So people who may have lost their pets and their homes, still trying to get back into their homes, will never know their animals are across the country?
"These are the silent victims," Helen Woodward Animal Center President Mike Arms said. "There are shelters that have been devastated by Hurricane Sandy, without electricity, without supplies.
Sometimes they reconnect a few months later after the dust clears. Microchips are a beautiful thing.
These animals were already in shelters when the storm hit.