Cats, dogs to need chipping
This item on microchipping pet animals notes that it will be obligatory after this year to have cats and dogs microchipped. The bargain clinic described costs $40 per animal, whereas it’s normally $90 at the vet, according to the piece.
jeather 15:23 on 2019-05-20 Permalink
“Même au niveau légal, si tu perds ton chat et que ton voisin décide d’adopter ton chat, il a le droit techniquement s’il n’a pas de micropuce.”
This isn’t how the law works. It might be difficult to prove the non-microchipped cat is yours, but that doesn’t mean your neighbour is allowed to steal it.
Ephraim 17:59 on 2019-05-20 Permalink
Is it really stolen if it leaves of it’s own accord? Does the animal itself have rights or are they a possession. (Just asking for a friend.)
Kate 18:27 on 2019-05-20 Permalink
I’ve heard of cats voluntarily decamping from one household into another that they found more congenial, but usually that’s because the original owners weren’t very attentive anyway.
Blork 09:49 on 2019-05-21 Permalink
That’s how we got our black cat about 15 years ago. He was a kitten and his people left for vacation in the middle of winter without bringing him inside. To be fair, (a) he loved being outside, even in winter, and (b) they looked for him and he just wasn’t coming home and they had to get to the airport.
We found all this out a few months after we adopted him (he showed up at our door one cold night around midnight; we took him in so he wouldn’t freeze and he never left). My sweetie was shovelling the driveway one day and the cat was with her playing in the snow. A car drove past, stopped, backed up, and the driver claimed it was his cat. (Black cats are a dime a dozen but this guy has distinctive behaviour.) He caught my sweetie off-guard and ended up leaving with the cat. Fortunately (for us, and the cat) he brought the cat back an hour later when his wife basically explained to him that he was our cat now, as we were providing a good home, had neutered him and gotten him the various inoculations, etc.
OTOH, even if he hadn’t brought him back, the cat would have come back on his own because he was pretty happy living with us and when he makes up his mind, that’s that.
dwgs 19:50 on 2019-05-21 Permalink
Our neighbours have two cats who get fed wet food and one of the humans is incapable of saying no to any cat so our beast spends a good part of his time next door, he basically comes home to sleep. The neighbours will soon be decamping to the cottage for the summer so we’ll get our cat back full time until sometime in October when they move back to the city.