ARE YOU FEEDING WHAT YOU THINK MAY BE A STRAY, OR LOST, CAT?

If you have a cat living with you which you think is either lost or abandoned, if you are feeding what you think may be a stray cat, or you know of anyone else with such a cat please report it to us.  Do not assume it has no owner, whatever state it may be in. It may simply be lost, and could have been lost months previously. It is not unknown for cats to get into cars, removal vans, and so on, and be transported miles from their homes.

We have hundreds of lost cats on our Lost and Found Register and the number increases on a daily basis.  Most of the cats who go missing must be out there somewhere and, although we do manage to reunite quite a few with their owners, most of them are taken in by well meaning people, but are never actually reported.

Some of you will already know how distressing it is to lose a cat, and others can imagine. There is nothing worse than not knowing what has happened to your pet - the imagination works over-time. How would you feel if someone in the next village, or on the next estate, found your cat, and kept it without every reporting it?

Please help us to reunite more cats with their owners in the future by phoning me and reporting them.

One of our Cat Workers will arrange to visit, at your convenience, to gain as much information as possible. We establish what sex the cat is, have a look at its teeth, to give us an idea of age, take a photograph, scan it for a possible microchip and, if the cat is with you only some of the time, the Cat Worker will fit a collar and tag. This establishes whether or not there is an owner in the vicinity.

Once the Cat Worker has as much information as possible they will contact me with the details and forward the photograph. I then do a thorough search of the Register and contact anyone who has lost a cat fitting the description. If I have no luck I then, in each chase, check with The RSPCA, and the cat is usually advertised in the 'Found' section of The Citizen.

Obviously prevention is better than cure. Ensure your cat has a collar and tag on at all times, and consider having him microchipped as well.

Please ring me if you do have what you think may be a stray cat - 01296 738558 (local rate).



Karen Robinson
Co-ordinator/Homing and Welfare Officer.
Milton Keynes and District Cats Protection.