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Post by beanie on Oct 16, 2007 20:23:11 GMT
hubby bough a pretty suade purple collar with a bell today for izzy. after twice getting his jaws caught in it, the second time almost falling down the stairs in his fright the collar is now in the bin. has anyone else had a problem with them. we had bought it with the idea of putting a name tag on so neighbours would know he was ours just in case he left the garden.
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Post by Shrubrose on Oct 17, 2007 6:55:16 GMT
We've had similar problems with collars beanie too. We've just perservered with them until our cats got used to them, which they do eventually. Might seem cruel but after having lost one cat earlier this year who didn't have a collar we thought it better. Cruel to be kind sort of thing.
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Post by Plocket on Oct 17, 2007 7:24:03 GMT
We had similar problems with my first cat and she never wore one in the end. With Poppy we just perservered and she's quite happy with her collar 16 years on  If he's trying to get it off with his teeth then you are going to have to have it a little bit tighter Beanie. Stick with it coz having a name-tag is very important. The other option is tagging. |
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Post by beanie on Oct 17, 2007 7:37:21 GMT
I can't fathom how he got it in his mouth the second time as i had tightened it after the first incident. i'm wondering if i've got a crazy cat, i found him tightroping along the curtain pole yesterday . my friends tell me that i have got the cat that i deserve. MAD
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Post by Plocket on Oct 17, 2007 8:54:19 GMT
Oh I wouldn't worry about him being on the curtain pole - Poppy used to climb up the wallpaper, curtains - ANYTHING!!! ;D
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Post by MamIDdau on Oct 17, 2007 17:26:51 GMT
Schmickles went BERSERK when I first put the collar on her but I only put it on her for when I get up in the dark so I know where she is and don't trip over her.
Shads has a reflective one on because he's black and he managed to get his other one off somehow, which we then found and Schmickles is now wearing.
The collar should be snug but you should be able to comfortably get 2 fingers between the collar and their neck in case they get it caught on something and get out of it. And they should be elasticated.
Reeeeeeeally you shouldn't have collars on them and should have them chipped instead to reduce the serious injuries that can be caused with collars (won't go into too much detail but I'm sure you can imagine if you need to). However, if you see a cat with a collar on, you're more likely to know that it "belongs" to someone (although we all know that we belong to the cat).
I had a cat called Dabs who was a stray and turned up on my doorstep. She didn't have a collar on and it was in the days before microchipping was invented. I put a collar on her. She got it off. I put another one on her. She got that off too. I put a 3rd one on her and superglued the clasp so that she could get out of it if she got it caught but couldn't just get it off. That one stayed on and I never had any other problems with collars going missing after that.
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