(a very good idea with all the feline leukemia going around, which cannot be prevented by vaccination)
FLV vaccination is about 75-85% effective, which is reasonably good as animal vaccinations go.
Bell collars are laughably innefective, and keeping cats in a closed area, is a big cause of feline obesity and so would be equally cruel Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Bell collars are laughably innefective,...
Citation?
(Jus' kidding.) Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
and you know this how?
Birmin(g)am Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
You stud. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
of course, you have to take it off at night if you expect to get any sleep.
I am seriously surprised by the reaction of the people here - like talking to people 20 years ago about paper recycling or something. really, really backwards!
I have a wildlife-friendly garden. It's taken years of neglect work to get it that way. I've got hedges, trees, nestboxes, a wildlife pond and buy local organic birdseed in 30kg sacks.
I like the birds in my garden. Really.
But bells don't work, because cats don't hunt by running after birds. I used to have two bells on the collar of one of my cats, and, as ceebs said, it was an exercise in assuaging guilt. A tabby, he was invisible when lurking under a bush, and all he had to do was wait for a bird to come within range and pounce.
What the bells did do was irritate him. And with hindsight, I think it may have been rather cruel as well as pointless to attach an annoying noisy thing to the neck of a creature with far more sensitive ears than ours.
