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Christina Websell - 08 Oct 2004 03:15 GMT

Oh, do get your cats a collar with a bell on,( joke) like I did a few days
ago, to stop Boyfriend catching things.
It doesn't work.
Something small and brown suddenly shot across the kitchen floor (door open)
with BF after it (rat, mouse?) They rushed out into the garden. Did he get
it or not? Don't know.
Kitty FC taught him well, he's turning into a real hunter.

I'm proud of him. He was only a young chap when he got lost, maybe eight or
nine months old and had the sense to come to a house that was prepared to
take him in.
Kitty hasn't made it easy for him as she's jealous of her home. She boxes
his ears. He doesn't care because he's decided he wants to live here.
I'm not surprised. It's quite nice.

Tweed

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EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) - 08 Oct 2004 03:34 GMT

> Oh, do get your cats a collar with a bell on,( joke) like I did a few days
> ago, to stop Boyfriend catching things.
> It doesn't work.

I learned that years and years ago, when I put a bell on my
first cat, because he kept leaving daily "gifts" of
fresh-killed robins on the front doormat. He could move so
smoothly that the bell never let out the least jingle -
until he leaped for the bird, and then it was too late!

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Adrian - 09 Oct 2004 12:15 GMT

> Oh, do get your cats a collar with a bell on,( joke) like I did a few
> days ago, to stop Boyfriend catching things.
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>
> Tweed

I realised years ago that bells don't stop cats catching things. Baggy
has a 2 bells on his collar, the only use they are is, I can here him
coming.

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Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.

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Christina Websell - 10 Oct 2004 02:03 GMT

>> Oh, do get your cats a collar with a bell on,( joke) like I did a few
>> days ago, to stop Boyfriend catching things.
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> has a 2 bells on his collar, the only use they are is, I can here him
> coming.

I believe things I read, and I read that putting a bell on would do the
trick. Boyfriend has caught more prey since he had his bell on than he did
in the last few weeks without one.
I do like to hear him coming though. It certainly makes it harder for him
to hide. Jingle, jingle. Ah, there you are Boykie (nickname) Mrrrp?
Thought you couldn't see me.
Tough luck chap, I now know where you are ;-))

Tweed

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Mischief - 10 Oct 2004 01:42 GMT

When I first got Imp, the collar i bought him had a bell on it. But I
could tell by his slicking to and fro that he was freaked out by it.

But when Mischief showed up, and got her little nose into everything
and created 'mischief' everywhere she went, I decided to get a collar
on her.
She's an indoor cat, but I was paranoid of what she would get into,
plus I have two parakeets and at that time a hamster. So I put it on
so I could at least know where she was. There would be times where it
would be way too quiet, and I'm lik, "uh, Mischief? where are you?"

Kinda like putting a bell on a kid, or in this case, a furkid. :)

Kristi

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