Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Feline Costumier on August 07, 2008, 21:19:00 PM
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So being a bit of a girly girl with quite a girly cat (watching her refusal to dig when pooing in the garden is a sight to see), I always have a fabulous collar for my cat. I usually keep it not too loose and not too and they are the elasticated variety.
Recently I started to get worried about the trees and bushes Chilli is often in amongst so I got her a new quick release one, still pretty. I put it on her before letting her out for the first time since the strop debacle. Off she went last night, in she comes this morning, no collar! Not even twenty four hours!
So I am thinking that I will now go back to the elasticated variety as I cannot be buying a collar for every day of the year.
What collars do you lot use if any? Have you had similar issues?
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But just imagine what might have happened if the collar hadn't come off. My boys don't wear a collar because they are indoor cats, but imo quick release collars are the only safe ones.
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have to agree, I am afraid. If the collar had not released, but just stretched, she could as easily strangled as backed out of it .... too many cats die with collars. I don't use them on mine. They are microchipped, which means if they are taken to a vet they can be identified and returned to me. But if they get a collar caught, they might not live long enough for that ... :scared:
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Don't know what to say except please don't use an elasticated collar on Chilli. I was lucky when my cat got her leg caught many years ago coz she was indoors and woke me up. They are very dangerous and the injuries they can cause are truly terrible sometimes resulting in slow and painful death. Sorry don't mean to shock. I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.
I have however acquiesced on a snap shut one for Noni (even tho she's chipped) coz she is very beautiful and I want peeps to know she has a home. I rely on chips only for the other 3 boys. If you put "collars" in search on this site you'll get a flavour of people's views generally.
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I have never put collars on mine -heard too many horror stories and seen too many terrible photos - mine are all microchipped too so if taken to a vets they will be scanned.
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She is chipped, I'm just nervous of someone thinking she's homeless, i live in London so very residential with lots of people who would likely adopt her. Had this happen when I was little, never got my little boy back.
I know the dangers and the horrors, she did used to have a quick release one when she was younger but it didn't release quite so easily I don't think, she's actually only on her second collar.
Maybe I'll just risk it without one at all.
Oh and I did do a search, I din't come up with anything, so sorry if you talked about this heaps, I know how annoying that is!
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Sylvester and Sofa came to me when I lived in London and had free run without collars for many years but if you have had something happen I undrestand why you would be worried. I think people are more aware of chips now though - well I hope they are!
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Here are a few threads on collars if you want the past things.
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,1731.0.html
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,5812.0.html
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,12617.0.html
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,12733.0.html
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php/topic,13260.0.html
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I know it has been said already but I don't like collars since my cat got his leg stuck through a "safety" elasticated collar - we believed the term. We were on holiday, he was saved only by our neighbour who found him and rushed him to the vet as the person feeding our cats did not notice it was only one cat she saw. He had terrible injuries to his armpit and was very nervy for the rest of his (thankfully long) life.
So proper safety collars at least if you must have one at all.
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Have a look at the links section
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php?action=links;cat=6
Marla's Kitty Collars are recommended, I have a couple myself I bought and I know there are others on the forum who have bought these collars.
They are pretty sturdy and you can buy girly ones too ;) The clasps are very good and will break open with a hard tug.
Mine is indoor only, also London, though if/when (she says with anxious hope!) I move out of London and have a run for her, if she ever wants to venture out by golly she'll be wearing her collar. No way I'd risk it.
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Mine are both chipped and I put their safety collars (kittycollars.co.uk) on when the go outside.
The other weekend when they were out, all of a sudden they both came rushing back inside all spooked and then wouldn't go out again all afternoon. I wasn't sure what had happened but when I looked outside the some neighbours were going round the corner with their dog, so whether the dog had tried to chase them or something. I then noticed Fergus had lost his collar, I found it in next doors front garden, so really not sure what had happened out there as there isn't anything there for him to have got it caught on.
Funny because they do associate their collars with going out, as soon as I pick the collars up they are there by the back door :Luv:
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I have never used collares before as Beavis and Oscar were not wanderers but I have a feeling Jerry and Gizzy will be a different kettle of fish so I am considering safety collars , just in case.
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Im anti collar but if you must use one please make sure its a break away, better to loose a few collars then loose a leg or in somecases your cat.
I guess i would rather someone adopt one of my cats then it be hung in a tree :(
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Chilli is beautiful. All my lot are chipped and have breakaway collars. Yes, I have to replace them more frequently for my two adventurers because they lose them. But as said previously, better they release when they're meant to! ;)
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I know Ela mentined recently about a cat that was on her waiting list to come in. It had slipped on a window ledge, the collar caught on the bar and you can guess the rest :(
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Dinah has one of Marla's Kittycollars.
She dosn't go out very often, but lost one recently - so they seem to do their job.
One of our neighbours stuck it back through the letterbox...on the same day as the replacement!
I can understand why people don't like them, but as Dinah needs daily tablets I hope that if she ever became lost someone would read her tag and call us or the vet straight away as opposed to wondering if she was stray/not thinking to check for a chip.
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She is chipped, I'm just nervous of someone thinking she's homeless, i live in London so very residential with lots of people who would likely adopt her. Had this happen when I was little, never got my little boy back.
I know the dangers and the horrors, she did used to have a quick release one when she was younger but it didn't release quite so easily I don't think, she's actually only on her second collar.
Maybe I'll just risk it without one at all.
Oh and I did do a search, I din't come up with anything, so sorry if you talked about this heaps, I know how annoying that is!
I used to have the exact same sentiments, but after a while I realised that the quick release collars I was using weren't releasing at all ... I and my neighbour found two my lot had lost still done up .. and they were not too loose, I checked and checked again. So after that I abandoned them (the collars, that is!) and immediately felt happier as I knew my cats could never get caught on anything. My cats were happier too ... they didn't really like wearing them, anyway.
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My two have marla's kittycollars and they have broken off on a few occasions (mostly after fights) so I am reasonably comfortable that the ones they are wearing do release easily enough.
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my two are chipped and I've used Marla's kittycollars, which definitely do quick release as we've had to go out and search for them occasionally :evillaugh:
However, given that my two don't venture far and are mainly indoor anyway for the past few months I haven't bothered with collars at all but would if they were out all day!
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*waves* Are you the same duchess on Rabbits United by any chance??
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'fraid not - just great minds thinking alike (ahem :evillaugh:)
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How bizarre, the other duchess is from your corner of London too :evillaugh: