« I thought the chip alone was enough »: why a scanned cat can still come back as unidentified since the June 2024 law
Since June 2024, England’s mandatory cat microchipping law requires more than just the implant—your contact details must be registered and current on an approved database. A shocking 22% of English cats lack microchips entirely, and countless others are chipped but effectively invisible because owners never completed the registration or failed to update outdated information.