Do your cats wear collars?

TripleH

Our younger two have told me that they don't need collars and that they are good thanks. The older one as now indoor (All 3 are) doesn't although she used to to give the local wildlife a chance.

She only wears a festive jester collar at Christmas for my amusement (which I still haven't worked out how I have gotten away with putting on her).

gettingready

None of mine wear collars (all microchipped).

I have a Parkland Walk behind my back fence and the quick release ones were gone within seconds of the cats going out. NO way would i risk "normal" ones as cats could hang themselves on those - and that includes that silly fabric bright coloured one posted in the link above.

I tried one with a bell once - one of mine was so terrified of it, thought something is chasing HIM - run off and I have not seen him for 2 days. Never again

CarrieVS

We've always tried to keep a collar on our cat - she is microchipped but it ensures no-one starts feeding her as a "stray", plus we choose reflective ones for road safety. A bell never made much difference: they just learn to move without ringing it, but it never bothered her either - now she has a magnet on the collar too, the bell always ends up stuck to it and won't ring anyway.

Always always safety collars, never even think of putting anything else on a cat (unless it's a collar/harness for walks on a lead, taken off the rest of the time.)

She used to have them off pretty regularly, but then we got a magnetic catflap (the neighbourhood bully was coming in and eating from her bowl) and she lost collar and magnet twice, found herself locked out twice, and decided to stop taking them off. We still keep a spare collar and magnet around, but she hasn't "lost" one in about the last ten years. She's a bright little girl.

hb2

CarrieVS wrote: »

We've always tried to keep a collar on our cat - she is microchipped but it ensures no-one starts feeding her as a "stray", plus we choose reflective ones for road safety. A bell never made much difference: they just learn to move without ringing it, but it never bothered her either - now she has a magnet on the collar too, the bell always ends up stuck to it and won't ring anyway.

Always always safety collars, never even think of putting anything else on a cat (unless it's a collar/harness for walks on a lead, taken off the rest of the time.)

She used to have them off pretty regularly, but then we got a magnetic catflap (the neighbourhood bully was coming in and eating from her bowl) and she lost collar and magnet twice, found herself locked out twice, and decided to stop taking them off. We still keep a spare collar and magnet around, but she hasn't "lost" one in about the last ten years. She's a bright little girl.

Obviously brighter than mine. He would stand and bash his head against the cat-flap without any idea of why it wouldn't open!

Slinky

Our old cat used to wear a collar as it carried the magnet for the catflap. Our current cat had been a rescue that was found with a collar wound. We only tried putting collar on her once, understandbly she found it very distressing so we took it straight off again. She has a microchip catflap.

DD265

I thought I'd update; we're going down the harness route whilst the boys get used to the great outdoors. I don't think they're going to be impressed.

TripleH

Our middle cat (A house cat) likes to go for walks, but as she is a little excitable, we have a cat harness for her. Sometimes she waits by them when she wants a walk.

We got another one for her brother but when we puts it on him, he freezes and doesn't move. He'd much rather not wear it but hes dafter than his sister.

bearcat16

Ours have collars with a bell and a name tag (which also has our phone number on). If they got lost, I think that other people will be much more likely to phone us than take them to a vet to be scanned (though they are chipped too). It would be easier and faster.

The collars with the quick release clips are useless, they fall off. We use ones that are elastic all the way around. Easy to slip out of.

The bell was supposed to give birds a chance, but it actually made them better hunters as they learned to stalk and hunt so skilfully that it doesn’t ring.

TBagpuss

Mine has a collar - he is microchipped but as others have aid, I think it is helpful to make clear he is not a stray, plus it is reflective to hopefully assist with safety.

He has, of course, always had the safety collars and does lose them from time to time, but not so often as to make them unworkable.

Current cat is pretty laid back about having a collar on - previous cat didn't like having one put on, but would be fine with it after some treats and abotui 10 minutes.

peachyprice

Nope, absolutely not. Having had a cat come home with his front leg stuck through his collar, despite it being quick release, all collars and the magnetic cat flap went in the bin.