Posted on 12/27/2017 6:58:59 AM PST by BenLurkin
“Cats need breakaway collars, otherwise theyd strangle themselves on shrubs and branches. “
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A friend of mine lost a dog because of a collar-——tried to jump a fence,didn’t make it but the collar caught on the fence when he fell back.
Dreadful.
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> You really dont want the collar to stay on and be difficult to shed. Cats tend to climb and go through snaggy obstacles. If the collar doesnt breakaway then the cat can get injured or die.
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Many years ago when I lived in an apartment building, I came home one night to see a feral cat around the front porch. Since I had some cat food left over from when I had a cat, I took a bowl down for it.
When it came up to the bowl, I saw that someone had stupidly and cruelly collared it with a frickin' zip tie when it was small and the cat had grown into it to the point it was literally choking to death and its eyes were starting to bulge out.
So I ran upstairs to get a pair of wire cutters but when I got back to the porch, the cat was gone and I never saw it again. I will never forget the sight of that poor creature for as long as I live......
Cats can get their claws stuck in collars while scratching themselves. Ours did, when I was a kid. If he hadn’t been right by the bedroom window where we could hear him wailing because he was stuck, something bad could have happened. Since then, I’ve never put a collar on a cat.
I always thought that, having strictly indoor cats, there was no real need to chip. But you never know what might happen, so I think it’s a good idea for any pet.
She recognized her pee smells.
In 2001 I adopted a wonderful, loving dog who’d been horribly abused as a puppy. The day he was brought to my house for his pre-adoption interview I walked him around the yard. He started leaning on me about half way through the walk and I knew it was going to work. Then we went into the house and he ran straight to the bedroom, jumped up on the bed, and made himself at home. We were that way for the next ten years until cancer took him.
LOL
I view the chip as last chance, a collar with our phone number is first. Our cats have been known to slide open a screen door and go cruising. Had one can go into a dog owners house and get cornered. The phone call brought the damn fool home.
Cats can be ingenious escape-artists.
I did not know that cats knew how to transfer implanted locator chips from one cat to another. They have the technology but not the dexterity to perform the actual surgery.
Thanks for a wonderful story..brightened my day.
I will never forget him/her either. I’m a bit claustrophobic and am having a mini-panic attack.
Actually, they reprogram the chip with their brains. They had to develop that capability because they don’t have any thumbs.
They developed it through a mutation that occurred when a fever spread through the feline world. Ted Nugent wrote a song about it.
Absolutely. When our cats wore collars with bells to avoid bird killing, we always made sure they were the kind that could come off one way or the other.
The cat was probably not ‘feral’ but just simply went to another person’s home, and stayed there, probably better food...................
probably better food...................
This is how I acquire all my cats.
Only the best!
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