New cat registration legislation

Members may have read in the press that there is a project of the Ministry of Agriculture that requires all cats are to be fitted with an identification microchip by 2021 (Dec. Lei nº 82/2019), as has been the case with dogs since 2008. According to the rules, owners of animals born after law enforcement have three months to register cats and ferrets and those which have been born to date can be registered within two years of the implementation date, which is 26th June 2019...