{"id":819996,"date":"2026-03-12T02:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/819996\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:20:35","slug":"missing-cats-spark-calls-for-tougher-safeguards-after-scanner-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/819996\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing cats spark calls for tougher safeguards after scanner failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n        Member Exclusive &#8211; please consider supporting our journalism to unlock this article    <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Josie-missing-cat.webp.webp\" alt=\"Josie has been missing since January 13\" class=\"wp-image-1057415\"\/>Josie has been missing since January 13        <\/p>\n<p>Pet owners in Caerphilly have raised concerns after a dead cat was collected while the council\u2019s microchip scanner was not working \u2014 raising fears some missing pets could go unidentified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 1.1em;\">Become a member to unlock this exclusive article and more. Our journalism needs the support of our readers to survive &#8211; just \u00a31 month makes a huge difference. Use the arrows next to the amount to select your contribution. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; font-size: 0.9em; color: #666;\">\n            Already a member? Make sure you&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/membership.caerphilly.observer\/login\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #0073aa;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">logged in<\/a> to access this content.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Member Exclusive &#8211; please consider supporting our journalism to unlock this article Josie has been missing since January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8818],"tags":[236119,24408,381,748,236120,5700,236121,393,4884,236122,16,15],"class_list":["post-819996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bristol","tag-abertridwr","tag-animal-welfare","tag-bristol","tag-britain","tag-caerphilly-county-borough-council","tag-cats","tag-cats-protection","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-missing-pets","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116213817699134904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}