Tuesday

[silverthorne]

Finally got myself financially straightened out enough to take Foot in to get chipped (Ula came 'equipped' with one already). So, after Tuesday, Foot, between tags, collar and now chip, will be as ID-entifiable as I can possibly make her short of tattoing her personal information on her rump. :)

I will feel SO much better once I get this done.

So, I have a question for everyone. If you had a pet, and you got them chipped, would you still make them wear a collar and tags or not? I'd like to know reasoning too, if you don't mind.

Also, (like I need to say that with you guys, heh), keep it polite with each other if there's a disagreement. *HUGS*

Comments

[showyourguns.livejournal.com]

Ditto, I would also - except (and I'm not sure if this is actually true, I've just heard it) that collars with bells on can make cats deaf? Either way it isn't like a collar MUST come with a bell on.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

TBH, I clip the bells off. It annoys me as much as it annoys the cats, their tags make enough noise, cats can learn to without making the bells jingle anyway, and, quite frankly, if Foot and Ula wound up outside, I'd rather they be able to sneak up on, and catch, some sort of dinner while they're on their own rather than starve. It's not like cats are incredible hunters that catch their prey every single time, and I'd rather a bird or two go to critter heaven than my cat.

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

With the dog ages ago, I superglued the ID and rabies tags back-to-back so they wouldn't jangle and drive me 100% insane.
With the current cats, since they live outdoors, I have tried collars and tags many times. And many times, both Freakshow and Archie have lost the collars in the woods in less than 24 hours. I now just leave them collarless, keep the tags indoors where I can find them if necessary, and hope for the best. However, since we are rural and you so are not, I recommend you leave collars on your cats, if they will already wear them without complaint.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, cats are a lot better at getting their collars off...which was my bottom line reasoning for getting them chipped as well. :)