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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / November 2006I'm in the doghouse, LOL!
Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge problem as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective collar and tag anyway. So, about 10 days ago, she lost her collar and tag (again!). Today, I was in the pet store picking up some supplied for Gertie, and I decided to get her another collar... I couldn't resist. The one I got her is a very smart reflective collar. Except it's Barbie Pink! The other cats have very discrete silver reflective collars, but I just had to get Barbie Pink for a premadonna princess. ;o) It's already come in for some comments from Ann, our next door neighbour. Especially given that the minute I put it on her, she shot out of the cat flap and has been whinging and bitching about her new collar to Ann ever since! She has *NO* street cred left with the other Miles cats. First it was a shaved butt after her op, now it's a Barbie Pink reflective collar. I'm trying to decide how to embarrass her next. ;o) Helen M > Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge > problem as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective > collar and tag anyway. Both my cats have reflective collars and Boyfie got his chip a few months ago. I decided not to subject KFC to the stress of having a TED visit for a chip implant as she rarely goes more than a few yards from the house these days. > So, about 10 days ago, she lost her collar and tag (again!). Today, I > was in the pet store picking up some supplied for Gertie, and I [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > silver reflective collars, but I just had to get Barbie Pink for a > premadonna princess. ;o) Both mine have silver collars. I would be very, very afraid to put a Barbie Pink collar on Kitty. I suspect she would smother me in the night if I did. Tweed >> Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge >> problem as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective >> collar and tag anyway. Persia has a breakaway collar and a reflective tag. The tag is engraved with her name and my phone number. It also says she's been microchipped. > Both mine have silver collars. I would be very, very afraid to put a > Barbie Pink collar on Kitty. I suspect she would smother me in the > night if I did. > > Tweed LOL maybe. Persia has a red breakaway collar. When I first got her I ordered a fancy collar with "african" beads on it. The wire got caught in my blanket as Persia was snuggling up next to me. She didn't want to disturb me so she tried to free herself but it was wrapped in the threads of my blanket. I woke up (of course) and saw she was stuck. I freed her from the evil collar. Lesson learned: Don't buy a collar that is cute, buy one that is practical... a breakaway collar. Jill >>> Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge >>> problem as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Don't buy a collar that is cute, buy one that is practical... a > breakaway collar. Persia is an indoor cat, yes? why does she need a collar at all? I put a collar on my two because they go outside and it proves they are owned and not feral, otherwise I wouldn't bother them with something round their neck that they didn't need. Tweed > Persia is an indoor cat, yes? why does she need a collar at all? > I put a collar on my two because they go outside and it proves they are > owned > and not feral, otherwise I wouldn't bother them with something round their > neck that they didn't need. Mandy made one of her unauthorized getaways a year or two ago, after quite a few years of indoors except when on harness and supervised. As I found out, she must have been reported to humane services as 'lost cat stuck in tree' almost immediately; what with the time taken up by my search and Sunday closures, it took a day or two for me to get through to them and discover they had a tabby cat turned in right in my neighbourhood! I bailed her out, found her collar and tag, and put them back on. She hasn't made another getaway, but if she does, I'm prepared. I like the collar-and-tag, because anyone can tell that the cat belongs to someone, even if they don't have a scanner.  SignatureCheryl >>>> Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge >>>> problem as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Tweed Persia lives with me probably because someone thought that way. She had to come from somewhere, didn't she? Front-declawed and spayed but no collar, no tags. She ran out the door about a month after I decided to keep her and gave me a hellacious 24 hours where I thought I'd never see her again. Since then she wears a collar with tags and I had her microchipped. Jill >>>>> Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge >>>>> problem as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Jill TuTu wears a red collar with tags and she also has a microchip. She never goes out, but we never know when the "unexpected" thing happens. Robbie was an indoor cat in the USA, and he crept outside when my parents were away without a collar. He presents as feral when he is stressed so could have been PTS for biting or anything if he was caught. Chris the RPCA lurker spent a lot of time checking the local Fairfax & DC shelters for him, and I & his vet rang them and gave his ID chip number to animal control. Fortunately he pitched up, but had he had a collar on the whole situation would have been a lot easier if he was picked up by animal control. Having said that, Cleo never wears a collar as she gets way too stressed with something around her neck. Helen M On Nov 1, 11:21 pm, "Christina Websell" <spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote: > >>> Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge > >>> problem as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Tweed- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - > Robbie was an indoor cat in the USA, and he crept outside when my > parents were away without a collar. Your parents were away without a collar? How did they find their way home?? :) (Sorry, I couldn't resist... :)) Joyce > > Robbie was an indoor cat in the USA, and he crept outside when my > > parents were away without a collar. