That term brings back nightmares......
I lived in an apartment for almost 23 years and one night when I had to go outside to my car, there was a cat on the front porch that was obviously hungry.
So I quickly ran upstairs to get a bowl of cat food that I had left over from my previous cat and took it back downstairs. It was then I noticed that someone had put a zip-tie collar on the poor thing when it may have been a kitten and the cat had grown into it to the point that it was literally being choked to death as evidenced by its bulging eyes and the zip-tie embedded around its neck.......
I then ran back upstairs to get a pair of wire cutters but by the time I had returned, the cat had left..........
I will never forget the tortured face on that poor cat for as long as I live..........
That is horrible-may the person that did that have a zip tie collar put on them.
My cats-including the future abductee-wear break-away safety collars-with a little bell. I check them often to make sure they work properly-my three cats do not go outside, ever-neither will the kidnapped one, once I have him in my permanent possession.