My wife and I picked up two cats that had been abandoned in carriers with no food or water. The carried were covered in excrement and urine.
The cats are fine now, and I took them to the vet to check for chips.
Fortunately they did end up having them, but unfortunately they will not end up helping the cats.
The two cats belonged to an elderly woman with schizophrenia who is estranged from her family. She potentially traveled several hundred miles to what was near a former residence and abandoned the cats in my city. One of the cats was registered to the niece of this woman, and one to the woman herself. I've been in contact with the family and they are unable to take the cats back.
We are unable to keep them, but several rescues have advised us that the chips represent legal issues as they're still technically the property of who's listed on them. I think I can talk to the niece to get the chip information changed easily enough for the one cat, but I'm worried about the other cat. No one knows where this woman is or if she's even alive. This woman should not get these cats back, and I'm worried that unless we can change the chip she would have a legal claim to them.
What can I do? Is it possible to change chip information on an abandoned cat where the owner is mentally unfit when I'm not a family member? I don't know if the actual family would be able to either as they haven't spoken to her in a while.
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