On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 18:53:01 +0100, ARW
wrote:

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Gotta be better than taking them miles away and dumping them off as
the cat is likely to become the same problem somewhere else (to other
people).

The microchip would still give the same home address.

1) Assuming the cat owner ever bothered to have it chipped.

2) Assuming it was handed in anywhere, rather than just 'adopted' as
most stray cats seem to be.

If you feed and offer shelter to a stray animal, are there any (legal)
obligations / requirement to have it check for a chip?

3) How many cat owners bother to update the registered information if
they pass their cat onto someone else or it moves home elsewhere?

Cheers, T i m

p.s. I'll have to ask daughter if she checks for chips when she
shovels cats off the road and if she does, how many have them ... and
if they did, if the chip survived the experience. The latter might be
good to learn, should a cat that wasn't under control cause an
accident and the 'owner' was to be traced and held responsible (as I
understand they can under certain circumstances).