There! This is what I think of that stupid collar

I should've posted this sooner. But I got sick. Anyways it was really funny at the time.

Aya is indoors but I keep a collar on her just in case she ever got out. About a week ago I noticed she's wearing the fur down around her neck scritching at it. She's on Revolution so no buggies. We just don't like our collar. I've noticed the few times I've taken it off/on that she puts up a fight.

Anyway I took it off for a while so her fur could fluff out and regrow. I stuck it on a shelf which is open. She decided that off her neck it was a toy and removed it from the shelf. Periodically over the next few days she would pick it up, carry it around the apartment like prey or scoot it around the floor. So, its a kitty toy, now eh?

Then about a week ago, I was on the skype with my mom. Aya usually feels like she's being ignored and bites my ankles or grooms or mews at the ceiling while I talk on the phone. Anyways she grabs the collar off the floor with her mouth. Climbs up the sofa and onto the window ledge, a shelf really. And drops it over the edge into her litter box onto a fresh heap of poo! It looked very deliberate to me.

So, that's what we think of the collar after all?

Needless to say, the used collar went straight into the bin along with the poo...

Now that is truly a unique way to get attention - and make a statement about the collar at the same time!

So.... are you going to be replacing the collar? Or did Aya win this battle?

Ima de wa collar o tskeru jikan yasumi da to omou...

I think we're taking a vacation from collar wearing, though next time I have to cross the island to get a bag of one of her preferred litter types from the pet store I will hunt for a new one. I't like to find one of the ones with the fleece inside as they seem to wear on the fur less. But I haven't seen them in Japan.

Ha ha!
Omoshiroii! Aya wa atama ii desu ne!
I also haven't seen the fleece or soft-lined collars in Japan. Probably have to special-order them.
By the way, are you using Japanese brand litter or importing/acquiring American? Which brand? We are using this one that has a picture of a cat holding its nose. We have tried two other brands, but hated them both! The cats don't seem to care!

Honto atama ga ii neko desu yo.

Ah, we use the 'lion' litter too. Unscented version. It really does the best at odor control. Probably the best clumping litter here. Actually, I mix it with a more clay-ish type called 'Dream sand' about 60/40. The dream sand comes from the pet store but is much cheaper than the small bags of lion litter (that's what the cat holding nose brand is). If I had to chose I would screw the cost and do all lion litter. The dream sand does not clump really and is dusty.

I might have my mom hunt down a collar since she's already buying me feliway from the USA.

I'd love to hear about your 'international travel with kitties' adventure sometime, pm me!

Thats hilarious. x

Well, she is certainly a lady who makes her opinions known huh?!?

Neko took his collar off one day while I was at work. I found it stuffed under the bed with his toy stash Not as hilarious as what Aya did though, LOVE it!

She certainly showed you, didn't she? That's hysterical!

Aya doesn't want a collar. She wants a crown because she is a princess.

Aww, bless her - that's so funny!

Smart kitty!!!

Originally Posted by StarryEyedTiGeR

Smart kitty!!!

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Is Aya a Japanese Bobtail? She kind of looks like the ones I saw in my cat fancy magazine

Originally Posted by Tavia'smom

Is Aya a Japanese Bobtail? She kind of looks like the ones I saw in my cat fancy magazine

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Not really, she's a Japanese street cat. I'm not an expert, but think she just about meets the breed standard, except we haz tail. I picked her up off the street when she was a wee sick litle kitten. They still allow new Japanese DSH with the bobtail characteristic to be introduced into purebred lines. So, the gene pool has to be similar. There are some bobtailed strays in the neighborhood as well.

She's very smart (if this story didn't clue you in already), has the trangle head, silky bunny fur with no undercoat adn the longer back legs. She's very active, likes water and is somewhat vocal (she has a varied repetoire of chirps trills and mews she uses to talk to you). At 3.2 kilos she's a smallish cat. And of course, she's a mi-ke (calico).

That's so funny! I got a total kick out of your story.