Willow the cat continued her media tour of adorableness by speaking to additional media outlets after her Today Show appearance yesterday. The feline, who went missing from her Colorado home five years ago only to be dropped off at a Manhattan animal shelter last week (it's believed Willow was chilling in Brooklyn these past years), was reunited with her Colorado humans, thanks to the microchip the Squires family placed in her. more ›

While we think we've solved the mystery of how Willow, the Colorado cat who went missing five years ago only to surface in New York this week, traveled to the Big Apple, there are still many questions. Like how could Willow's microchip, with information about her Colorado home, not be detected? Well, there are some theories. more ›

After telling us that Willow the Colorado cat had been living in Brooklyn, our tipster added, "If either of my cats disappeared for years I would just want to know what happened and that he or she was loved... Please contact her Colorado family!" So we did: We got in touch with Jamie Squires who said she was "grateful" to Willow's New York owner for taking care of her. And how does Squires know Willow was taken care of? "She's fat!" Squires joked, referring to how Willow, a small calico, was five-and-a-half pounds when she ran off and is now clocking in a healthy seven pounds. more ›

Willow's NY owner "fell in love with her on a ski trip when she was a stray in Colorado, and flew her back to Brooklyn, thinking she was too amazing to leave behind." more ›

Here at Gothamist we love a good lost dog story as much as the next blog, so we were happy to read another tale of a pup reunited with their person in the Post today. Earlier this month a 58-year-old man named Bruce, who didn't give his last name, went shopping at the Bowery Whole Foods but left his 5-year-old chihuahua Henry in a fancy dog carrier inside his Porsche Cayenne. When Bruce got back to his car though, it had been broken into and the canine and its carrier was gone (as was a laptop). "He had never left my side since he was 3 months old," Bruce told the paper. more ›

Here's another happy ending for a pet-with-microchip story, courtesy the San Francisco Chronicle. Last week a black cat, almost completely blind, was spotted by animal control officers wandering along 110th Street. They took it to the shelter, and after scanning its microchip, found the registered owner: the San Francisco SPCA! more ›

On our way into the office this morning we found this ravenous little guy running around in the street and eating drywall that was crumbled up on the curb. So we fashioned a leash with a T-shirt and brought him inside. But what then? Following the advice of Patrick Kwan at the Humane Society of the U.S., we took the pup to get scanned at the local vet, to find out if he had a microchip. Lo and behold, he does! more ›

Used to be dogs who got lost would use their instinctual GPS to find their way home, even across great distances. Now, thanks to technology, lazy hounds can just wander aimlessly around until someone with a scanner picking reads the microchip embedded in their flesh. Which is how a Long Island dog who went missing back in 2006 found his way back to his owners earlier this month. more ›

There are few things more heartwarming than hearing about a dog who was returned to his rightful owners after 5 years (and over a distance of 850 miles, thanks to a microchip), and the press naturally descended upon Rocco the beagle. The dog had gotten out of his Queens backyard, and it's suggested someone in the military took the dog from the Big Apple down to Georgia, where he was found. Eleven-year-old Natalie Villacis, who was 5 when Rocco went missing, told the Post , "I don't think he recognized me, but I told him I loved him as much as always. Rocco seemed a little confused, but happy. He looked at me like, 'I don't know who you are, but I love you, too.'" AW! more ›

Remember the old days when dogs would bolt from the car during a road trip, only to follow their uncanny sense of direction to find their way home across hundreds of miles? Thanks to microchip implants, today’s 21st century canine can now rely on technology to do the work. That’s how Rocco, a beagle who disappeared from a Queens backyard in 2003, was located and returned to his owners last weekend after being found in Georgia! Now if the government would just start implanting these chips in humans, stories like these would be a thing of the past. more ›