Do you keep your indoor cats collared?

[catland]

Oh Uabassoon - I feel your pain, because I recently lost a kitty too.

No matter what we do, it just sometimes isn't enough and a terrible, tragic accident occurs. I'm still reeling from my loss as well.

So maybe the chips and a couple of good photos are the best protection we can offer our kitties. In the meantime, we just have to give them lots of love every day.

[Freckles]

Originally posted by Uabassoon
I stopped putting collars on my cats because of Zasper death.

Freckles, strictly an indoor cat, doesn't wear a collar, but is chipped.

About 1970, my cat Jerry, was licking and cleaning his chest. Suddenly a lower canine tooth caught in the buckle of his leather collar. Fortunately, he was sitting right in front of me when it happened. I had to cut the collar off. None of my cats ever wore a similar collar again.

[All Creatures Great And Small]

xx

[Fuzzy317]

All of our cats and dogs are collared, for the chance they get loose outside. They all have a message with our number:

Help Me
Find Home
###-###-####

The ones on the cats stretch. One time, our Rosie was using the handle on the heater register to scratch and her collar became hooked. Her just pulling away, pulled it over her head, no harm done.

I think we got those at Petco. The pictures on their web site do not show enough detail.

[All Creatures Great And Small]

xx

[krazyaboutkatz]

Originally posted by All Creatures Great And Small


Hmmm.......maybe I shouldn't get the kitty started on piercing.....he might get carried away

LOL None of my cats wear collars. They are strictly indoor cats. I used to have collars on Storm and Pepper but they hated them and my vet said that since they're indoor cats they really don't need collars. Sunny is microchipped and I'm going to get Storm and Pepper microchipped as well when they go to the vet for their annual check up.

[luckies4me]

All of my cats wer collars with identification. They are the elastic type that expand so they cannot risk choking to death. I too have had my cats get their teeth stuck intheir collars, usually it were kittens that had just worn a collar for the first time, and they eventually get used to the fact that there is something around their neck and there isn't much they can do about it.

I will be getting my cats tatooed when I have enough money. The thought of microchipping scares me. It's a devil satin thing. And I would rather have my cats heads cut off then go to hell, lol!

Tatooing is fairly common, especially for exotic pets. For cats, they just shave the ear and tatoo the inside. I have also thought of ear tags too.

[AmberLee]

Both Livvy and Cassy are microchipped and Livvy wears her collar constantly (Breakaway style). I try to keep a collar on Cassy due to his door-dartting (darting?) but he's adept at loosing them. At one time I kept his id on him on a halter, but the pet sitter kept taking the halters off saying it was dangerous....

[popcornbird]

How about a ring on their leg, like they put on birds, with the address/phone number on it? Do you think that would be safer than collars? Just a suggestion. I have no idea how cats would react to a ring on their leg. Also, just wondering, how do they microchip cats and how does it work?

[Fuzzy317]

Originally posted by popcornbird
How about a ring on their leg, like they put on birds, with the address/phone number on it? Do you think that would be safer than collars? Just a suggestion. I have no idea how cats would react to a ring on their leg. Also, just wondering, how do they microchip cats and how does it work?

I would guess cats would be more against a ring on their leg than the collar

As I have been told, microchip involves inserting a small chip under the skin between the shoulder blades, its about the size of a grain of rice I think. This chip or marker has a code that can be read by certain readers to give the code number which indentifies a database record of the pet, owner, location, maybe even a phone number.

[Felicia's Mom]

Beau wears a collar, Felicia doesn't because she fights it. After what I have been reading, I am considering tatooing or microchiping.

[Chinadoll]

I have indoor only kitties and none of them are collared. Mostly becuse they're all still kittens and I could never find a collar small enough for them not to get out of...then I worry about choking, Scout's big enough to wear one now and since he's the ony one with an outdoor fascination he most probably will get a collar and tags. Actually he has a Harley Davidson collar and his rabies tag...I'm just waiting to go to Petsmart to make one of those tags with his name any my phone number. I just know he's going to hate it.

[rosethecopycat]

I just got the boys chipped two weeks ago. I feel better.
It is not fail-safe. Like you all know, someone has got to FIND your cat. If they just disappear...well, it's better that nothing.
What I'm waiting for is a tracking device, possibly on the GPS system, where if your cat goes missing you can find his location. (I suppose if this were possible, they'd to it for those 'fur-less cats' (kids))

We could use it in case of fire, when the cats go in the closets.

Please, someone invent that.

My cats all wear collars . They are also of the elastic type ; they cannot get choked ... . I buy those with a tiny bell on it . This is the only reason why they are wearing their collar : I can always here where they are ... ! I feel more at easy knowing this ! Of course , I take Inka's collar off , everytime I comb her hair (she is a long-haired kitten ; looks like a Main Coon) .

[Glacier]

Yup, all of them except Polly Paws. She rips out all her fur under the collar if I try to put one on her. They are also all microchipped and have ID tags on their collar. Glacier is tatooed too-i had that done before chips were popular. Hmm, that sounds a little obsessive doesn't it?