A cattery stay is the first time your cat sleeps away from home under someone else's roof, and it quietly changes what her microchip registration has to do. At home, a stale phone number might never matter. During a stay, if she slips out during a transfer, falls ill, or is taken to an unfamiliar vet, the registry entry may be the only route back to a person who can respond. So the update here is less about tidying paperwork and more about making sure the record works on the exact dates she is away.
The Record Itself, Field by Field
Your registration record should hold the chip number, the registry's name, and your name, address, phone and email exactly as the registry holds them, plus a second contact person. Work through that set slowly, because small errors hide easily: a transposed digit in the chip number, an old flat address, an email account you rarely open. Remember what a scan actually produces. A scanner reads the chip number only, and that number is then matched against the registry's entry, so the entry behind the number is where accuracy lives. If any detail has drifted since she was chipped, correct it with the holding registry itself.
Ask the cattery, when you book, whether staff scan arriving cats or simply file the number you give them. Either way, your written copy should match the registry entry exactly, because a number copied hastily onto a booking form is a common place for a digit to wander. Keep a photograph of her chip paperwork with the record as a further cross-check.
Making the Entry Reachable for the Stay Window
If you will be abroad, in the air, or somewhere with patchy signal, your own phone may be the weakest link in the entry for those dates. Choose the second contact person with the stay in mind: someone local enough to collect her, free during the stay window, and briefed that the cattery may call. Tell that person she is boarded, where, and until when, so a call from an unknown number gets answered rather than ignored. Give the cattery a written copy of her chip number, with the registry named, at drop-off, so staff are not guessing if they ever need to quote them.
Think through the call you are planning for. If she were found during the stay, the finder or vet would scan her, get the number, and contact the registry, which would try you first and the second contact next. Every link in that short chain deserves a test: ring your own number from an unknown phone, and ring your second contact, before the stay begins.
Proving the Update Landed Before You Leave
If the registry offers a confirmation message or a printable summary, keep it with her stay paperwork. Small mismatches, an old postcode or a former surname, are exactly the details worth correcting while nothing is urgent.
An update submitted is not an update saved. Finish by reading the saved record back with the registry, field by field, and confirm the entry shows your current details and your chosen second contact. Do this days before the stay, not in the cattery car park, so a mismatch still leaves time to fix it. Note also that refreshing her collar profile is a separate job from amending the registry entry: one does not change the other. Stored by KinsLe alongside her other details, her Verified QR ID Pet Profiles page carries the registration summary you verified, in one place for anyone scanning her collar.