Stolen Dog Reunites With Owners Thanks To Microchip Technology

A Maryland couple has been reunited with their 2-year-old Yorkie after he was stolen from their Capitol Heights yard last November.

Constance and Michael White thought they had seen the last of their beloved "Denali" until they received a call from the Washington Humane Society with news they could hardly believe.

"Those dogs are very popular so I really didn't think I was going to find him," Constance White.

Like many pet owners these days, the White family turned to technology in the form of a microchip implanted in their dog. It is a tiny transponder about the size of a grain of rice that uses radio frequency waves to transmit information about the pet and owner information.

No one knows who stole "Denali" or why he turned up in the District months later, but the Washington Humane Society was able to retrieve the owner information from the chip implanted in "Denali" and reunited him with his family.