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As soon as i heard this 'news' story , I thought What are they trying to hide? Its the lobbying thing innit?
About time this happened. A pet animal that some owners don't take full responsibility for.
Good smoke screen for Tory Sleaze too.
They go better with pasta or rice surely?
Vague thread much?
Article planted by dogs I think - deflect, deflect, deflect. Dog thread - 12 pages and counting. Cat thread - 4 replies 🤔
how many cats will be taken to the vets to be chipped to find 3 already in there 🙂
Based on their ability to remove collars, refuse to take pills, avoid baths etc I'd put money on some cats being able to get the chip back out after they get home from the vets.
Pea or beans?
Brown sauce or red?
IS this a full fat Friday spin off and noone sent the memo ?
I'm disappointed, I was hoping for some chip stealing feline action. British seaside resorts afflicted with cats having got rid of the gull problem.
If all cats have to be chipped I give it a fortnight before someone brings out chip-reading perimeter control for you to contact the correct owner to come and remove their cat's deposits from the flower bed.
In fact, I'm gonna apply to go on Dragons Den with this one.
Anyone else not have the faintest clue what this is on about, or is it just me?
How hard is it to post some actual content? This isn't Facebook.
Anyone else not have the faintest clue what this is on about, or is it just me?
It's not just you, I have no idea either.
I have a cat.
I like chips.
I read the news.
I have no idea either.
£500 fine? For something that doesn't affect anyone else? They'll be fining people for not locking their bikes next.
Thanks Timbog I will remember to quote my sauces next time,at least they are actually using real cats to hide things now not just piling dead ones up.
Interesting Cod replacement though
Sauces for cats and chips? Ketchup and mayonnaise. Spicy BBQ if I'm feline saucy.
I've always chipped all of my pets, mainly cats, not for theft prevention but so I can identify it after it goes missing or dies. Handy for the catflap too! The trouble with using it as a theft deterrent/tracing device is that any stolen pets will be scanned for their chips and have them removed, not always safely, then replaced with another one. A bit like a cloned car I suppose.
Apparently now cheaper than fish and chips.
During the Siege of Paris, starving residents resorted to eating "street rabbits" (allegedly).
Larousse Gastronomie (at least the 1966 English edition) says cat has a flavour halfway between rabbit and hare. Even better, it tells us that a Rat is a “Rodent which was elevated to the rank of comestible during the siege of Paris” - my favourite line in the whole book.
I may have posted this before, apologies if so.
We have a cat and two kittens. The kittens are chipped, the cat is not. The cat, Mollie, is about 8 years old and is missing a hind leg. "Today" here is at the time of writing, which about a month ago.
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I took Mollie to the vet today as she's seemingly gaining weight whilst eating less. Hopefully nothing other than age / lifestyle but worth getting checked out just in case. Also we wanted to get her chipped. She's no longer an outdoors cat which is (a whole other story and) possibly contributory to the issue, but we figured we might as well get it all done in one drop whilst she's there for an MOT. Plus she can then play imported games, or something.
I warned the vet before I opened the kitty carrier. "Whatever you do, don't underestimate her. She hobbles around, but she's fast and she's powerful." The vet nodded. We've had this conversation before, casually on previous visits, though it's the first time they've actually met.
We let Mollie out. She sniffed about the table. Like a normal cat would. All was good. A cat relatively on the smaller side despite her recent weight gain, limping about the place.
Then she abruptly leapt for freedom. The vet just about caught her and I was already in place underneath the edge of the table like backstop having seen this particular inevitability coming. Vet, cat and I all exchanged looks. An understanding was realised.
The vet deployed a nurse. I gave the nurse the same warning. She said, "I'm a professional cat-holder". I sceptically but silently snorted to myself and replied "I admire your optimism".
The vet tried to take bloods. Mollie did not want to have bloods taken. There were struggles. "Gosh," remarked the nurse, "she's really strong for her size isn't she!" You reckon? If you'd lost a leg, you don't figure that the other one might compensate for that a bit? Plus, y'know, I did warn you.
They released her for a rethink and she dived off the table and ran over to me for strokes rather than to tear out my throat, which was good. (Joking aside I was really happy and reassured about this, she sought me out for comfort several times rather than developing a grudge for my bringing her here in the first place.) We gave her a bit of time to chill and have a bit of a sniff about.
Fetch the Towel of +1 Cat Wrapping!
On direction from the vet I picked her up again - often an achievement in itself even under normal circumstances - then they bundled her up in the towel, and this time it went better. Professionalism and experience prevailed, Molie's front right leg got a haircut, bloods were taken and Mols was mostly good aside from a little bit wriggly.
Then came the microchipping.
Our Professional Cat Holder was holding the cat. The vet got Mollie's scruff in one hand and the syringe in the other. It was all going so well. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
In hindsight, I think they'd just got a bit complacent. The cat was relatively calm but the towel was now hanging somewhat loose around our Mollie. I saw it coming a mile off. They'd relaxed, they thought they'd seen the end game. I was just right on the cusp of saying something about the towel like "you might want to secure that, it's not gonna work". I hesitated because, well, I don't want to be condescending, I'm sure this is their bread and butter and they know what they're doing. Should I intervene?
The vet got the needle to Mollie's scruff and started pressing and the cat spontaneously ****ing exploded, went up like a goddamn land mine. A good half metre vertically clear of the table, three legs all in three different directions, our poor little disabled kittie a whirring blur of claws and teeth and spittle like that scene in Attack of the Clones where young Yoda finally kicks off.
They let her go to have a bit of a run around and a calm down. The vet explained to me that mostly, as demonstrated when I had the kittens done there just a few weeks ago, because of the location of the injection most cats don't muff despite it being a big needle.
Mollie didn't get chipped today, I've to go back another time. But I did get to say "I told you so."