Cat Collars for Rag Doll Cats

All cats deserve a comfortable and safe collar but Rag doll cats can sometimes be a bit hard to correctly fit as to whether their collar is too tight or too loose because of their fluffy fur.

A good measurement I've found is if I can put my finger between the collar and the cat's neck without pulling his head too far off-balance it is a reasonably comfortable fit for him and he can't slip it over his head.

Rascal, my beautiful mate, loves to chase birdies so he has to wear a bell on his collar to give the birds fair warning that they are being stalked. When I watch Rascal go into his 'African Lion Stalking Stance' and he's slithering quietly through the grass; his eyes never leaving the birds for a minute as he slinks forward, does make me feel a bit of a 'meanie'.

Rascal puts so much effort and so many centuries of typical big-cat hunting style into his hunting prowess, that to have a bell tinkling with his every move does seem unfair but on the other hand, if he wasn't wearing the bell, he would probably have no birdies to stalk next summer.

And if he didn't continue to wander far and wide and wasn't a 'dirty-stop-out,' I wouldn't have to have a tag on the collar with his bell so people could read his home phone number and we could go and pick him up if necessary. But without those few precautions attached to his collar we are frightened that we may never see him again.

He's far too friendly and has no perception of "stranger-danger" because he thinks all humans are kind. And that is one of our biggest fears is that someone will cat-nap him and we might never see him again. It would break all our hearts.

So if a cat collar can help to stop our beloved Rascal from being cat-napped or lost, or have no birds to practice his stalking on next summer, then his wearing a very pretty cat collar is a very small price to pay.

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