Microchipping Cats

[Pedro]

So, from today it's an offence if you haven't microchipped your cat.

I really can't see a single prosecution being brought for this ever! "Oh, that's not my cat. It comes into the house now and then and I'll give it some food. But I actually think it maybe belongs to someone down the street".

However, if you are in the business of controlling vermin and you have a feral cat problem, then if you shoot or otherwise kill a cat that has been chipped, will you be in danger of being done for criminal damage now?

It'll be fine for Auntie Iris who has a house cat. Or Esmarelda Moonlight, the crazy cat woman over the road with 14 moggies, but that apart, I think it'll be farcical.

 

[Jelen]

Yes, it's another unenforceable law with holes in it that you could drive a bus through. Dogs are micro chipped yet not a single vet has ever checked to see whether I'm the rightful owner.
Oh, love your "Esmarelda Moonlight, the crazy cat woman over the road with 14 moggies" comment

 

[8x57]

I'd never heard anything about this until you just posted Pedro. I see that this law applies to England there is no mention of the rest of the U.K.
Makes you wonder about moggies that live on the border, and about someone from Scotland or Wales taking their cat on holiday with them to England doesn't it.

So another bleeding useless bit of legislation.

 

[8x57]

By way of finding out more about this I just asked my neighbour if she'd had her pussy microchipped, "No just pierced" was her reply.

 

[cjm1066]

It's a good law, while our politicians were debating this they weren't doing anything more stupid.

Seriously has anyone been prosecuted for not micro chipping a dog?

 

[Morkai]

It's a good law, while our politicians were debating this they weren't doing anything more stupid.

Seriously has anyone been prosecuted for not micro chipping a dog?

You dont even get prosecuted for shoplifting goods under £200, so I very much doubt it.

That's why I always think the idea of dog licences is dumb.

 

[8x57]

Seriously has anyone been prosecuted for not micro chipping a dog?

Local to us there have been a few prosecutions for not microchipping dogs usually relating to dangerous dogs or as additional charges related to illegal dog breeding.

Not recently but in previous years when taking the dogs for their annual health check/booster jabs the vet has always checked that their microchips haven't migrated elsewhere in the body and can still be scanned.