Do your indoor onlies wear collars....why or why not?

Wow, I'm glad they stopped wearing the flea collars before they got hurt. *shiver*

I don't show cats, but my oldest wore a collar for a few years and had a "collar mark" and it never grew hair back where the collar was.

I'll never put one of my babies in a collar again.

(It also helps that we have two doors and stairs to go through before anyone can escape out....not that anyone tries)

All three of my indoor cats wear collars (breakaway collars). All three are also microchipped, however, if any of them (God forbid) were to manage to get out the front door, anyone who picked up him or her up probably wouldn't think about the possibility of the cat being microchipped, so my hope is that when they see the cat is wearing a collar, they will know that it belongs to someone and then perhaps take it to a vet to get the chip read. That's my hope, anyway, should that ever happen. I don't have ID tags on them.

Peace is the only one with a collar, bell, and tag that he'll wear when his neck is bigger. The other cats have their special "going out" collars for vet visits that has an ID tag and rabie tag on it.

Oliver's collared and chipped... all precautions for the "just in case".... the collar is also for my health, haha... after Oliver's monthly bath, he's "naked" (aka collarless) until he's all dry (and/or til the collar's dry - it's a cotton one from ragtime and sometimes I give it a scrub when he's getting his bath)... if he's not dry by bedtime and is still naked it's like living with a sniper! I swear he gets that he's stealth without it and he's like a giant ball of heartattack flying at me in the dark, "just for fun" haha... if I had to live with him being naked on a daily basis, I wouldn't make it to 24! It doesnt seem to bother him ever and has a quick release if he gets caught (and it works, he's gone exploring in the basement and gotten caught on the boxes that hold various holiday decorations and all my college crap)... he also occasionally (loosely!) wears bandanas, hehe - again they dont bother him and he easily gets out of them

Isadora wears a collar because she has been known to sneak out (she's quite the houdini). Spot does not because she always takes it off somehow. Even if she did sneak out, she'd be an easy one to catch.

Demetri doesn't wear a collar as he's a show cat, he is microchipped though.

My past indoor only cats all wore collars with tags and were chippped. None of them tried to escape I just feel that the more forms of ID they have the better chance of them being returned should they ever get out.

Originally Posted by angelkitty

They were flea collars, but that's it..

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Please take the flea collars off your cats, besides not working they are poisonous and can cause death.

My cats do not wear collars. Mickey gets out of the house sometimes.....I tried keeping collars on him, but he would always come back with it gone. I gave up.

Originally Posted by BuzbyJLC10

Oliver's collared and chipped... all precautions for the "just in case"...

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Same thoughts as me

everyone has there own ideas on wheather a cat should wear a collar or not i see it being a good idea if the cat can or might take off for any given reason maybe something would scare it and it would dart out at least he has I.D but if you put a collar on them make sure it is a collar made for cats so that it stretches when it is pulled on in case kitty gets stuck on something it will not choke him he will be able to get out of it

Twinkle does not wear a collar.
She FREAKED out when I put one on her, a two different times she got her lower jaw 'stuck' in it! It was one of those break away collars, but still she was running around and squirming something fierce, and hollering; I would hate for that to have happened during the day when we weren't home.

They are all trained to wear collars and they are all chipped.
They wear their collars when they travel only.

The only exception is Cassi.
Since she's a formal feral and a door darter, she wears visible ID because chances are pretty good that she'd revert to a feral state if she got outdoors since she was grown when trapped.

Mittens and Cassy do not wear collars nor are they chipped.


Cassy used to be a 'door darter', after being with her adopted mommy for a while, she knew she had it good, now, she is afraid of going outside!

Gizmo has had a collar from the beginning. He accepted it pretty quickly and I've never has issue with him or the collar. He's a totally indoor cat but on the off chance one day he does decide to make run for it, I feel better knowing he has some kind of ID.

When I first brought Jasmine home a few weeks ago, I put a collar on her with a bell so I could hear where she was since she was hiding a lot.

Now she is not wearing one. She somehow managed to put her leg through it lol. I guess I didn't make it tight enough. She's an indoor only cat and seems to have no interest in going outside. When we're traveling I will probably put one on just in case. But when she's home, nah.

My best friend's kitty wears one with bell on it just because she's so hyper that they like to know where she is/when she is coming.

It was actually pretty useful - they'd been losing stuff (forks, pens, coins, etc.) and they were trying to figure out where it was all going. They figured it out one day when they heard her bell under the couch - moved the couch and found 75 pens (yes 75) about 10 dollars in change, and half their silverware.

This is a teeny tiny cat - I don't know how she manages to drag all that stuff off!

I don't like the idea of collars on cats because they can accidentally strangle themselves on most. Microchipping works for life. My indoor cats don't have collars either.

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Blossom doesn't wear a collar. She's indoor only & its law in my state to have all dogs & cats microchipped, which she is. When she was a baby I tried putting a bell collar on her & she went nuts. It is & was a great struggle to have her hold still long enough to put a collar on her. Now I don't bother.

My three do not wear collars It is only because of bad past experience. When I was younger, one of our cats almost hung itself by it getting caught on a fence. She was saved only by the fact that I saw it happen and get her uncaught before the worst happened. Anyway, I know they have the safty collars but I guess I was so traumatized by the whole thing, I just have a hard time doing it even though our cats are all indoors.

None of my cats wear a collar, but all of them are microchipped.