Cat collars

[spokewench]

When my little black kitty, Jag, adopted me last Summer, I chipped him since I knew he would be inside outside and I didn't want him to get lost again. He was obviously lost or abandoned before (cause he is a lover kitty, not feral at all).

[GLC1968]

Another danger for non-breakaway collars is the cat getting it's jaw caught in it. This happend to one of our cats when I was a kid and it was awful. Luckily, the cat eventually came to us with the issue so that we could cut it off him, but he was stuck that way (jaw stretched open - unable to eat or drink) for at least 12 hours and possibly longer. I felt so bad for him!

We tried putting a collar on our last cat and he wouldn't have any of it. It was always off him in 5 minutes and always when we weren't looking. We don't even bother with our new cat even though he's indoor/outdoor. We have only two neighbors in close proximity (within a couple of miles) and they both know our cat, so it's not really a big deal. If we lived near the city, he'd be an indoor cat. He is microchipped, of course.

[mariacycle]

microchipped?

[nscrbug]

Yes, I forgot to mention in my post that both of my kitties are also microchipped...the shelters where we adopted from does that to all shelter animals before they are adopted.

[Grits]

We had a problem with one of our cats killing birds. (Watched out the window one time as he waited stealthily under the low branches of a tree waiting for the opportunity to jump up and grab a victim) We tried many different collars so we could put a bell on him to alert the birds, but without a lot of luck. He would always come home without collar and bell. We kept trying, though, until he finally got older and lost interest in or the ability to catch the birds. Good luck.