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May 25, 2023
Micro-chipping your cat is considered to be the default situation in developed countries in 2023. It’s a necessity. It’ll become a legal obligation in the UK. That’s all well and good. But micro-chipping doesn’t...
January 31, 2023
Sometimes people living in suburbia see what they believe to be a friendly, domestic cat who looks lost. The cat comes up to them looking for company. They are still there in the afternoon...
August 6, 2022
The caption to the picture below on the Reddit.com website is: “Our cat went missing October 2020. The animal shelter called and he is home. Pinch me I’m dreaming”. Another wandering cat is found...
October 2, 2021
UK – NEWS AND COMMENT: Natalie Bennett is a star because she does something that a lot of people can’t do. She recovers the dead bodies of cats hit by cars and reunites them...
June 11, 2021
We know how indoor/outside cats wander into neighbours’ gardens. They don’t go that far very often. And in this instance an elderly male cat (19) with a female name, Milly, wandered into a neighbour’s...
October 3, 2020
Giles Coren was let down by a veterinarian who did not notify him that he had found Coren’s lost cat after scanning the microchip and discovering that Coren was the owner.
July 27, 2020
It is possible to check a cat for a microchip at home. You don’t have to rely on a veterinarian. I am referring to the situation when you find a stray cat and you...
November 28, 2019
Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society quite correctly and wisely managed to create a media frenzy of sorts at Portland International Airport (presumed) as Sasha, a placid cat, was reunited with her human...
November 22, 2019
This is the happy ending story of a 19-year-old cat who was recently reunited with his owner seven years after the cat went missing. May 30, 2012, was the last time Robert saw his...
October 30, 2019
Thanks to the power of social media networking, a Mount Vernon cat named Baxter was stolen during a carjacking on Saturday has been found and reunited with his family, CBS Baltimore reported. Click here...
October 28, 2019
This is the happy ending story of a Payson, Utah kitten who ran out of the house one morning and ended up taking a road trip that spanned 15 hours while underneath his owner’s...
July 26, 2019
INTRO: this a long running saga which began with a boy in Vancouver stealing a cat from a porch while a colleague on a bike waits in the background. There was a lot discussion...
May 29, 2019
American trucker, Nick, lost his cat companion who travels with him but is now reunited and they have become celebrities.
May 21, 2019
A companion cat has been reunited with his veteran owner after being accidentally trapped for 21 days inside a camper in Los Osos, California. Storm spent 21 days without food or water after unknowingly...
April 13, 2019
What is the ideal hold time for stray cats at animal shelters? I am genuinely asking for the input of visitors. The New Erie County legislature passed a law last Thursday which shortens the...
