Gimli The Cheshire Oaks Cat

[muddy]

I visited my sons once when they had a place together to find a beautiful Siamese cat asleep on their sofa .
It's not ours they said it's the lady who has the pub up the road .
They never fed it and were out most days but the cat just kept coming back .
I think it wanted peace and quiet .

[Scrumpy]

I think you will find that a paper collar is a temporary thing.. That is attached to a cat you think might be lost.. If and when the owner sees it they will contact (whoever) to let them know that the cat belongs to them and is not a stray or lost..

[JBR]

I think you will find that a paper collar is a temporary thing.. That is attached to a cat you think might be lost.. If and when the owner sees it they will contact (whoever) to let them know that the cat belongs to them and is not a stray or lost..

We have attempted to apply traditional cat collars to both of our present cats, but they hate them and eventually wriggle out of them.
A paper collar wouldn't last two seconds.

[Dextrous63]

In this day and age, cats tend to be chipped.  Borrowing a scanner is quite possible (but only the owner of the scanner will have access to the database, for obvious data protection reasons).  If one can get close enough to put a paper collar on, then one is clearly close enough to scan the pussycat.

[Mups]

In this day and age, cats tend to be chipped. 
Borrowing a scanner is quite possible (but only the owner of the scanner will have access to the database, for obvious data protection reasons).  If one can get close enough to put a paper collar on, then one is clearly close enough to scan the pussycat.

Yes,  in fact it became Law for them to be chipped last summer time.

I wouldn't have thought many people other than Vets, and maybe animal charities kept scanners though?

[klondike]

I think we will probably have to be chipped next year. That new fangled ID thing Starmer says we all must have so he can spy on us and control our lives.

[Dextrous63]

I thought that we'd all been given nano chips when we got vaccinated which meant we've already been chipped and our thoughts already monitored.

[klondike]

The company the government picked to supply them charged for 5G chips but only supplied 3G cups and the 3G network is shutting down

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/coverage-and-speeds/3g-switch-off

[Dextrous63]

Next, you'll be telling me that they've signed up with wanadoo for their email accounts

[klondike]

I think it was a Chinese company YonSohnCo or something like that.

[Dextrous63]

Wasn't that a song by the Goons?

[Alex]

Yes,  in fact it became Law for them to be chipped last summer time.

I wouldn't have thought many people other than Vets, and maybe animal charities kept scanners though?

You're right Mups, usually cats are taken to a vet to read a chip, but animal charities and their helpers can also do it.

Gimli's owner posted a photo of her today, she's starting to settle down

[Dextrous63]

Missed your post Mups.  There are indeed cat charities that will lend you a scanner.  They did when we had a stray kitten stay with us for a few days.  I went to pick it up, scanned the kitten (to no avail- possibly too young to have been chipped yet) and, if a chip was found, the person I borrowed the scanner from would have checked the database and we could have started the process to return the little fluffy one.