Cat Collars????

MiniMoo

I need a cat collar that kids cannot take off.

Kids keep taking kitty's collar off and throwing it down the drains, not my kids because they understand the importance of her having her collar on, these are annoying little brats that can do as they please, i dont want to have to keep her in as shes used to going out for a little bit each day and evening.

I've tried a buckle collar and a clip collar (twice) all have been taken off and thrown down the drains.

I'm at a loss i dont want her to go out without a collar on for many reasons, one being someone might try to keep her thinking she is a stray.

Any help would be appreciated
Moo x

kazwookie

I would never use a collar, most awful stories of legs getting caught up in them, or the collar getting stuck on low braches etc and the cat getting stuck / injured.

Get your cat microchipped, should it wander off, the locals vets etc will automatically scan for chip.

MiniMoo

She is chipped

picklepick

If kids cant take it off what would happen if your cat got stuck on a branch and it didnt have a safety release?...your cat could hang to death.

My cats dont wear collars anymore because they come off too often. From getting them stuck on things.
The only safe collars for cats IMO are the clip on ones, I wouldnt even use the buckle ones with the elastic in on my two.

If she's chipped she'll be reunited with you if she goes missing.

bagginslover

You obviously know who these kids are, could you not just talk to their parents? If I saw someone grabbing hold of my cat and removing my property from it (the collars) I'm be out and telling them to bu88er off! Go round and ask that they pay for the lost collars, they aren't rediculously expensive I know, but its the principle, and the kids losing their pocket money might have more of an effect on them. Make sure they know not to touch your cat either.

spike7451

I agree,I came home once & found Orbit's front arm stuck thru the collar,thankfully I was only gone a couple hours but since then I despise them with a passion (the collars that is!) & wouldn't recommend the use of them.

MiniMoo

spoken to the parents apparently its 'what kids do' she didnt like it that my kids didnt because they had respect for people and animals.

I know you all dont like collars but i've always put one on my cat never had a prob with them, plus alot of cats go 'missing' round here and even chipped ones never get found

Moo x

poshpants_2

I always used collars on my cats until I got two kittens two years ago and the Cats Protection told me never to use collars and all the horror stories, I stopped using them safe in the knowledge that my cats were micro chipped.

Last week one of my babies got run over and it wasn't until a few days later when I was dropping leaflets through doors trying to find him that I was told by someone a street away that he'd been run over and killed and because he didn't have a collar on they didn't know who he belonged to. I was gutted! The people who ran him over took him away and I never got to see him again.

Micro chipping is all well and good but if the cats dead it's unlikely that people are going to take them to the vets and the area I live in it's also unlikely he'd be taken to the vets if he was not dead but just injured. I don't agree with collars but I really wish I'd not taken the Cats Protection advice and put one on him. If the collar is tight enough there shouldn't be room to get legs stuck in it. From now on my cats wear collars.

Dazedandconfused

If kids can't get it off then the cat can't get it off in an emergency.

neffy58

My DS's little cat has 'lost' 2 collars within the same week - I can't help thinking someone has deliberately removed them. I can understand people not liking them, but I do think removing someone else's cat collar, however well-meaning is theft.

Myrtle77

Please don't put a collar on your cat! I work in animal welfare, and see so many cats with the most horrific injuries.

I can understand that people are concerned about not being able to track down their pet, or be informed by others if something has happened. But look at it this way - you are increasing the chances of something awful happening in the first place if you put a collar on it.

With regards to microchips. All vets, Animal Collection services, and animal charities do scan cats when they come in - so there's very little chance of you not being informed under those circumstances.

"If the collar is tight enough there shouldn't be room to get legs stuck in it. From now on my cats wear collars." I'm sorry Poshpants, but there's no such thing. Not to mention the fact that twigs and branches can get tangled up in the tightest of collars, so you're actually endangering your cat even more :eek: