Cats compulsory collars

Re: Cats compulsory collars

NuttyNu — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:17:24 GMT

Personally, i would like this to be legal but with practicality of it actually working - i dont think it would be! How do people enforce it? Personally, i do not think that the dog one is really enforced - how many stray dogs do you get in without collars - we used to get quite a few as people did not think them necc. when in home environment but if they escaped then the dogs would be breaking the law!! I would think it more practical for the dogs and cats to be, by law, microchipped as like people say, the cats will loose the collar very easily - mine go through loads (When they are actually awake enough to go outside!) and they are normally found in my neghbours garden when he hacks back all the bushes!

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Vicky RVN — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:49:08 GMT

I don't have address on Jacks tag, was always under the impression it's not a good idea from a security point of view? I have my surname, home no, mob no, vets no and 'i am microchipped'.

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Vicky RVN — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:47:28 GMT

Jack ALWAYS wears a collar with an id tag (with 3 phone numbers on it cos i'm paranoid!)! Even at home, in case he escapes. But with a cat it's different because they loose them so frequently. The thought of vets not checking for chips is shocking! It takes two seconds!

Re: Cats compulsory collars

jan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:20:06 GMT

Collers with names,address & phone. we had a pet found by a client 300 miles away on bank holiday follwed his dog. couldnt contact council etc Bank holiday. Came to us tuesday (3 days missing) Scanned. Chipped. owner found BUT could have been done SO MUCH easier. Finder vwas within 2 miles of owners home. Dog ended up 300 hundred miles away. If the finder handnt have been so concerned the pet may never have ended up at a v/s & scanned

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Julie — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:08:11 GMT

[quote user="Katy"]

They are both microchipped, but having seen how many vets don't actually scan stray cats I would say they aren't that useful.

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Really. Every vet that I have worked with has scanned strays. Have you actually work with vets who don't scan?

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Gillian Mostyn — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:31:28 GMT

[quote user="Katy"]They are both microchipped, but having seen how many vets don't actually scan stray cats I would say they aren't that useful.[/quote]

Really. That's awful - it is the first thing we do with EVERY stray animal. We routinely chip parrots and tortoises - so those also get scanned. We have reunited an african grey parrot with its owner via a chip!

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Deemus — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:44:39 GMT

[quote user="Kathryn Welsh"]Les i'm with you, my girlie hardly ever has her collar on! Will put it on if going somewhere but if she's just out in the fields then i don't bother! Bad me!!

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Have to admit I'm the same as you and Les. Jack hardly ever wears his collar but is chipped. He managed to lose it once in a big park, the woman who found it rang the number and just so happens she was coming in to work later on that day. How lucky was that?

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Kathryn Welsh — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:49:45 GMT

Les i'm with you, my girlie hardly ever has her collar on! Will put it on if going somewhere but if she's just out in the fields then i don't bother! Bad me!!

Re: Cats compulsory collars

A Little TLC — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:04:24 GMT

no matter what type of collar my cat has, he loses avery single one.... how he does it, i do not know!

Re: Cats compulsory collars

les punton — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:19:59 GMT

I think cats protection do good ones where they snap open but not sure where you get them from? Also im a bit naughty, my dog doesnt always wear a collar when im out in the country but she is chipped!

snap across the knuckes for me!!

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Vicky RVN — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:11:46 GMT

My concern over this is if people use the quick release collars (like you should!) and a cat looses it, which it often does and is picked up and owners are told off/fined for having no collar on their cat. If their cat looses the collar it's not there fault!

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Deemus — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:00:45 GMT

[quote user="Katy"]

They are both microchipped, but having seen how many vets don't actually scan stray cats I would say they aren't that useful.

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Really? I would have thought that that was pretty much standard procedure with any stray animal.

I would only use the snap collars. Too many inuries seen with the elasticated type. Nasty!

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Katy — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:27:39 GMT

My two used to wear collars until Felix got his stuck in his mouth. And it was 2 fingers tight!

However, with the little git going missing occasionally, and his wandering near what I class as a busy road, and him wandering further than I would like, i'm buying them both collars this weekend.

They are both microchipped, but having seen how many vets don't actually scan stray cats I would say they aren't that useful.

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Julie — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:26:46 GMT

Mine have 'quick release' collars and are also chipped. Never had a problem with the collars (have used them for years) apart from the cats coming home without the collars which is when they have gone through the bushes or up the trees and caught on something.

Usually find the collars somwhere in our garden. Would not use any other collar on my cats as have seen the damage caused by elasticated collars

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Gillian Mostyn — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:05:49 GMT

I'm afraid I have to disagree with you there. If collars are tight enough (only 2 fingers loose) and a quick-release type, they are very unlikely to cause a problem. Placed properly, you can hardly see a cat's collar within the fur. Unfortunately a lot of owners put it onto the fur, not the neck! And the loose ones annoy the cat much more!

It would be lovely if all cats were microchipped - I especially recommend it for indoor cats as they often don't wear collars and, if they do get out, are far more likely to get lost! But unfortunately most aren't chipped - so at least with a collar and disc they have a chance of being returned!

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Saskia Quinn — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:29:54 GMT

[quote user="Caro Laithwaite"]

I doubt it is true. Cats are not the same as dogs in the eyes of the law so would say it is verbal spam.

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I am with Carolyn on this one. As well as the fact, my cats used to all wear collars until one of them caused themselves an injury - managed to get collar half around front leg which caused a would under her right shoulder, due to collar getting caught.

So, for that reason, I feel any cat with access to outdoors should NOT be wearing a collar, we all know how inquisitive cats are - more likely to get themselves in bother by wearing a collar and more likely to get caught, fatally in a hedge for example by thier collar and hang themselves, so for that reason alone, I would say that is a load of nonsense.

Re: Cats compulsory collars

Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:21:04 GMT

I doubt it is true. Cats are not the same as dogs in the eyes of the law so would say it is verbal spam.

Re: Cats compulsory collars

loopylou711 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:10:21 GMT

ah hope not!! None of mine have collars... all indoor so no need really!!