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| 887.1 | Good luck | CRONIC::SHUBS | Howard S Shubs, the Denim Adept | Wed May 17 1995 16:28 | 2 |
| Trying to stop a cat from hunting is futile, but good luck. A belled collar
will only make the cat move quieter.
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| 887.2 | bells didn't work for us | ABACUS::MACDONALD_M | Once Upon A Dream | Wed May 17 1995 16:51 | 9 |
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I have to agree with .1. When our cats were allowed out we tried using
bells. They caught just as many critters. But if you still want to
try it we used rolled leather buckle collars on the cats. We tried the
safety collars and the cats just kept losing them. We never had any
problems with the buckle collars. Now that the cats are indoor cats we
are over run with chipmunks!
MaryAnne
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| 887.3 | You can get cat collars that include an inch or two of elastic | UHUH::TALCOTT | | Thu May 18 1995 07:34 | 4 |
| They don't "break" but the elastic stretches to the point they can pull the
collar over their hedas. I'd imagine they'd be readily available most anywhere.
Trace
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| 887.4 | any department store carries them | DEMON::DEMON::AIKEY | | Thu May 18 1995 09:36 | 12 |
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I have seen the what they call break away callors in K-Mart, Caldor..
The are not that expense either.. But like one of the other notes said
they do come off very easy..
No matter what you do they are going to hunt.. It is natural for
them..........
*joyce
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| 887.5 | JINGLE BELLS | CSLALL::MHOLMES | | Thu May 18 1995 11:45 | 7 |
| I also tried the stretch collars with a bell. Within half an hour they
would come back in the house with no collar. On the up side, however,
whenever the wind blew, there was a lovely bell chorus outside the
house. I never was able to find the collars, though, so I just enjoyed
the music.
Marilyn
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| 887.6 | like balancing a book on your head? | WRKSYS::RICHARDSON | | Thu May 18 1995 13:09 | 26 |
| When I was a kid, the people across the street had an ex-tomcat named
"Meatball" (named by their 5-year-old, but it suited him: he was pretty
tubby!). Meatball was a champion bird-hunter. The lady he was owned
by didn't like finding his "presents" on the back steps, and got him a
collar with a bell. Well, it took Meatball about a week to learn to
run with the collar on without making the bell ring. He was a pretty
smart kitty.
The funniest thing Meatball ever did was when the father of his human
family, who used to go out fishing with my father, caught a really,
really big tuna (near-record size - it just barely fit in the back of
my dad's station wagon!). He decided he was going to take a picture of
it laying across the driveway behind his car with his little trout reel
and fishing basket laying on it, before butchering it for their
freezer. Meatball took one look at the huge fish, and took off! And
Meatball was real fond of (canned) tuna.
The sad tailend of this story is that Meatball became very aggressive
as he got older, and that family ended up giving him away to someone
who lived out in the country so he could live out his days as a barn
mouser. He got so he was far too aggressive with the two little girls
in the family when he was inside, and got into far too many fights if
he was outside.
/Charlotte
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| 887.7 | Escort Flea Collar | NEMAIL::BRENNA | | Mon Jul 15 1996 11:51 | 5 |
| Has anyone heard of the Escort -glow in the dark - flea collar and know
who carries them? My vet carries them but I've moved to the Bedford,
Ma area and he's in Saugus.
Diane
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| 887.8 | | BRAT::MACDONALD_M | Pet Owners Resource Service | Mon Jul 15 1996 12:39 | 4 |
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If you can't find one in your area, I'll bet they'd send you one.
MaryAnne
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