When up to 20 cats go missing in a small village it’s the fault of the cats’ owners?

George was last seen by his owners on November 11 and fears are increasing over his safety

NEWS AND COMMENT – THORNHILL, CUMBRIA, UK: This is one of those stories that comes to the surface occasionally. Up to 20 cats (believed 9 confirmed) have gone missing from a small village of just 915 residents. When that many cats go missing from a smallish area there has to be somebody who is …

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Elderly woman taught her cats to steal from neighbors

Gregson trained her cats to steal from neighbors

In this astonishing (impossible) story, an 83-year-old woman taught her 65 cats to steal shiny objects from her neighbours. Investigators found $650,000 worth of jewellery and precious metal objects together with piles of worthless shiny objects in her home. The woman, Ms Ruth Gregson, admitted to training her cats to steal from neighbours. She …

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Pet theft is not trivial – on a par, say, with shoplifting

Dog on lead meets cat on lead outside see what happens

Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, has usefully written about pet theft in the UK for the Mail on Sunday. His article is published on the Mail Online website. Observers will have read the stories about the surge in pet thefts in the UK, mainly of dogs, due to the Covid-19 pandemic which encouraged …

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Cats to be microchipped by law in the UK as government cracks down on pet thefts

Microchipping cats to be compulsory under the law in the UK

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 …

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Companion animal online selling fraud is on the rise in the US

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Be aware of scammers selling companion dogs and cats online. The Better Business Bureau Scam Tracker which you can see by clicking here, tell us that there has been a substantial increase in fraudulent behaviour by scammers in America selling pets online. The number of complaints to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Scam Tracker …

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