Cat collars - please think and fit carefully

[paddythepooch]

I'm sure this has been done before but wanted to post a reminder to think carefully about whether to fit a collate and what type to use.

We found a stray cat last night in our house and realised it had its supposed quick release collar caught round its front leg. Really appalling stench and clearly very badly injured. Completely starving.

We managed to take it to the Blue cross in Victoria. It was chipped. I won't go into details but it was clear that the poor thing has had this wound for weeks. I hope it survives.

I have a cat and will never, ever put a collar of any type on it

Btw blue cross were wonderful. RSPCA unobtainable

All 5 of my Cats refuse to wear collars though they are all micro chipped .

I just wish the busy bodies would stop thinking they are strays and keep feeding them , They certainly don't look stray .

Glad the Cat is ok now OP lucky you found him .

Its sll about risk assessment isnt it.. yes there are lots of collar injuries but there are also lots of cats injured by being hit by cars... a reflective collar might save a life. I don't put collars on purely for decoration to make a cat look pretty.. its a pure safety issue. I am linked onto several cat rescue and cat lost n found fb pages so gets lots feeds about lost, injured and road casualty cats..... at least one post per week just in my area of cat killed or injured on road but most with no collar on ... or microchip. Only one post in last year about collar injuries.

My DF is a vet and hates collars on cats. Years ago, he had to keep a cat in the surgery overnight, and its collar got caught on a bar of the cage and the cat was strangled.

Yeah I only used to put the collar on my cat when she went out, there's no need for them to wear them indoors and I didn't want her catching it on something in the house while I was out. But I wonder how many cats your DF never saw at all because they never were hit by that car because the driver saw them in time?