How many folk will be goung aking with this. I do agree with it to an extent, but as my girl is 16, and a house cat, i wont be having her done. I think anyone who lets theirs outside should do as so easy to reunite if lost, or inforned if tragedy has happened to them |
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It applies to outdoor and indoors, although I have seen elderly cats can get an exemption from the vets due to age (not sure how true this is).
Both mine are indoor cats, still have mine done, we have pet health club for both of them (vaccines yearly, 6 monthly check ups, nail clippings, flea and worm treatment, plus a microchip voucher, etc) and both insured, we pay a pretty penny for our babies but it's money well spent x |
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Mine is already microchipped & it’s not even compulsory in Wales yet but as a responsible owner I would do anything for my little cat she don’t go far but if she ever did it gives me peace of mind |
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My cat is 13 now and I had him chipped from when he was a kitten. He is an outdoors cat and it just gives me that peace of mind if anything happened to him. Plus it's very handy for the chip operated cat flap that prevents unwanted late night house parties.
What I specifically like about this I suspect it will result wider presence and use of chip readers by different agencies. Hopefully resulting in more identification lost, injured or decreased cats.
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By (user no longer on site) 24 weeks ago
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I once saw a cat get run over and took it to the vets. Sadly it didn't make it ... but thankfully it had a microchip so it's owners could be told quickly.
I think it's important to link a cat to its owner especially when they go missing or someone takes them. |
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A few cats moved into our old stables a year ago (old farm, no horses). We feed them, but they're not really our cats. One will draw blood if you go near her, one keeps her distance but 2 others are friendly enough to stroke. We did catch them and get then neutered/spayed, but as I say, they're not our cats, they don't live in the house, so they won't be chipped. |
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"How many folk will be goung aking with this. I do agree with it to an extent, but as my girl is 16, and a house cat, i wont be having her done. I think anyone who lets theirs outside should do as so easy to reunite if lost, or inforned if tragedy has happened to them"
Why not arrange for her to be chipped when she next has vaccines or whatever, and you're at the vet anyway? Something could happen and she gets out and lost. |
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"How many folk will be goung aking with this. I do agree with it to an extent, but as my girl is 16, and a house cat, i wont be having her done. I think anyone who lets theirs outside should do as so easy to reunite if lost, or inforned if tragedy has happened to them
Why not arrange for her to be chipped when she next has vaccines or whatever, and you're at the vet anyway? Something could happen and she gets out and lost. "
I totally get what youre saying, but she has no interest in goung out. I have a catio on back of the house, and when i open window, she doesnt bother. She didnt come near me for 4 months after i had to force a pill down her, and i saw how much discomfort mums dog was in when done, so i wint put mine through it. My boy was done as a kitten, at the time he had the snip so was under anyway. |
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By *ullyMan 24 weeks ago
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Clearly some anonymous waste of space politician has acquired shares in a company making these "microchips", no other sane logical reason, as far as I recall cats in the U.K had/have what was known as a "roving commission" Thereby basically they are free to go anywhere, without complaint or hindrance. It is not required to report to he police if one is run over unlike a dog, there is a legal requirement to report it to the police. |
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"Clearly some anonymous waste of space politician has acquired shares in a company making these "microchips", no other sane logical reason, as far as I recall cats in the U.K had/have what was known as a "roving commission" Thereby basically they are free to go anywhere, without complaint or hindrance. It is not required to report to he police if one is run over unlike a dog, there is a legal requirement to report it to the police."
Maybe not (I don't know if it is or isn't) but introducing this new law, will help owners be reunited with lost cats and as sad as this is, deceased ones. I've lost count of the number of posts I've seen about cats been run over etc, taken to a vets and not microchipped, now owners can have peace of mind. I think it's a great idea and a responsible one. And I do believe that if a cat is run over they should get the same treatment as you would a dog. |
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By *ullyMan 24 weeks ago
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Don't shoot the messenger please.
It's laws or rules not of my making. I believe the Roaming commission and no need to report goes way way back when there were a huge amount of feral cats and they kept the mice and rat population down.
Every now and then we get some dip stick politician find some ancient petty law or rule about something then makes a meal of it for personal attention I guess. Like the effing plonker that has got pigeon shooting banned unless licenced. Now town centres inner cities and a lot of the countryside is sinking under the weight of guano! Some towns are now paying Falconers to roam the streets scaring them off. I'ts pitiful given the state of the country! |
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By *.T.Man 24 weeks ago
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I had one of my cats chipped. She was killed yards from the house and taken to the the local vet who incidentally were the ones to chip her.
After a week of no sign of her, checking the local vets, giving a detailed description of her (she had unique markings as a Turkish Van), the vet rang back saying they had a cat in that may match her description. They warned me she had been kept cool in a mortuary chiller.
I went in and the poor thing had been frozen. I was devastated.
Brought her home in tears with my coat wrapped round her.
If the vet had actually checked their own records, I could have had her home much earlier.
All my other cats are chipped, but no guarantee that the vet can find it, even if they chipped the cat themselves. |
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"...I believe the Roaming commission and no need to report goes way way back when there were a huge amount of feral cats... "
Most people would be shocked at the amount of feral cats in this country (community cat is the current politically correct term  ). Allotments, golf courses, roadside verges, all those near to me have colonies. There's even a small group in my old stables. |
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"Clearly some anonymous waste of space politician has acquired shares in a company making these "microchips", no other sane logical reason, as far as I recall cats in the U.K had/have what was known as a "roving commission" Thereby basically they are free to go anywhere, without complaint or hindrance. It is not required to report to he police if one is run over unlike a dog, there is a legal requirement to report it to the police.
Maybe not (I don't know if it is or isn't) but introducing this new law, will help owners be reunited with lost cats and as sad as this is, deceased ones. I've lost count of the number of posts I've seen about cats been run over etc, taken to a vets and not microchipped, now owners can have peace of mind. I think it's a great idea and a responsible one. And I do believe that if a cat is run over they should get the same treatment as you would a dog."
Exactly this. And to stop them from just being thrown in the back of the bin lorry... Which is what happened to one of mine, as the council didn't use to check cats. He was chipped, so we could have said a proper good bye to him |
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