Scary collar!

[Don Juan's mom]

Don Juan and Zerlina both wear Safe Cat(TM) collars, which have a pull-apart clasp. Zerlina has managed to remove hers a few times, so I know they're OK.

Liz

[elizabethann]

Poor kitty. I hope she's okay. Perhaps you can try break-away collars? If the cat trys to take it off or it gets caught on something, it just unsnaps. This prevents hanging or chocking. Just a thought.

[Sonia59]

Don Juan and Zerlina both wear Safe Cat(TM) collars, which have a pull-apart clasp. Zerlina has managed to remove hers a few times, so I know they're OK.

Liz

It is exactly the kind of collar I chose! Even more scary, isnt' it? But you need to pull quite hard (well, not for a human, but for a little cat, I think) to open it!

I still need to get my guys microchipped!

Jasmine has a chip, but I wanted to put her a collar and may be also a medal because the chip is not visible and if she is lost (there is no reason for it but we never know) people will know she belongs to someone. Microchips are not very common in France so I am not sure everyone will have the reflex to check for it. In the Netherlands where I adopted Jasmine, the chips are put on every cat or dog to be adopted, so everyone knows that if he finds an animal he can go to a vet and find the owner.

[kuhio98]

Halo did the same thing once. Her color is bright red. I caught sight of her out of the corner of my eye and thought blood was coming out of her mouth. I had a heck of a time catching her and getting the collar free. But, since we changed to a break away collar this has not happened again. Halo is a very strong, sturdy cat so maybe that's why it breaks away easier for her.

[sasvermont]

I know how scarey it can be, seeing the kitty with the collar in the wrong place.

One of my cats had her paw and leg up in the neck area one day when I came home from work. I don't recall which cat it was, but that was the last time I ever put a collar on an inside cat.

Another time, I too, had a cat with the collar around her face and in her mouth.

I have heard of cats catching their collars on trees etc. that is why they have breakaway collars for cats. I guess when this was happening to me I didn't have breakaway collars on my cats.

They also have learned how to get rid of the breakaway collars....never to be found again....oh, and that includes an E-collar too. I have yet to find it. I think maybe Juni ate the E-collar. Just kidding.

I only put collars on my cats when they travel, incase they escape somehow. Now that I have four, I won't be travelling with them all! So no collars in this house.

I am glad you found the problem so early!

[Sonia59]

Thanks for your comments, it's useful. I think I will use a collar only when we travel. Or may be I'll try again, but only when I am at home, to see if she gets used to the collar.

I never thought this could happen. Peppito had flea collars for years and he has never tried to get rid of them! Perhaps Jasmine is just too playful right now and thinks it is a new toy

Lisa, Jasmine's daddy had the same reaction as you had, he first thought it was her tongue but did not understand why Jasmine had her tongue out of her mouth while looking at him

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

How scary, Sonia! My little one Snoopy is also wearing a collar (with an elastic part). It is really necessary for her, even as an indoor cat! She never answers when I call her (deaf ), so the little bell around her neck tells me where to look for our little devil

[dab_20]

That must have been scary. Too bad, pink really looks good on Jasmine!

My dog acctually does that with her collar sometimes.