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Joyce They both have microchips, LOL! Helen M I put collars on all my indoor cats, all breakaway collars cause if they ever DO escape, someone who might not readily have a microchip scanner will know that they are at least owned by SOMEONE. I got the idea when I first got Imp. Without it, he just looks like another black cat, and since he's skittish he could EASILY be mistaken for just another stray. Course they are also chipped too, just in case. Mischief i put a collar on her with a bell on it cause she IS named that for a reason and i wanted to know where she was sneaking around to. But of course she has figured out to slink around without jingling it. Imp's collar orginally had a bell but i took it off cause he was running around all scared at the NOISE around his neck. Besides, i feel it gives them character. :) Kristi > I put collars on all my indoor cats, all breakaway collars cause if > they ever DO escape, someone who might not readily have a microchip > scanner will know that they are at least owned by SOMEONE. Exactly! And Persia wasn't thrilled with the idea at first, either, but she got used to it. > Besides, i feel it gives them character. :) > > Kristi It's sort of like kitty jewelry. Persia doesn't go anywhere but she looks very pretty in her bright red collar :) Jill > I would be very, very afraid to put a Barbie Pink collar on Kitty. > I suspect she would smother me in the night if I did. Boyfriend would probably be extremely mellow about it, though. :) Joyce > Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge > problem as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Helen M She'll geet her revenge somehow. ;-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge > problem as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Helen M LOL She'll be fine... she's enjoying sporting the prom queen look! Maybe add some rhinestones next time :) Jill > Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge problem > as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective collar and > tag anyway. How often do the chips get checked in the UK? I know I wouldn't get anything done about it if I found a lost cat - I'd put some signs up round the village, and if they didn't produce a result I'd just take it in. I've only heard of a chip getting checked once, and I saw it happening. An old blind man had collapsed in the street, and the ambulance crew was applying a hand scanner to his dog's ear so they could check who he was. This is possibly a better argument for chipping OAPs than pets. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 >> Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge >> problem as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective >> collar and tag anyway. > > How often do the chips get checked in the UK? Every time a stray cat gets taken to a vet, or animal charity. > I know I wouldn't get > anything done about it if I found a lost cat - I'd put some signs up > round the village, and if they didn't produce a result I'd just take > it in. To where? > I've only heard of a chip getting checked once, and I saw it > happening. > An old blind man had collapsed in the street, and the ambulance crew > was applying a hand scanner to his dog's ear so they could check who > he > was. This is possibly a better argument for chipping OAPs than pets. PPFFFFF. Ridiculous argument. Oh, please... :-// > How often do the chips get checked in the UK? I know I wouldn't get > anything done about it if I found a lost cat - I'd put some signs up > round the village, and if they didn't produce a result I'd just take > it in. Really? I certainly would. First I'd put up signs and ads on local Internet sites, etc, and if I got no response from that, then I'd check to see if the kitty was microchipped. It's getting more common, so the chances are better than they used to be that the cat would have one. It would be heartbreaking for the cat's humans if they went to the trouble of putting in a microchip and then having the cat disappear, never to be found. Joyce >> How often do the chips get checked in the UK? I know I wouldn't get >> anything done about it if I found a lost cat - I'd put some signs up >> round the village, and if they didn't produce a result I'd just take >> it in. > Really? I certainly would. First I'd put up signs and ads on local > Internet sites, There isn't a "local Internet site" I know of. Gumtree Edinburgh and ed.general on Usenet are the closest I know of but neither gets much use and I've never seen a lost-pet ad on either from anywhere near here. > etc, and if I got no response from that, then I'd check to see if the > kitty was microchipped. How? Our vet is 3 miles away (meaning an hour each way in a basket for the cat, we don't have a car) and would charge a lot to do it. There's a rescue centre somewhat nearer, but it has such terrible conditions I'd never take a cat to it and it possibly doesn't have a chip reader anyway. The Edinburgh city pound is nearly two hours away by bus and I doubt whether they'd let me have the cat back after taking it in, I'd probably be taking it to its death. Ditto the SPCA, they kill almost all the animals they take. So the obvious thing would be to adopt it - what's one more when we've got six already? - and wait to see if an owner ever turned up. The village post office is the usual place to post lost cat ads. None of ours are microchipped. Most have collars with our phone number machine-embroidered on them. I've never heard of a case in Scotland where microchips were any use. