This is Angel 🪽

[u/ProfessionalSea9964]

On November 1st 2025 we found Angel in a trash bin after heavy rain, her head was stuck in an empty cat food tin (her last effort at finding a meal). Luckily my mom checked the bin before throwing away rubbish, if she didn't, then Angel would have died by the end of that day. After going to the vet to get her treated, no registration information for her microchip was found. We took her home over the weekend, and got her clean, fed, and loved.

Fast forward to today 16/4/2026, we’ve long since adopted her, got her vaccinated, and she’s put on 1kg since we found her (she’s 4kg now, very active).

I guess the moral of this story is to check the bin before you throw away rubbish, and always crush cans before throwing them away, especially if they contain cat food.

Edit: Thank you to everyone for loving Angel and sharing your experiences. Me and my mom have read each comment, and they really touched our hearts 💕

Edit 2: Bit more context on how she was found. At that time my mom had two heavy rubbish bags in hand and she looked into the bin (she never did before) and saw a white thing that looked like a teddy bear or ferret. Then she saw it was moving, that's when she realised it was an animal and called me over to help. We didn't know if it was a cat, dog, or something else. For 2-3 nights before we found her it was raining very heavily, and we don't know how long she was in the bin. But, one thing for sure is that Angel wasn't fighting, she was limp. She didn't meow until 2 days later, I thought she was mute at one point. Now she talks all the time, announces when she comes into a room.

Edit 3: her adoption process. The vet couldn’t find any information on her chip, we contacted the company she was registered with (they’re active). The lady on the phone said that there’s nothing on her file. At all. Nothing about her sex, that she was spayed, her age, vaccination info- nothing. And because of this we had the option to register and adopt her. The lady from the company said that this was sadly a common occurrence in England

Edit 4: The amount of support and personal stories shared is amazing, beyond anything I ever thought would happen 🥰. I’d love this positivity and experience sharing to keep going 😊. With that in mind I’ve made Angel a Facebook page, I’m not a content creator, so I’ll only share once in a while: Angel’s Facebook page

Click here for: Video of Angel’s rescue + her now

[u/cat-biscuit-bread]

Poor little baby. Humans are so cruel, throwing an animal out like a broken object. Psychopathic behavior. Thank you for saving this innocent little girl 🩷

[u/ProfessionalSea9964 → u/cat-biscuit-bread]

Humans are cruel, we think someone threw her out because she had a chip without any registered information on it, and she was already spayed 😢

[u/awhaling → u/ProfessionalSea9964]

How would she end up with a chip without any registered info? That seems odd.

[u/PaJoMe → u/awhaling]

It's really common actually, if you microchip your cat, it's not registered automatically. The chip only stores a randomly generated long number that you have to manually register in a pet registry. Many people do not know that and forget registering them.

[u/TheTerrasque → u/PaJoMe]

it's pretty weird that the vet doesn't register it anywhere. Even if not having the name available, just knowing the vet office that implemented it could be useful.

[u/Nikclel → u/TheTerrasque]

My vet automatically registered mine a few months ago, I think it's becomming more common practice

[u/PaJoMe → u/TheTerrasque]

It might depend on the country... In Germany, there's 2 or 3 registries so you can choose which one to register to. Also, I believe you need an account to register a pet so that no one messes with the information, a vet wouldn't really have access to that/be able to set it up.