9 Months

If it's the first of the month, there must be another anniversary of Izzie's departure, because she sure doesn't seem to be coming back.

But really, the microchip does offer hope. If the problem all along is that she was picked up by someone passing through, maybe traveling on 460 by pass, then the local efforts were never going to do much. Obviously, it wouldn't be that someone who picked her up is going to take her now to have her scanned for a chip; she's probably been to the vet, maybe several times, if she was picked up and found a new home back then. But there's always a possibility of her making another exit froma new home, and THEN being scanned for a chip. It's happened to plenty of other dogs this long and longer after a dog disappeared, so why not to Izzie?