Q: I rescued a Siberian cat from the street in NYC. The cat was starving, scared, and traumatized when I found it. I took
it to a vet in Brooklyn. The vet examined him and said it was a Siberian male but the chip on him wasn’t registered so they couldn’t find the owner. They posted on the hospital’s social media and I called all vets in the area where I found him but did not find any info regarding a lost cat. I was not able to keep him and the next day I gave him for free to my friend who wanted him. She contacted the breeder in Michigan to cancel the deal on the kitten she wanted to buy from the breeder and told him the story. The breeder said that the lost cat she has belongs to the breeder. He sent a photo of the chip and said he registered him on a Russian website but there’s no record of him in the US database. My friend wanted to offer money but the breeder says that the cat was lost a year ago and he didn’t put out flyers or report to vets in Brooklyn! Breeder lived in Brooklyn but moved to MI. Does the breeder have a right to this cat although he didn’t make legitimate efforts to find him?
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A: It sounds like the breeder abandoned the cat if the cat was ever owned by the breeder. It seems coincidental that the same breeder that you friend was using is claiming ownership. Russian website?
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