On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Bill Marshall wrote:

> I completely agree.  The first (and last) time I tried to put a collar on my
> cat, Vishnu, he ran around cowering all day.  When I came home later that
> evening, he had managed to put his entire right leg up through the collar, to the
> shoulder.  He came limping up to me with the leg sticking up in the air,
> looking MOST displeased.  We had to cut off the collar to free him.

My parents had a cat manage to work a flea collar partly off her head, and
then get it stuck in her mouth.  By the time they found her at the end of
the day, her mouth was so swollen she had to eat soft food only for a
week.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si