tiny dancer wrote:

Our's are also. No matter how long a time they have been gone. the
contract signed says 'they must be returned to us if for any reason they
are no longer wanted at their adoptive homes.' They have all been
micro-chipped and neutered.

Yes!!!! That is definitely the way to do it. I am a BIG fan
of having puppies chipped before they leave their breeders,
and wish that both AKC and animal control authorities required
it *sigh*.

Here's an incident that happened to one of my rescue buddies.
She got a dog back after he ended up in a shelter becauses they
were able to trace his microchip back to her - and boy, was
she EVER pissed. I knew how carefully she screened her homes
(actually the way I'd met her was that I'd adopted from her)
and she used a contract requiring return of the dog if the
owners could not keep it for any reason.

So she hunted down the people who had adopted the dog from
her and wanted to know what had happened. It turned out that
they'd decided after a while that they didn't want to keep the
dog after all and gave him to some friends (in violation of
the contract, of course). The friends also got bored with
him fairly quickly and ended up just letting him run loose.
They didn't even bother checking the shelter when he failed
to return home.

So that microchip ended up saving that dog's bacon. No matter
how good potential homes seem, and how many promises they make,
you can never be 100% sure they'll follow through later on down
the road :-(.

Dianne