Missing California woman Heidi Planck: LAPD obtain security footage from building where dog was discovered
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Los Angeles detectives have obtained security camera footage from a residential building in downtown LA where officials found a dog belonging to missing woman Heidi Planck.
Planck, a 39-year-old mother, was reported her missing to the Los Angeles Police Department on Oct. 20 after she failed to pick up her 10-year-old son from school, but she was last seen on Oct. 17, when she abruptly left her son's football game in Downey before it was over.
The mother's dog was discovered on the 28th floor of a high-rise residential building in downtown LA, without any of Planck's belongings, hours after Planck was last seen on Oct. 17. Her ex-husband, Jim Wayne, traced the dog's microchip to the apartment complex after she was reported missing.
"Traced the dog's microchip to the apartment complex"? That's not how a pet microchip works; they're not GPS or tracking devices... they are passive RFID devices. There are pet GPS devices, but they're not the same thing as the microchip used to identify a found pet, and they're certainly not implanted.
"Traced the dog's microchip to the apartment complex"? That's not how a pet microchip works; they're not GPS or tracking devices... they are passive RFID devices. There are pet GPS devices, but they're not the same thing as the microchip used to identify a found pet, and they're certainly not implanted.
You’re right, that doesn’t make any sense. Both of our cats are micro chipped, but we can’t use it to locate them in anyway. I reported one of my cats as lost once to the company that you subscribe to that makes the chips, but all they can do is alert your local shelters and vet offices, and they put together a missing pet poster with the animals picture that you print out from home. I wish they could use the devices to see where your pet actually is.
It’s certainly possible that they had some other kind of GPS tracker on the dog. We tried one of those on our cats, but they were much too big for cats and they drove them crazy until they finally both successfully managed to get them off somewhere and we never found them. So they really weren’t very good trackers either because I couldn’t locate them once they got them off.
You’re right, that doesn’t make any sense. Both of our cats are micro chipped, but we can’t use it to locate them in anyway. I reported one of my cats as lost once to the company that you subscribe to that makes the chips, but all they can do is alert your local shelters and vet offices, and they put together a missing pet poster with the animals picture that you print out from home. I wish they could use the devices to see where your pet actually is.
It’s certainly possible that they had some other kind of GPS tracker on the dog. We tried one of those on our cats, but they were much too big for cats and they drove them crazy until they finally both successfully managed to get them off somewhere and we never found them. So they really weren’t very good trackers either because I couldn’t locate them once they got them off.
What is the point of them, then? if it's just your contact info, a tag would do that.
What is the point of them, then? if it's just your contact info, a tag would do that.
They do have the tags, but sometimes they do lose their collars. In fact I keep a supply of about four extra engraved tags for each of them, along with collars, for the inevitable time they will come home without their collars. That’s the problem with breakaway collars, they break away so the cats won’t choke if they get caught on some thing, but they are also easily lost. The micro chips are supposed to be so that if they end up at a shelter or something with no identification, the shelter can’t see that the pet belongs to someone and calls the owner. Extra layer of safety I guess to make sure your pet isn’t euthanized before you find it. It’s only about 20 or $30 a year for each of them, so it’s worth it to me. And they really were wonderful and caring when I thought one of our cats was lost. I thought it was a great service that they do the legwork of alerting local animal shelters and vets offices and making the lost pet posters as well.
A random person who finds your animal though can’t do anything with the microchip you need a special reader that I guess that they have at vets offices and shelters.
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A woman found Heidis dog and had the children scanned. Then she went on the website and left a message under the dogs number. When the ex husband went to the website he was able to read the message and contact the woman who found the dog.
Chips are better than tags because thieves remove collars or sometimes they come off.
It’s only about 20 or $30 a year for each of them, so it’s worth it to me. And they really were wonderful and caring when I thought one of our cats was lost. I thought it was a great service that they do the legwork of alerting local animal shelters and vets offices and making the lost pet posters as well.
A random person who finds your animal though can’t do anything with the microchip you need a special reader that I guess that they have at vets offices and shelters.
You can also just chip and register at a low cost and not pay annually.
So the dog was found and actually the chip meant they traced the ex, not that the dog was found because of the chip. That makes more sense. Just faulty writing in that sentence.
What is the point of them, then? if it's just your contact info, a tag would do that.
if the tag is missing or they lose their collar, etc.
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