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IndyOp

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3. Unless you are certain that the cat was abandoned, I'd

Reply to Hotler (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2019, 01:23 PM

Nov 2019

reach out to the owners. The vet will look up his chip number and see if the previous owners provided up-to-date contact information. If so, the vet can contact them. Maybe the vet could sort of feel the owners out - see if they emphatically state that the cat was lost and offer to come to get the cat immediately and show photos of happy cat that reveal cat was treated well.

Maybe you can ask the vet how this could be done so that cat only returns to owners if owners deserve to have the cat back...?

Good luck.

If my cat wandered off, I'd be desperate to hear about him.

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I was adopted by a stray cat awhile back.... [View all] Hotler Nov 2019 OP

If they chipped the cat greymattermom Nov 2019 #1

Check the owners out first. TruckFump Nov 2019 #2

Unless you are certain that the cat was abandoned, I'd IndyOp Nov 2019 #3

How long ago? My Tico was a feral that I adopted 5 and a half years ago (born feral). I tblue37 Nov 2019 #4

I lost two cats in 2018. iscooterliberally Nov 2019 #5

Sorry. This is a tough situation. That said, the odds that someone would pay to chip an animal hlthe2b Nov 2019 #6

As an animal rescuer, my highest priority is the animal. When you find a chipped pet Karadeniz Nov 2019 #7

What makes you think the cat was abandoned? lettucebe Nov 2019 #8

Ask them. If they don't want him, adopt. shenmue Nov 2019 #9

Please don't leave the owners wondering Boomer Nov 2019 #10

I would try to contact them radical noodle Nov 2019 #11

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