What affects us affects cats
The current conservative government is considering introducing legislation making it compulsory for all cat owners to microchip their cats subject to a fine of £500 if they fail to do so before the kitten is eight weeks old. This is part of a number of proposed bills to be introduced during the next parliament …
Make sure your cat’s microchip works Winnipeg Humane Society’s assistant manager, Anja Richter, said that a very small number of stray cats received at the shelter annually – about 12% in fact – are reunited with their owners. Even though cats are either microchipped or tattoo identified there are still barriers to reuniting pet …
This is the happy ending story of TWO cats who were reunited with their owner after they went missing from the backyard of their Blackpool, England home in late 2016. Karen Wiley, 35, was always afraid her cats Cookie and Star (they’re siblings) had been stolen from their home for breeding purposes since they both …
Experts say one in three cats will go missing. Microchipping will give a missing cat a 2,000 percent higher chance at being returned to the owner. In the case of Abby, it took 13 years for the lost cat to be reunited with her owner. Abby ended up in the care of Augusta Animal …
You would have thought that if you microchip your cat you will always be able to be reunited with him if he was lost and found. This is not necessarily the case. Firstly, micro-chipping is not, I’m told, evidence on its own of cat ownership. I presume it is evidence that supports ownership but …
In order to reduce the number of unwanted cats in various countries, the lawmakers are considering compulsory registration, micro-chipping and sterilisation. Will these laws work? To me, there seems to be two reasons why they may fail. The first is that there will always be a significant section of cat owners who will refuse …
This is a quick note to say that on 6 April 2016 microchipping of dogs will become compulsory under the Microchipping of Dogs (2015) Regulations. This law came into force on 24 February 2015 but it seems that the compulsory micro-chipping aspect of this legislation starts on 6 April 2016. The law concerns the …
At one time there were rumors that President Obama’s health reforms required that all Americans be microchipped to store personal data. I presume this also meant medical data. I am not sure. There were protests, understandably. We have barely got into the habit of microchipping domestic cats yet today we are seriously discussing microchipping …
