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Importance of microchips in helping reunite pets with their owners

Importance of microchips in helping reunite pets with their owners

We often hear stories in the media of missing pets who are reunited weeks, months and years later.  Helena, our nurse, has her own story to tell too.

Nora the black cat from York who was missing for 4 years: https://yorkmix.com/missing-for-4-years-but-now-nora-has-returned-home/;

Shadow from York, reunited after 10 years missing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-64311790

and Toby from Nuneaton missing for 11 years: https://www.cats.org.uk/mediacentre/pressreleases/cat-presumed-dead-found-five-miles-from-home-11-years-later

And countless others, including from our own experience of cats being brought in as strays, sometimes injured where it is even more important to be able to contact owners. Sadly sometimes it is to contact an owner to inform them that their cat has sadly passed away and been brought in by a kind member of the public. Councils too scan for microchips of deceased cats they find.

Nurse Helena’s own cat Meg went missing for over a year and she had assumed the worst. Then a combination of social media and her microchip meant she was reunited. She had been living less than a mile away at Burnby Hall Gardens where she was watched over by various people, most of whom assumed she had a house she went back to daily! Someone eventually posted her on the local facebook page which led to Meg being taken to her to the local vets who scanned her and called Helena with the good news. …

Helena has since (with tears!) rehomed Meg to a home where she will be the only cat as it became apparent she didn’t like living with other cats. Helena gets regular updates with photos and Meg is living a much better life than a stray. Her microchip definitely helped her find that second ‘forever’ home.

Importance of microchips in helping reunite pets with their owners

Importance of microchips in helping reunite pets with their owners

We often hear stories in the media of missing pets who are reunited weeks, months and years later.  Helena, our nurse, has her own story to tell too.

Nora the black cat from York who was missing for 4 years: https://yorkmix.com/missing-for-4-years-but-now-nora-has-returned-home/;

Shadow from York, reunited after 10 years missing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-64311790

and Toby from Nuneaton missing for 11 years: https://www.cats.org.uk/mediacentre/pressreleases/cat-presumed-dead-found-five-miles-from-home-11-years-later

And countless others, including from our own experience of cats being brought in as strays, sometimes injured where it is even more important to be able to contact owners. Sadly sometimes it is to contact an owner to inform them that their cat has sadly passed away and been brought in by a kind member of the public. Councils too scan for microchips of deceased cats they find.

Nurse Helena’s own cat Meg went missing for over a year and she had assumed the worst. Then a combination of social media and her microchip meant she was reunited. She had been living less than a mile away at Burnby Hall Gardens where she was watched over by various people, most of whom assumed she had a house she went back to daily! Someone eventually posted her on the local facebook page which led to Meg being taken to her to the local vets who scanned her and called Helena with the good news. …

Helena has since (with tears!) rehomed Meg to a home where she will be the only cat as it became apparent she didn’t like living with other cats. Helena gets regular updates with photos and Meg is living a much better life than a stray. Her microchip definitely helped her find that second ‘forever’ home.