Cat collar and tag
Jul. 5th, 2009 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtuesThe cat needs and wants to go outside.
That's fine with me, as long as she has a collar and tag (so no-one adopts her thinking she's homeless) and as long as we establish a kitty bat signal, so I can entice her inside.
Which brings us to the Collar Moment. I bought a collar and engraved tag for her at the PetMegaStore, brought them home and assembled them, then gave her a kitty treat.
Ah, the Judas treat. As she munched away, intent on the treat, on went the collar.
Result: An offended glare and thirty solid minutes of attempts to shake the collar off. No dice, kid; it's staying on. But look (the human says, opening the screen door): You can go outside now.
And out went the cat, still shaking her head trying to rid herself of the collar.
Two minutes later, when she was happily occupied in catlike fashion outside, I shook the kitty treat bag (rustle RUSTLE RUSTLE) and called her ("KIttyKitty! Here, KittyKitty!)
Zoom! In the house for a treat.
Bat signal thus established, out she went again.
That's fine with me, as long as she has a collar and tag (so no-one adopts her thinking she's homeless) and as long as we establish a kitty bat signal, so I can entice her inside.
Which brings us to the Collar Moment. I bought a collar and engraved tag for her at the PetMegaStore, brought them home and assembled them, then gave her a kitty treat.
Ah, the Judas treat. As she munched away, intent on the treat, on went the collar.
Result: An offended glare and thirty solid minutes of attempts to shake the collar off. No dice, kid; it's staying on. But look (the human says, opening the screen door): You can go outside now.
And out went the cat, still shaking her head trying to rid herself of the collar.
Two minutes later, when she was happily occupied in catlike fashion outside, I shook the kitty treat bag (rustle RUSTLE RUSTLE) and called her ("KIttyKitty! Here, KittyKitty!)
Zoom! In the house for a treat.
Bat signal thus established, out she went again.
