PenrithBeacon Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 We once had a black/grey tabby called Paddy and we thought it would be great idea if we got him a collar. Several weeks later we saw him hanging off the oak tree by the collar. We took it off and we have never used a collar since. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Get your cat microchipped - then there's no need for a collar. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenrithBeacon Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 19 minutes ago, grahame said: Get your cat microchipped - then there's no need for a collar. Our current cat is microchipped, but it seems that you have to pay an additional sum for the device to be effective. We didn't know this until he went missing last week for four days. £18 has been paid more out of anxiety than anything else. He came back home at 0300 last Thursday hungry, thin, very dirty and very confused. He's now OK, sort of, but he's very clingy. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, grahame said: Get your cat microchipped - then there's no need for a collar. It was a flea collar, not one with a name nd contact number on it. Fleas don't tend to take much notice of a microchip! One and only time we've used a collar, though, never again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 13 minutes ago, Hobby said: It was a flea collar, not one with a name nd contact number on it. Fleas don't tend to take much notice of a microchip! Flea control can be undertaken without the need for a collar. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted June 17, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2021 13 hours ago, grahame said: Flea control can be undertaken without the need for a collar. Just as well, it's rather difficult to get the collar on the flea... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 5 minutes ago, Welly said: Just as well, it's rather difficult to get the collar on the flea... Ha ha. But not impossible: 5 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted June 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2021 16 hours ago, grahame said: Get your cat microchipped - then there's no need for a collar. It's soon going to be a legal requirement - as it already is for dogs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57068182 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 1 hour ago, Nick C said: It's soon going to be a legal requirement - as it already is for dogs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57068182 But do you have to snip the capacitors out of the cat for it to run properly? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 1 minute ago, Edwin_m said: But do you have to snip the capacitors out of the cat for it to run properly? He should have had those snipped off when he was neutered. ;-) 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 1 hour ago, grahame said: He should have had those snipped off when he was neutered. ;-) I had a feeling someone would make that point... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 17, 2021 The kitten is now called Nicola! ahes a little fighter, loves climbing up the side of her canvas playpen and ends up looking like a Garfield window stick on Let her out for a fuss and play earlier 34 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tankerman Posted June 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2021 3 hours ago, big jim said: The kitten is now called Nicola! ahes a little fighter, loves climbing up the side of her canvas playpen and ends up looking like a Garfield window stick on Let her out for a fuss and play earlier With those expressions it's already obvious that she's going to be a cat that doesn't miss much. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted June 19, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 19, 2021 On 16/06/2021 at 17:26, grahame said: Get your cat microchipped - then there's no need for a collar. True, I never had a collar on Spike since he got chipped. Part of the reason was all the fur rubbing off his neck, another was he was costing me a fortune in collars/tags as he kept losing them. However when he did have his collar on, it meant the dozens of people who found him in/around their houses could call me right away (up to almost a mile away). They would have had to have taken him to a vet otherwise to get him scanned, which most people probably wouldn't bother with. However, the one time he went AWOL for 3 months, the chip was what got us reunited. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 we never had collars on our cats just in case they got caught on something, somewhere out in the woods and we would have no idea where, this is the same reason we dont have a collar on our dog Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 I'm in the dog house again. Tilly has shed her winter coat and the weather has turned cold! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BrushVeteran Posted June 22, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 22, 2021 Over on the farm where we restore our buses we have an 'adopted' cat we call 'Sidney' and he follows us around everywhere. I do give him a few biscuits now ad again which I 'steal' from my own two at home but last week in the hot weather I unfortunately left my car windows open................................... 27 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted June 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2021 Here are a few more pics and video of Nicola 23 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 On 22/06/2021 at 10:19, BrushVeteran said: Over on the farm where we restore our buses we have an 'adopted' cat we call 'Sidney' and he follows us around everywhere. I do give him a few biscuits now ad again which I 'steal' from my own two at home but last week in the hot weather I unfortunately left my car windows open................................... Catnav, aythangyow. C6T. 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted June 23, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 23, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, big jim said: Here are a few more pics and video of Nicola Something tells me that, if you are fostering her, she will be very hard to give up to a future adopter! Edited June 24, 2021 by J. S. Bach To correct a grammar error. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 All I would say, not as a criticism (I've loved doing the spider finger thing with kittens and find their needle sharp but thankfully powerless claws and teeth no bother) it's probably a bad habit to get them into thinking a human hand is a plaything. Best to use toys for play and reserve tactile handing of young Mog for mutual grooming, feeding etc. Take this advice as you see fit folks, each cat is different and a well looked after cat should be able to differentiate a kill or cuddle hand. But you'll often be able to tell a confused mistreated kitty by its reaction to a hand. C6T. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2021 Never thought I’d that about the hand, she does have toys in the playpen and plays with them a lot which is fantastic considering last week she was so scared and weak 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 I've always found that with a young kitten, 'play fighting' is part of the learning curve that it would have got from its mother. Also my reaction when the claws touch, or the teeth, is NEVER to pull away, that is when damage occurs! After a while the playfight becomes a trust thing, we do it to each other, building up trust so that we know that neither of us will hurt one another. My Rafferty, from the RSPCA about 12 yrears ago has never hurt me (nor me hurt him) as we bonded together this way. He still likes a playfight now and again, we both trust one another, and it always ends with a big 'thank you' head butt from him. Stewart 10 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted June 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2021 (edited) One of our old cats ‘benson’ used to play fight but as soon as you went ‘ah ah ah’ he would stop fighting and start licking you better instead Edited June 24, 2021 by big jim 9 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classsix T Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Absolutely Stewart, it is very much a trust thing between the individual cat and the human and a loved cat will soon differentiate between play and fuss. I only mention it in passing as I have known kittens of some less cat aware people that'll go straight into attack mode when a hand comes towards them, probably because cat never knew the intent of the human. That's obviously not Jim and his cat-centric family and I'm sure Nicola will be fine. C6T. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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