A Tale Of Two Kitties

Gather around the fire as I tell the story of two remarkable felines and their clever chips

- Steven Harris

LET me tell you a story of two cats with the wrong names; Moses, a girl cat, and a boy cat called Priya. Moses first. She and her brother Aristotle were rescue cats my wife Angie and I adopted in March 2013. Like all cats re-homed by the RSPCA, Moses was micro-chipped before we got her. That gave us some solace when three months later she went missing.

It was my fault. I’d been trying to get her used to going outside, then one day when a neighbour’s dog came barrelling towards her, she, understandably, scarpered. Ultimately, the chip played no part in finding her. Someone living near us in Alum Chine spotted her in their garden 10 days later. They called the number on her collar and we, relieved, literally ran over to collect her. Knowing that Moses was chipped, and that if she ever ended up in a vet’s again they could identify her as ours, gave us some peace of mind.