A pet owner has shared how she was forced to call the police after a microchip firm refused to tell her who had inadvertently 'cat-napped' her beloved moggy.
Beryl Edwards, 65, scoured the neighbourhood for two-year-old Fred when he vanished from her home in Market Drayton, Shropshire, on August 9 last year, but there was no sign of her ginger-and-white Tom cat.
As the months passed, she had almost given up hope of ever seeing him again - until she received an email from pet microchip company Identibase last Thursday.
To her shock, they told her Fred was now living with someone who wanted to keep him as their pet, and so she needed to consent to a change of ownership on the microchip.
