Rejected petition Make Microchips for Cats Compulsory

So many cats are found as strays on the streets or can indeed get lost simply by getting in a delivery van. Finding the owner of a missing cat would be much easier if cats were, by law, microchipped the same as Dogs.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104904

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Date submitted 11 August 2015
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