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Cat collar recommendations please

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CarGirl · 30/05/2010 14:19

not so darling cat #2 keeps catching birds, the mice I can live with however in an urban area I am really unhappy about him killing off what little birdlife there is.

Any recommendations for particular cat collars that will keep him safe and the birds too.

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ClaireDeLoon · 30/05/2010 14:23

If he keeps a collar on then the liberator is a good collar, about £10 from Petsathome or online. It has a motion sensor and bleeps and flashes when the cat moves suddenly. However if he is collar houdini cat then it's a waste of money.

DCat2 is seemingly on a mission to rid the world of starlings, so I got a liberator collar and he went out, smugly returned 30 mins later collarless, we never found it.

ClaireDeLoon · 30/05/2010 14:25

Or maybe not, PetPlanet says discontinued and I can't find it for sale.

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CarGirl · 30/05/2010 14:25

will try with a cheaper collar first then! I got him as adult so he's not had one before but I'm going to try one. I am very with him, we've had a robin, pigeon and now 2 starlings.

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nannynobnobs · 30/05/2010 14:29

My cat is a stone cold murderer, but since getting her a ridiculous pink collar with quite a noisy regular bell on it she has not brought anything in.
(she has chased a mother blackbird off the nest and made her abandon a clutch of fresh eggs though, little fucker)

BuzzingNoise · 30/05/2010 14:31

Please get a collar which opens easily (one with a plastic clip together clasp, not a buckle) - it means the collar will come undone if it gets caught. I once winessed my cat nearly hang himself with a buckle collar and would only get the clasp ones after that.

nannynobnobs · 30/05/2010 17:42

We bought one of the Angol snap open collars for our kitten, she ditched it within the hour... Now she has a leather one with a stretchy elastic panel, I know she can get out of it because DD2 came in triumphantly holding it one day

aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 30/05/2010 18:06

Please think carefully before you put a collar on your cat.
Two of my rescue cats had been trapped in collars before we had them.

One of them had been abandaonned as a young cat wearing a collar, as he grew the collar was tightening on his neck. When he went into rescue it had to be cut off and he was in an awful state - the skin around his neck is still thickened and rough 4 years on.

Cat2 was even worse. He was found miles from anywhere with a very tight collar on, trying to get it off he had trapped a front leg and back leg inside the collar.
When he came to us he was a shaven mass of scars and stitches - his neck and legs were in an appaling state. Because it was summer his woulds had become maggot infested so the vet had to cut away a huge amount of his flesh. He wasn't expected to make a full recovery, but he is fine now - although the first summer we had him he would scream in fear if he heard a fly buzzing

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CarGirl · 30/05/2010 18:55

This is my fear - how likely is the collar going to cause him a trapping/strangulation injury provided I get him a quick release one?

I can't bear his decimation of the birds. My previous 2 cats were 7ish when I got them and only ever caught 1 mouse between them - I'm not used to this sort gift giving! I always thought these pedigrees would be too inbred to be this proficient.

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ClaireDeLoon · 30/05/2010 19:00

A quick release one is fine. Only one of mine wears a collar because of various issues and he is currently modelling this which has the type of snap release that, as far as I know, are the safest. Any pressure on the collar and it just snaps open.

aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 30/05/2010 19:32

Sorry CarGirl - I didn't mean to scare you.
Both cases I mentioned were in buckle type collars with no quick release mechanism - I'm sure they are fine although you may find yourself replacing them on a regular basis.

I realise my cases are extreme but my poor cats were in such an awful state that I don't use collars for any of my cats now.

beautifulgirls · 30/05/2010 19:57

Snap release collars are the only safe collars for cats. Elasticated ones can come off over the head yes, but they also can allow the cat to get a front leg through them when still on the neck and I have seen some nasty injuries to the axillae (armpits!) of cats caused by these collars. It can be frustrating when they come home having lost yet another collar, but that is the whole point of them.

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CarGirl · 30/05/2010 20:04

okay that's the info I wanted to know, snap release with jangling bells is the way to go, fortunately darling cat #1 hasn't brought anything home yet!

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DontCallMeBaby · 30/05/2010 20:08

These are good. I can categorically state that they DO snap open, as DCat1 lost two within ten days of us getting them ... he is now collarless. DCat2 has lost his once, but in the drive, so he still has that one. Friend's cat had one of those nasty armpit injuries so I would rather just accept that one of them goes collarless than try him with anything more secure.

BuzzingNoise · 30/05/2010 20:11

My old cat used to regularly lose his quick release collar (which is good - I dread to think where he could have been stuck if it wasn't quick release) and it quite often would get returned and put through my letter box as it had a name tag on it!

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CarGirl · 31/05/2010 20:33

He is now sporting a blue jingle jangle collar and doesn't seem too put out with it!

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