Collar and bell for cat that's adopted us? *insects trigger warning*

[louthomson]

NDN had three cats, one of which was being badly bullied by another.

The bullied cat started spending most of the day & night in our house, to the point where the NDN called round and we agreed that as she felt more comfortable here, we'd feed and care for her.

We've never had a cat before, and I want to look after her right obviously!

Unfortunately she's started bringing home live prey - on two occasions young birds, and more recently three small voles / mice. I get that this is normal cat behavior, but...

On one of those occasions, the vole must have escaped her as it ended up creeping under a piece of furniture to die. We've just discovered the body, which in the meantime has obviously been hosting some very unwelcome visitors - I'm guessing these are some type of fly/larvae!

My husband is getting upset about having to regularly remove live prey, and I'm a bit concerned my young DS will soon encounter one.

So WIBU to get the cat a collar with a bell, and start trying to get her used to it? I think she's about two years old if that makes a difference...

Advice gratefully received!

We've nicknamed a local cat tinkerbell because we can hear the seriel killer cat coming from 2 streets away........ I'm surprised it can move at all due to all its bells.

And yanbu........cat will be fine with an easy snap collar.

Op, You are new to cat ownership so will be pardoned this time but it is required for any post about a cat to also have an attached photo of cat aka pet tax.

We’ve got two rescue kittens they’re coming up to a year old. And dear god they hunt together. We had a garden full of feathers one morning and found them feasting on a pigeon.

Then one took down a sparrow, we had to take it to the wildlife hospital as it couldn’t fly.

So yes we’ve reluctantly belled our kits. They’ve got quick release collars and seem fine with them. The collars seem to currently be working.

I hate collars and none of our others have collars but I couldn’t let the kits continue their killing spree. We also only let the cats out after dawn and having fed them and call them in before dusk and don’t let them out again till the next day.

The birds in our garden are very dopey, despite their being five cats roaming around they’ll sit on our garden fence and sing. So of course the kits will attempt to catch them.

Insects trigger warning? Trigger warnings are for people with PTSD from war and disasters. So disrespectful to use it for something like this.

Why do people say "trigger" rather than "upsetting" or even (insects) "gross" or "disgusting" ?

That word "trigger" triggers me. grrrrr #lighthearted

Really sorry for the inappropriate use of ‘trigger warning’. I’d seen it on similar insects-related posts so included it thinking it was standard practice. I’ve asked Mumsnet to remove it.