Tim Miles, chief veterinary adviser for Britain's RSPCA, said micro-chipping dogs was a better way of keeping track of dogs.

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Ch Insp Tim Mairs said that some rescuers had walked for miles through heavy snow, facing "possibly 12 to 18ft drifts of snow" in some places, to reach housebound people.

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Tim Whitehurst from Eaton Park said it took him an hour to travel three miles (5km) to work on Monday morning.

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Tim Whitehurst from Eaton Park said it had taken him an hour to travel 3 miles (5km).

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"Folks, just bear with us, we have a lot of homework to do, " Chardon Police Chief Tim McKenna said at an afternoon news conference in Chardon, a town of 5, 100 about 30 miles east of Cleveland.

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