A Microchip Reunites a Tabby With Her Family, Nine Years Later

She slipped out during a house move in 2017, and after four months of flyers and shelter visits the family stopped looking.

Last month a woman brought a stray tabby into a clinic two hundred miles away to have her checked before taking her in. The scan turned up a chip. The chip turned up a phone number that still worked.

The reunion took another week to arrange, and the family admit they were braced for a mistake right up until she walked out of the carrier.

This is the entire argument for microchips, and for the part people forget: a chip is only as good as the phone number attached to it. If you have moved or changed numbers, it takes about two minutes to update the registry.