The Cat Distribution System

[Yvonne Smith]

I would definitely put collars on them, and maybe a tag with your name on it on the collar. That would be cheap "insurance." Let Edna know that your kitties have collars and they are not strays.

Ordered from Amazon, a 6-pack of breakaway cat collars, so we will have extra if one of the babies gets the collar off. I discussed the situation with @Bobby Cole , and he agrees, the collars are a good idea, plus, he will speak to Edna when he sees her and let her know that we put collars on our cats so people will know they are not strays.
That should give her the idea not to trap and give our cats to the animal control people.
There is room inside to add our phone number,

 

[Ken Anderson]

Ordered from Amazon, a 6-pack of breakaway cat collars, so we will have extra if one of the babies gets the collar off.

Although your cat (or environment) may differ, but when I tried breakaway collars, on some cats they'd last a long time, on others not long at all. Noting that Lydia would never come back with her collar, one day I found that immediately after I put the collar on, she reached a paw up to her neck and snapped it off. I'd be afraid to use non-breakaway collars because cats go anywhere they can possible get to, and that chances of a cat getting hung-up somewhere would be too high for me.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Although your cat (or environment) may differ, but when I tried breakaway collars, on some cats they'd last a long time, on others not long at all. Finding that Lydia would never come back with her collar, one day I found that immediately after I put the collar on, she reached a paw up to her neck and snapped it off. I'd be afraid to use non-breakaway collars because cats go anywhere they can possible get to, and that chances of a cat getting hung-up somewhere would be too high for me.

I totally agree with you, and I have never wanted a collar on my cats, even if it was supposed to be a safe breakaway collar. However, now that we are living next to someone who might take our kitty to the animal control to be adopted if she can catch it, and having had cats disappear a few times in the last several years, I am at a place where there has to be a solution to the dilemma.

At this point, it seems like putting a collar on the cats, and telling Edna that our cats have a collar is the best solution I am going to find, aside from trapping them inside of the house 24/7.
I am open to other ideas, for sure ?

So far, our cats seem to always be either in the yard or inside of the house; so if they take the collar off, it is likely that we can find it again. Hopefully, they won’t travel across the lot beside of us to her house (or anywhere else), but the whole possibility has been worrying me.

 

[Marie Miller]

I totally agree with you, and I have never wanted a collar on my cats, even if it was supposed to be a safe breakaway collar. However, now that we are living next to someone who might take our kitty to the animal control to be adopted if she can catch it, and having had cats disappear a few times in the last several years, I am at a place where there has to be a solution to the dilemma.

At this point, it seems like putting a collar on the cats, and telling Edna that our cats have a collar is the best solution I am going to find, aside from trapping them inside of the house 24/7.
I am open to other ideas, for sure ?

So far, our cats seem to always be either in the yard or inside of the house; so if they take the collar off, it is likely that we can find it again. Hopefully, they won’t travel across the lot beside of us to her house (or anywhere else), but the whole possibility has been worrying me.

Can you keep your fur ball indoors only.

 

[Krystal Shay]

Over the years we have had a few cats that simply disappeared and we didn’t know what became of them, and thought they must have either been run over or got in someone’s yard and killed by a dog.
Now, I I have discovered that our neighbor lady rehomes any cats that she can catch to the dog pound animal control.
I think this is probably what happened to our other cats, and I need to figure out how to prevent it from happening to our kitties that we love so much, without having to lock them inside the house.

Her intentions are good. I need to say that.
She puts out food for stray cats, however, any time you are putting out food, any cats in the neighborhood, stray or not will come and eat. This is all well and good.
But, she also puts out traps and catches them and takes the trapped stray cats to the animal control to be neutered or spayed. Also okay.

Here is where the problem comes in.
If the cat is friendly, then animal control does not release it back to her as a stray, they adopt it out.
Even if we had our cats neutered, if Edna traps them and takes them to the dog pound, they will rehome them, because they are beautiful friendly cats and they can sell them to someone.

There is just a small wooded lot between our house and Edna’s house, so even though our cats always have food and spend their time in the house or the yard in nice weather, I am worried that they will venture over there and she will take them to the animal control, and neutered or not, they will put them up for adoption.
Short of locking them inside, I do’not know how to prevent this. I am wondering if a cat collar would let Edna know that these are NOT stray cats ?

Did you have the cat's chipped when you took them into have them fixed? That is the first thing that shelters look for when people bring in cat's; claiming they are strays. They have a little device that scans the cat's neck to see if they are chipped. The chip identifies the owners and has your address and phone number on it. If a person takes a cat to the vet, most vets will also scan the cat to see if it has a chip. If there is no chip.... All of my cats indoor or out have been chipped.

One of my neighbor's cat's went missing for a week. A shelter called them saying it was picked up and brought in. They called my neighbor and said they had their cat. They went and got their kitty and brought it home.

 

[Krystal Shay]

I’m not a fan of any collars on cats. I have seen cats with flea collars on so tight that it rubbed the hair off of the neck and there are some owners that never loosen the collars, as the kitty grows. Plus, the flea medicine on the collar may irritated the kitty’s neck too, or it may be allergic to it. And the biggest reason I don’t like them is that cats can get into very tight places. Collars could catch on something and kitty would not be able to get lose; depending on where that happens, it could leave them wide open to other prey or starvation.

On my security cameras, I have seen two cats pass my door that have tracking collars on. I think they are collars are Bluetooth. As cool as those are, they look a little bulky and uncomfortable on the cat's neck.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I would definitely put collars on them, and maybe a tag with your name on it on the collar. That would be cheap "insurance." Let Edna know that your kitties have collars and they are not strays.

I put collars on my house cats. But darn, people kept returning them
I worried a little about barn cats that they might get hung up on something.