Renter bought a bell collar for the kitten but put it around her tummy
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40193)
Canada
September 15, 2011 8:44am CST
The kitten s not 6 months old yet and my renter who owns the kitten bought a bell collar because she runs downstairs and gets in trouble. Now when I woke up this morning, I heard the bell and found that the kitten was biting because it irritated her and could not pet her because the part of the fur it went over made it go the wrong way. Anyway after a while, I got the collar off. I can attract the kitten because I am home most of the time, and all I need to do is to shake her toy that is a mouse in a cage on a string. Besides I do not want to give mice advanced warning when she goes out and not only that, there are foxes and other wild animals in the city.
So would you have done what I did?
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
15 Sep 11
How cruel!! From what I have read in the couple of discussions you have posted about this renter and her kitten she is one of these people who should not be allowed to own a pet.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
15 Sep 11
She is just into the romanticism of having a pet because it is so cute. And she does not know that much about pets. Ithnk that is because she is so young. I do not think it is right to bell a cat, because well that would alert the mice.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
15 Sep 11
She is an indoor outdoor cat. I do not poison put out for the mice and children get into it. We do live in a mixed neighbourhood with both old people, and people with children of different ages around so there the chance of toddlers getting into any traps or poison. We do not have cat door because there is someone in the neighbourhood who might be a thief and of course Winnipeg being the murder capital of Canada and one of those killers might move here, so that there is no chance of the kitten sneaking a mice in without us knowing about it.
The kitten is only a month or two months old so do not think she needs a bell yet.
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
15 Sep 11
Belling a cat makes them unable to do their job and puts them in danger, sure enough. I guess you should speak to your renter and bring up those points plus the fact that the kitten was uncomfortable. Cats aren't really physically configured for collars, their necks are fragile, unlike dogs. An inside cat shouldn't need a collar. Yes, I might have done what you did.
They put it around her tummy?! How bizarre!
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
15 Sep 11
I was afraid that when the kitten ate, the food would not go down. I will talk to my renter about getting the kitten tagged in her ear so if she runs off, someone will bring her back. But do not know how that would work. The collar was a break away one, but what if it had not been?
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
15 Sep 11
She should be reported for animal cruelty. That is dreadful.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
15 Sep 11
Ido not want to do that. I think that is mostly ignorance and that she thinks that it would be all right. I do know ;that there are harnesses and that would make it easier if they were made for kitties, but it would just have to be in the house.
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@catriana13 (245)
• United States
15 Sep 11
I have trouble thinking that the cat's owner put the collar around it's belly. You mentioned in another post it was a breakaway collar, so that tells me the cat most likely caught the collar on something previously, and pulled it down their body trying to get out of it. This happens a lot, and its why they call them "breakaway" collars. It's designed to prevent choking your cat. As for mousing, oddly enough the bells don't scare the mice at all. They don't tend to notice the correlation between bell sound and cat approach.
Yes I would have removed the collar, but I would also keep it and return it to the cat's owner, and inform them of what happened so they could be aware that the collar is a problem. If you don't do that, then the owner may go and purchase another collar that isn't breakaway, and then the cat could get hurt later.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
15 Sep 11
I have the collar. I think the kitten is too young and she does come when I ring her favorite toy and knows that she should not go downstairs. The collar is too big for her and it should really be around her neck not around a stomach. I hope she gives up the idea of a collar and goes to the vet to get the kitten's ear tattooed.
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