Collar or no collar?

[ilovebagpuss]

Hello my kitten will be ready to go outside shortly and I just wanted a few opinions on collars. Our older boy had a terrible experience where the collar got caught round his jaw when he was little and we had an awful few minutes of horror until it snapped off. We couldn’t catch him as he was going beserk and bleeding and foaming it was awful.
I know they have the safety snap thing but this has put me off. Perhaps it was our fault and not right enough.
Thing is kitten is quite small for her age and I’m worried people will think oh there is a cute lost kitten without a collar.
What do people think ? She is chipped etc just 6 months old.
Thanks

No collar. Even quick release ones can cause injury. Our clinic frequently sees the results of collar injuries, and some result in death. And flea treatments interact with the plastic on the quick release collars causing them to fuse closed.

And, if a cat with a collar gets lost people then tend to ignore it as 'it obviously has an owner', and will have to be in a more worse state than one without a collar before someone thinks they should perhaps help it.

I'm torn. When my Mum's elderly cat got out of her garden and couldn't get back someone found him and contacted the number on his collar tag. He was chipped but I don't know if we would have got him back without the number being obvious.

Listen to thecatneuterer she sees many, many more cats than any of the rest of us do. Her anecdotal evidence is equivalent to hundreds of cat owners' anecdotal evidence.

Paper collars for a while? Our dkitten never goes out of our garden and she was a year in September!! So tiny still!

I don't put collars on my cats, my kitten is now 6 months old and he goes outside, I did worry about someone taking him in but he's chipped and neutered and tends to stay close by. One of my cats somehow managed to get his whole arm through the collar whilst he was still wearing it, he was in a lot of pain from bruising for a good week from that, if he can get stuck like that in a quick release collar it doesn't sit well with me with the strangulation risks.

No collar.

My cat doesn't have a collar. I don't really understand what they're for anymore. In the old days I'd use a collar where we could put our address but these days all cats are microchipped. I can see a collar with a bell is good for alerting wildlife but my cat isn't a big hunter.

I don't like seeing collars on cats, my friends cat got his front leg stuck through the collar and ended up with a horrific injury.

Plus if they don't injure or hang themselves on it chances are they'd lose it as as they go outside!!

Well thank you that’s kind of the way I was going and we live in a quiet residential street with only a few cats so hopefully the neighbours know she’s mine.
I wasn’t sure if it was the incident putting me off and I was being irresponsible not getting her one but I feel better now.