A Michael Broad Blog
We all know that sometimes domestic cats just wander away from their home. Cats get lost but it is not always because they’ve been stuck in a shed or transported away from their home by a van into which they’d climbed. Sometimes they just wander off which tells us that, depending upon the cat’s …
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 garden to sunbathe and died peacefully in the sun. Milly had a good life at his home near Kingsway in …
It appears that compulsory microchipping of cats in the UK is to become a reality. All cats will be microchipped. There’s been a long discussion proposing the compulsory microchipping of domestic cats in the UK in order to catch up with the already compulsory micro-chipping of dogs. The pandemic has created a surge in …
You probably know that the UK government is planning to introduce compulsory domestic cat microchipping in England. The advantages are numerous and the difficulties are known such as enforcing such a law. Well, this is a chance for the British taxpayer and cat owner to provide the government with their views in an online …
Unsurprisingly and unfortunately British veterinarians, through their spokesperson, have responded negatively to the current news that the UK government plans to introduce compulsory micro-chipping across the nation. The reason why they reject the plan is because they don’t want to be involved in enforcing it. They want to do their work which is to …
It’s reported today that the UK government plans to introduce compulsory micro-chipping for cats from next year with a fine of £500 for non-compliance. This has been planned for a long time and debated a lot. It is said that, in the UK, 26% of companion animals are not microchipped and that 80% of …
Biscuit went missing about three years ago, shortly after his then owner, Keith Bigland’s mother, died. Biscuit was seen “fleeing” his home on a CCTV camera at 4 a.m. on December 1, 2017. Mr Bigland searched high and low for him for months. The cat is his last connection to his mother. He was …
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.