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 > >> How often do the chips get checked in the UK? I know I wouldn't get > >> anything done about it if I found a lost cat - I'd put some signs up > >> round the village, and if they didn't produce a result I'd just take > >> it in. > > Really? I certainly would. First I'd put up signs and ads on local > > Internet sites, > There isn't a "local Internet site" I know of. Gumtree Edinburgh and > ed.general on Usenet are the closest I know of but neither gets much > use and I've never seen a lost-pet ad on either from anywhere near here. Well, we've got a site called craigslist - it's international, but it focuses on local areas, and a lot of people in my area use it - and it would be an ideal place to post a "found kitty" ad. > > etc, and if I got no response from that, then I'd check to see if the > > kitty was microchipped. > How? Our vet is 3 miles away (meaning an hour each way in a basket for > the cat, we don't have a car) and would charge a lot to do it. I would take the cat to a shelter. And there were plenty of vets around here. I don't know what they charge, though. I mean, all they have to do is run a scanner over the cat! One thing that really bugs me is that there's no single standard microchip format, so a facility could only detect chips that their scanners can read. Kind of defeats the purpose... Joyce All our local vets & rescue organisations routinely scan strays. I've had situations where my cats have been picked up by well meaning strangers and taken to the vet as supposed strays. I recall an incident when we lived in London, where HRFL Tiger was caught by a new neighbour when he was sunbathing outside because she thought he had hurt himself. (He hadn't, he was just sunbathing and couldn't be bothered to move). She took him to the local vet and the locum vet there scanned him for a microchip as he had lost his collar. Later that day, his regular vet came into the surgery and recognised him and was quite happy to board him until I got home, but the microchip meant that the vet who had never seen him before was able to contact me quickly. Helen M On Nov 1, 10:28 pm, Jack Campin - bogus address <b...@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge problem > > as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective collar and [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 > stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 > All our local vets & rescue organisations routinely scan strays. Yep, that was the first thing Persia's vet did when I brought her in. She had no collar so they scanned her for a chip. No chip, either. And she didn't seem inclined to go anywhere (hell, she *demanded* I let her into my apartment!) so I got her chipped after the first time she slipped out the door and ran off. She got a collar and tags almost immediately, though. Now almost 5 years later (has it really been that long?!) she's got her own furniture, her own cushions, a cushy pyramid bed, a crackle-sack, toys all over the place, an outdoor kitty walk... my my my, she's got me wrapped me right around her little paw! :D Jill >Now almost 5 years later (has it really been that long?!) she's got her own >furniture, her own cushions, a cushy pyramid bed, a crackle-sack, toys all >over the place, an outdoor kitty walk... my my my, she's got me wrapped me >right around her little paw! :D You know what - that reminds me veeery much on my home. There are cat-cushions, cat-baskets, cat-toys, cat-sofas (2) and what do I know more... And in the evening they all try to enter my sofa (with me on it)<g> My living room must look strange to visitors.<g> Bettina >> Now almost 5 years later (has it really been that long?!) she's got >> her own furniture, her own cushions, a cushy pyramid bed, a [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Bettina Only to visitors that don't understand cats. :-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > >> Now almost 5 years later (has it really been that long?!) she's got > >> her own furniture, her own cushions, a cushy pyramid bed, a [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > > > Bettina > Only to visitors that don't understand cats. :-) Yes! I would feel quite at home in such a place. Joyce > You know what - that reminds me veeery much on my home. > There are cat-cushions, cat-baskets, cat-toys, cat-sofas (2) and what > do I know more... > And in the evening they all try to enter my sofa (with me on it)<g> > > My living room must look strange to visitors.<g>/// LOL, in my house my cats don't have *catbeds*, they have their own arm chairs! I have a really nice rocking chair that I've had for several years and is very comfortable.... I've sat in it twice as it's usually occupied by a feline resident! Helen M >Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge problem >as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective collar and [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >Helen M I don't know, Helen. I'd sleep with one eye open, if I were you, no pun intended. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War She's already extracting her revenge... she headbutted my cup of tea and it went straight in my lap.... ;o) Helen M > >Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge problem > >as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective collar and [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Make Levees, Not War- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - > She's already extracting her revenge... she headbutted my cup of tea > and it went straight in my lap.... ;o) > > Helen M What a clever girl. ;o) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Lily has a habit of losing her collar & tag. This is not a huge problem > as she has an ID chip, but I like her to wear a reflective collar and [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > reflective collars, but I just had to get Barbie Pink for a premadonna > princess. ;o) I DON'T CARE IF YOU DO HAVE SOME OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL FUR GONE AND ARE WEARING A PINK COLLAR. YOU IS STILL THE MOST BEAUTIMUS GIRLCAT IN THE WORLD. LOVE, QUI GUN KIT > I DON'T CARE IF YOU DO HAVE SOME OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL FUR GONE AND ARE WEARING > A PINK COLLAR. YOU IS STILL THE MOST BEAUTIMUS GIRLCAT IN THE WORLD. > > LOVE, > > QUI GUN KIT FANGU MY WINK WINK BOY. :o) My fur is growing back, and meowie says I am a beautiful girlcat now. Love and purrs and headbutts Miss Lily Whiskers. >> I DON'T CARE IF YOU DO HAVE SOME OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL FUR GONE AND ARE >> WEARING [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Miss Lily Whiskers. WOW!!! I'M GOING TO GHOST ON OVER WHEN THE FAMBLY IS ASLEEP TONIGHT! MY LOVE TO MY MOST PRECIOUS AND BEAUTIMUS GIRLCAT. QUI GUN KIT |
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