cats and scrunchies

[amalan11]

There is an interesting  article on the ABC news site on a  new finding that it is very effective to put a bright hair scrunchie on cats to stop hunting  of wildlife.It says that a 2 year study has shown the bright colour can cut down by 50% the amount of dead wildlife.My boy is in disgrace  over the killing of a  dove and is now in a bell collar.I may try a bright scrunchie if he learns to quiet his bell.

Very interesting  I thought 

[icyfroth]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

Although that would be another way to help save wildlife from cats, I suppose.

Yes you could do that to humans as well seen they are the most destructive thing on this earth for killing off wild life.

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Yeah well scrunchies were in fashion for a while, not so much now.

You could always wear one if you were so inclined.

I used to wear one around my ponytail. Many years ago. Hopefully some wildlife was saved by me doing so.

[happyroo_bunji]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

Where would you put the scrunchy, hopefully not around the cats neck, unless it was loose.

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I would put it over the top of the collar

[imastawka]

My daughter's cat used to use his paw to push

his bell into his mouth and hold it while stalking birds.

[icyfroth]

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@happyroo_bunji wrote:

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

Where would you put the scrunchy, hopefully not around the cats neck, unless it was loose.

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I would put it over the top of the collar

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lol

[simone4010]

Electric, I would have thought with a title of 'Cats and scrunchies' that it was obvious it was a cat thread lol.

Poppy disguised in a fish suit

[zanadoo_56]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

Zanadoo my cat is a Ebony Oriental, she goes out side but I shut her in after 8.30 at night.

She has bought in the odd Sparrow, always alive, I find the best thing is to put the bird out in a tree to rest then they fly away.

I am lucky by the beach we dont have many native birds she can catch and NZ does not have all those beautiful Parrots like Australia.

The most damage to wild life I saw in  Australia was done by Dogs not cats.

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The 'great hunter of chicken wings' was an Aby.  She only ever caught introduced birds - usually starlings or blackbirds.  On one occasion she was stalking a magpie that already knew she was there (cats are so silly sometimes - there's no point in crouching down all hidden if the tail is sticking straight up and twitching) so the bird just kept moving out of her sight.

But just in case the magpie and any other feathered friends didn't know there was a cat about, along came a Willie Wagtail that not only made quite a racket, it dived bombed her....more than once.  I called out to my cat and she couldn't wait to get back inside the house.  Not to put too fine a point on it...she ran like hell into the house and behind the TV.

Cat - 0

Willie Wagtail - 1

[annies_fancy_dress]

A scrunchy is simply a tube of fabric bunched up over a smaller circle of elastic.

Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should one be put on a cat.

INSTEAD, thread your cats collar thru the 'scrunchy' after removing the elastic.

Please check the fabric regularly as any worn bits may catch on things and 'trap' the cat.

NEVER put any elastic or other stretchy things like rubber bands on any animal.

[azureline**]

Wouldn't a bright collar work just as well?

I don't have cats............ unless you count the 2 neighbours cats that live in my pool yard.

I am always waiting for that screech of brakes and thud, when they go home, across the road.

[lionrose.7]

I alway buy Lilli a bright collar.

Strange cat, when she sees the new collar she gets excited and lets me put it on her with out any fight at all.

I always try to get the bright pink on so people know she is a girl.

She also has a tag and the bell hits the tag I can hear her coming form a hundred yards away, I think the Sparrows over here are deaf and blind.

[amalan11]

That was one thing it did not explain ,guess it was just put on over head . I did wonder how safe it would be for cat  but thats a good idea to thread collar  through it. 

Love the cat who put his bell in his mouth,one clever kitty.Last time I had a collar  on Oscar he learnt to get it under his chin in chest fur and I solved by attach ing 2 more bells  spaced out ,sadly for the dove the other day I removed it a few months ago.due to him being cut by the metal  buckle.