Submitted on Friday 14th May 2021
Rejected on Friday 21st May 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Vets to scan ALL cats brought in, not just "strays"
We want to ensure that EVERY cat brought into a veterinary surgery, regardless of the reason, is scanned for a microchip to confirm that they do belong to the person who brought them in.
By making this law, it would reduce the number of cat thefts, strays/missing cats and heartbroken families.
Most vets will only scan cats for a microchip when brought in as a "stray" or lost & found.
There has been a significant rise in cat thefts, where people will assume a cat is a stray and start to feed it. The majority of these cats are in fact well fed and have a loving family who are distraught at their absence.
It will soon be mandatory to microchip your cat for this reason, so why are they not all being scanned? Let's get this passed and return 100s of stolen cats to their original owners!
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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We think this petition is similar:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/561171
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