A CHARITY – whose outlets include one in Keighley’s Airedale Shopping Centre – is calling for the microchipping of pet cats to be made compulsory.
Cats Protection is campaigning for the move, which already applies to dogs.
People are being encouraged to get behind the initiative and press their MP to take part in an online event being staged by the charity on October 20.
Cats Protection says microchipping is a safe way to identify a cat and reunite it, if lost, with its owner.
Jacqui Cuff, for the charity, said: “We need as many MPs as possible to support a change in the law to make it compulsory to microchip pet cats. Major political parties put compulsory microchipping in their 2019 election manifestos but no progress has been made.”
For more details, visit cats.org.uk/microchippingcampaign.
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