{"id":461621,"date":"2026-09-12T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461621\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:56:13","slug":"microchip-led-san-diego-humane-society-to-colbys-family-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461621\/","title":{"rendered":"Microchip led San Diego Humane Society to Colby&#8217;s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SAN DIEGO (CNN) \u2013 Colby the Maltipoo has a story to tell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pooch is back with his San Diego family after going missing for almost three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Colby was found late Tuesday night abandoned and covered in fleas in a parking lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The San Diego Humane Society responded to a call about Colby, then scanned him for a microchip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Colby had one, and officers were able to use it to track his family down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A missing dog was reunited with his family after nearly three years, thanks to a microchip.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789214173_361_SKRRP55ETZF47POCSQACLKDFSU.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A missing dog was reunited with his family after nearly three years, thanks to a microchip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/sdhumane.org\/heartwarming-reunion-dog-missing-since-2023-reunited-with-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/sdhumane.org\/heartwarming-reunion-dog-missing-since-2023-reunited-with-family\/\">dog had been missing<\/a> for so long, the family had to get all the dog supplies they had gotten rid of when they thought Colby was gone forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That gave the San Diego Humane Society time to give Colby a bath, vaccines and a needed neutering before sending him home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As for where Colby\u2019s adventures took him over the past three years, only he knows.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (CNN) \u2013 Colby the Maltipoo has a story to tell. The pooch is back with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[105535,7,15443,2899,11021,181967,41139,155395,1770,3137,74,76,75,464],"class_list":["post-461621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-abandoned","tag-california","tag-diego","tag-dog","tag-found","tag-humane","tag-lost","tag-microchip","tag-missing","tag-san","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}