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A Luton lady has began a petition to make it obligatory for councils to test lifeless cats and dogs discovered on roads for microchips.
Zuzu had gone lacking from home in Lewsey Farm on the finish of January. For per week, Maya and her young children have been devastated as they searched and waited for his or her young cat to return home.
But on February 3 a neighbour informed Maya that he had seen a cat being picked up by a council employee on Wheatfield Road.
Maya mentioned: “How could you do that? I thought he was just picked up and taken back to the depot where he wasn’t scanned, but he was just thrown away with the rest of the rubbish.”
The council mentioned the proper process for coping with lifeless pets was not adopted, and apologised for the error. But Maya and her household are upset that they weren’t given the prospect to reunite with their beloved pet.
She added: “They’re part of our family, our pets. The way [the council] speak about the pets is like ‘Oh, they’re just vermin’ and they don’t have the budget to deal with it.
“What if you’ve done that to our children? I don’t believe this is the first time they’ve done it. [Dead pets] belong to someone. They need to go back to someone so we can bury them and grieve for them.”
A spokesperson for Luton Borough Council mentioned: “The council does have a procedure for dealing with fatally injured or dead animals found in the town. In this particular instance the procedure, which includes checking for microchips and storage where appropriate, was not followed correctly.
“We have contacted the resident and sincerely apologised for this error on our part. All our street cleansing teams have been reminded of the correct procedure and we will shortly update our website to ensure the public is made aware of the policy in place.”
In England, it’s a authorized requirement to chip cats and dogs, however there may be nothing in place to make sure that councils scan microchips to reunite pets with their house owners. Gizmo’s Legacy is a marketing campaign group hoping to get a regulation handed to make this obligatory for all native authorities.
Helena Abrahams began the marketing campaign after her cat Gizmo was struck by a automobile in 2016 earlier than being faraway from the roadside and brought to landfill.
Helena mentioned: “The downside is councils throughout the nation don’t scans these cats even when it says they do on all their web sites. We want closure on this challenge, and a regulation change can not come quickly sufficient.”
Helena says 92% of native councils have a type of association in place to scan cats, however solely about 75% are literally informing the microchip firm, who inform the proprietor.
So far, Maya’s petition has been signed by greater than 1,800 individuals.
