Redditor Updates Stray Cat's Chip Information After Being Tossed Around By Different Supposed Owners, Refuses To Give The Cat Back

Collars and tags are excellent tools for identifying lost pets and reuniting them with their owners, but they can easily fall off or be removed. People now go for microchips, and it is very effective.

Microchips are a safe, painless, and, most importantly, effective solution to ensure your missing cat returns home. Animal Services has a database of area microchip numbers and owner information.

To update the pet's owner information in the local database, the former owner must fill out a transfer of ownership form. The completed form must be submitted to Animal Services by either the former or new owner. 

For the OP of today's story, he adopted a cat his brother brought home. They took the cat to the vet, where they did a chip check, and they said he had a chip, but his chip showed his old owner.

The OP proceeded to call the owner, and she said she had taken him because she thought that was her cat, but it turned out it wasn’t. The OP decided to take him to the shelter where he got chipped so he could keep him, and they were like the cat who got adopted out of the Petco stores.

OP kept talking about his struggles until he decided to update the cat's chip information and just keep the cat. Keep scrolling to read the entire story below.