Cat folk - collar query

but YOU can find him as hes chipped, the vets or place you had him chipped will be able to track him if this did happen!

Thats by the by, our cats chipped, and wears a collar which Mr F finds ridiculous..but i like to know that shes wandering around with a collar and our details on 'just incase' you know?

So basically this is no help ?

I gave up with collars after a month of replacing them every day. Our cats removed them constantly. My Dad said I needed them to be tighter but they were elasicated and that is how they kept removing them. The cats are chipped aswell. BUT until recently they very rarely if ever went out. Now one of the cats goes out and disappears for a day at a time and I do end up worrying so bought him a collar - which he promptly removed. I can only hope for the best☹️

You can only find him if someone scans him. If they don't scan them how will you find him?

Mum and Dad stopped enforcing a colour on their cat when she got her paw stuck in it and started strangling herself. We had to cut it off so she could breathe. ? Scared me a bit. I'd just stick to the chip.

out vet said we can track ours from the chip, so if shes lost they can find her within a certain radius of our adddress?!

It can track the cat back to you but only if it is scanned. It is like a barcode inside your cat ratehr than being like a mobile phone IYSWIM?

well i never!!! the cats got her annual check in November , perhaps il bring it up but they defo didnt mention any kind of scanning involved,perhaps they've given mixed emssages out to all their pet owners ?

We need to try to get our boys into collars and used to them as soon as possible. They're still so tiny though.

I've never had a collar on our girl, purely because i know she won't keep it on. When she had to be neutered she had to have a cone on for 10 days and hate it. I know collars aren't as intrusive but I don't see the point in wasting my money on something she will hate & probably end up loosing. She is microchipped anyway.

Here is picture of her in her collar after being neutered, she was so funny as kept getting stuck!

One of my old cats had a cone after an operation and as he had such short legs it kept catching on the floor which thoroughly peed him off so much that after a couple of hours of it he just gave up and laid on the floor and wouldn't move☹️

Flow - they may have jsut assumed everyone understood how they worked, sorry chuck.

My cat had a collar but then one day he went missing, he was gone for months. Then he came home, his front paw was caught in his collar, the fur was all worn down and his skin infected, he was all skin and bone, basically nearly dead because his foot was caught so we think he got trapped somewhere. No clue how he survived so long or eventually got home. Didn't use a collar on any of our others after that.

I would think a cat with no collar was homeless to be honest. We've never had a problem with Poppys, she doesn't try to take them off its not elasticated its a leather one (pink with diamante hearts on hee hee)

Boy has a safety collar so if he gets his paw/branch/other cat stuck, then it comes open - which is how he is losing so many of them. But I would rather he lost it than strangled himself!

I was under the impression the chip only worked if whoever found him took him to be scanned, and that's something that not everyone would have heard of.

I think I will persevere with collars for a bit longer then. The mighty word of Hitched has spoken.

I panicked then PB! I have just picked up a very unamused sleeping Popsicle and it does have an elastic bit on it! My bad, whoops! I was just thinking to myself then, surely pets at home wouldn't sell me a strangulation collar??! So I had to go and investigate! Thanks for pointing that out I (stupidly) had never even thought of that! But yes, anyway she's had this one on since Santa brought it last year! I wonder what sparkly treat he will get this Christmas for her! ?

Could it be the tag that annoys him?

We got collars printed with our phone number on it, so no annoying dangly tag.

Then decided to have them as house cats so collar became redundant!

These are them...

http://www.kittycollars.co.uk/personalised-cat-collars.htm

I gave up with collars a month or two ago when my cat got her jaw stuck in the safety one. Before that they were both losing them so I gave up. Hardly any of the cats in the area wear collars so mine dont stand out. They both look healthy and well fed and are wary of strangers so shouldnt be mistaken for strays.

I just keep buying them for HarryCat, all of my moggersons are chipped but I think alot of people finding a cat would not bother to take one to the vets to find out if they were or not.

I just keep buying them for him, every time he loses one, a new one goes on.

Sorry- not much help is it? We are on our second this month alone....

No. We bought one but he acts like your hitting him in you try and put it on!! I you try he rolls over and mews until you take it off! He hates it. He only goes out for a few hours at a time anyway so we dont worry. He is chipped though.

We never thought our cat would accept a collar - he's a young rescue cat, hates being picked up or having anything done to him - even hates being groomed. However, I put the collar on and he completely ignored it!

Yes, he's chipped, but if someone ran him over at least it's easier to knock the door or phone (we have house name and phone number on the collar, and live in a rural community where there aren't many houses!). I doubt people would bother taking a dead cat that they'd hit/found in the street, to the vets to be IDd

Only one of my cats will keep a collar on, Mike's collars do not last a day.

Personally I wouldn't rely on a chip alone, they can fail and move (a problem if only the neck is scanned).

Ancol make a safety collar which comes apart reasonably easily under pressure to stop them strangling themselves or getting a paw caught through them.

PP - Ancol also do kitten collars, I bought some on eBay for ours - the collars are the only way we can tell them apart! Don't do them up too tight, you should be able to get two fingers under the collar no more no less, on kittens you must check every week because they grow so quickly.

Ours have this week been bought adult ones because they are maturing into big monster cats (they are already about 5kg at 7 months old!).

Bought from:

Green for Yogi & Blue for Boo Boo.

My previous cat only lost her collar once in the 12 years I had her. Thankfully it was a weekend and I was around because it had a magnetic tag on it for the cat flap so she wouldn't have been able to get in.

Ok please bare With me I have been lurking here for a couple of months and seen so many posts but wanted to reply. My cat has had a collar and been chipped as the vet said she was so beautiful people would have not got her checked. She has pulled off numerous collars but we still keep on on her so it looks like she is,owned. Have found though though that we got a tag cut for her at timpsons and it cost 7.50 and on eBay it was a lot,cheaper. (oh god that bare is so,spelt wrong but can't work out the right way to spell it and iPad keeps putting commas in!). Can I post an intro post without complaint?

I keep buying collars for Oscar too.. it's an elasticated one and usually looses one every few months.. he's not chipped either

Actually just to add we live near a large main road and cats got knocked over and killed on it quite a bit. I have often collected the bodies, cleaned them up and if they ahve a collar on returned them to their owner. If there is no collar I haev searched until I have found who the cat belonged to.

I have also found a stray before and made enquiries as to who it belonged to rather than just keeping it.

I took a collar off Maggie after I found her downstairs with her collar stuck on her, round her neck and under her front leg. No way had she done that herself, someone did it to her. So I now dont have a collar on her. She could have choked when that happened and I dont want to come home and find my baby like that again.

Just cos we're talking cats...here she is...awwww