Missing Cat's microchip shows owner transferred.

[MadCatEnthusiast]

Hi,

My cat's missing went missing about a month ago. Looked up and down and sent flyers for him. No news.

Once we couldn't find him, my cousin then called the microchip company and reported the cat missing. Microchip company then are confused and then told her that someone transferred ownership the month the cat missing with "proof of record card with microchip label".

My cousin didn't sell the cat and she's had cat since kittenhood.

So what happened and what can we do

Ring the microchip company and get more details.

Did you originally register the cat?

My cousin did, she was the one who chipped him at his vets when he was a kitten

Family member?

Who is registered as the cats owner? You or your cousin?

That person needs to email the microchip company with the original registration information and demand all information they hold.

Call it a Subject Access Request and they should respond.

Link to gov guidance:

ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/your-right-to-get-copies-of-your-data/

That or your cousin sold the cat

I'm confused, you say 'my' cats missing then talk like it's your cousins cat?

Sorry, I meant my cousin's cat in the opening OP! It's not my cat. Typed too fast

But yeah, she's adamant that she didn't sell the cat so I'll get her to send the Subject Access Request

FWIW when I adopted DDog from a friend, he'd been passed around so much no one actually knew who he was registered to (friend had been told it had been transferred to him - it hadn't).

In the end, I had to get the vet to scan for the chip to get the number and identify the correct chip company (identichip - but there are quite a few companies out there), and then I had to send a form off to the chip company. They then sent off a letter to the address he was last registered to, and the previous owners had 28 days to respond if they objected (they didn't respond).

Has your cousin moved since she adopted the cat, and did she definitely get him registered to her current address?

Can she find her own copy of the original paperwork?