This is a warning about the dangers of flea collars.
Since I have 8x 5 month old kittens, I found that store brought flea collars were effective and I thought that they were relatively safe - most animals wear them at some stage, and no pets in the past have ever had a problem.
2 days ago, I went out to check on all my cats and feed them. I found one of my kittens, Ashara bunched up on the floor, rigid, and when I bent down to examine why she was like that, I just about cried.
She had gotten her flea collar (which none of the other kittens had, had problems with, it wasn't too tight or too loose) up over her jaw, and it was pulling her jaw down and strangling her. She had blood everywhere, I honestly thought she had broken her neck and was dead or near dead. I got the collar off and cleaned her up, and she seemed fine - she had bitten her lower lip to shreds trying to get it off.
But the flea collar caused her unnecessary pain, risk of infection, and if it had taken me longer to find her - possibly death. Please be aware, that catching on objects and fences ect are not the only dangers collars pose.
Since I have 8x 5 month old kittens, I found that store brought flea collars were effective and I thought that they were relatively safe - most animals wear them at some stage, and no pets in the past have ever had a problem.
2 days ago, I went out to check on all my cats and feed them. I found one of my kittens, Ashara bunched up on the floor, rigid, and when I bent down to examine why she was like that, I just about cried.
She had gotten her flea collar (which none of the other kittens had, had problems with, it wasn't too tight or too loose) up over her jaw, and it was pulling her jaw down and strangling her. She had blood everywhere, I honestly thought she had broken her neck and was dead or near dead. I got the collar off and cleaned her up, and she seemed fine - she had bitten her lower lip to shreds trying to get it off.
But the flea collar caused her unnecessary pain, risk of infection, and if it had taken me longer to find her - possibly death. Please be aware, that catching on objects and fences ect are not the only dangers collars pose.