Aww, how honored am I that the yarn I dyed for Imbrium is in her wedding pictures?! Very honored indeed. 🙂
Because we live on the third floor of a three-story building, it’s very unlikely that Chaos or Mayhem will run out my door and end up outside. Here’s the sequence of events that would be required:
- I would need to open my front door and they would have to run out into the hallway. Chaos escapes into the hallway every day when I get home from work, but all I have to do is close the door, leaving him out in the hallway alone, and he’s ready to return home.
- Someone would have to open a stairwell door and let the kitties into one of the stairwells.
- The kitties would need to run down two flights of stairs. May’s never seen stairs. Chaos hasn’t seen stairs since he was 10 weeks old.
- Someone would then need to open the front or back door and let the kitties outside.
True, all of this could happen, but I think it’s unlikely – so neither Chaos nor Mayhem are required to wear collars regularly. However, when either of them goes to the vet, collars are mandatory… just in case. When Chaos went to the vet in February, you might remember how deeply suspicious he was of my putting the collar on him. However, you didn’t see the following photos, taken immediately after collar application.
“Maybe I can easily scrape this thing off…” -Chaos
“Well, that didn’t work. I’ll try sulking, to see if I can guilt Mom into removing the collar.” -Chaos
“Hmm. Maybe if I pretend that I’m choking, she’ll take pity on me?! Help! Help! I’m choking!” -Chaos
“She’s a cruel one, that Mom. I wonder if I can reach it to bite it off… no.”*sigh*” -Chaos
Awwww how fetching.
Nice bling, Chaos!
Many years ago Mom had a cat who needed a flea collar… he was so annoyed with the thing that he kept trying to jump out of it!
I had a cat who would flip all over the floor trying to gt the collar off. Chaos is tame in comparison. Poor kitty. Was May laughing at him?
He’s choking: quick, run him over to the vet!
So, why do they need to have a collar on?
If I tried that with my guys, I’d be the one choking. I have to be extra careful with Gandalf – everytime I open the back door, he makes a beeline for it and tries to get out onto the deck. And the last time I wasn’t vigilant…he spent the day out there! 🙁
I like Trek’s response. 🙂
You could just keep it on him all the time – he WOULD eventually get used to it. These guys wear their necklaces all the time.
That’s one glitzy collar, Master Chaos! I think it’s pretty striking, and the gal cats would really give you the eye…better leave it on when you’re out and about, strutting your stuff!
(((hugs)))
Chewy came with a collar. It was light purple and it had rhinestones all over it. It was off before we got home with him.
That 3rd floor with galloping cats, whatever happened to the unhappy neighbor?
Collars used to be worn all the time in our house (escape wouldn’t be quite as difficult) but then Benny’s collar went missing – and we felt bad for Jack. I’ve looked for months and have never found Benny’s collar. I have a feeling its stuck in the ceiling of the basement somewhere and I am grateful that they did wear quick release collars so we didn’t have to cut a hole in the ceiling to rescue our little explorer.
cats love collars just like fish love sweaters
It’s funny how well that, “Okay, fine, I’ll just leave you here.” tactic works on kids that don’t want to come in. Suddenly the hallway, store, park, etc doesn’t seem so much fun anymore.
Wow, wedding pictures with socks, yeah, I’ll bet the Harlot would be proud.
Our cats hate collars, too. They try to (and do!)get them off immediately. I worry that they will catch it on something and strangle themselves in their desperation. So, no collars.
I almost lost my coffee. I love the front door game. It never fails to make me chuckle (after I’ve recovered my balance). I lose, every time. Millie would happily lay just outside the door and supervise the hallway. I thought that we were the only ones…
Love the sock picture at the wedding. Neither of my cats wear collars either, so when I put them on for the vet visit they do the same as Chaos.
Charlie used to wear a collar. Timmy from day one figured out how to slip his off (a breakaway collar) and from then on, I couldn’t keep one on him.
I do have collars and i.d. tags for him which I put on the handle of the carrier to go to the vet, and need to get the girls i.d. too. I’m worried about leaving during a hurricane and not having the rabies tags for them nearby…even though we’d be going to my parents’ house.
Aw Chaos, you look so handsome in your collar.
Chris- That’s great that the yarn was a wedding guest.
Chops has a collar- but would never be seen dead wearing it. He doesn’t even wear it to the (whispering) vet.
Jetsam came in from the garden without his collar on the very first day, and we couldn’t find it. Until the next year, when we went to plant flowers. He had apparently “planted” the collar!
Kashka detests collars. I tried to keep one on her when I first got her, but it came off pretty quick. she shredded it a good bit one time, so that was the end of collars. I think she hated the bell that was on it more than anything.
love the Chaos (aka Big Kitty) photos with his bling and also ‘hiding’ in the box. Man – that’s one big cat!
It would take my cats about one minute to get those collars off. (heh heh)
Did you see that Carole put a harness on Mason and took him for a walk outside? (big grins)
One of my cats would tear me to shreds in my sleep if he wasn’t allowed outside, so his collar is a permanent accessory. He didn’t mind so much until we added the indignty of a bell so the birds could hear him coming.
psssst. Mom will take it off if you just keep getting your back paws stuck in the collar. We haven’t had to wear a collar since we moved from MI to CO… about… 9 years ago.
How cool that your sock yarn was in the wedding! It is a lovely color and the sock looks great.
Chaos must have gotten a diagnosis of collar-itis at the vet! My cat gets that, too. 😉
Heh! Matisse once strangled himself with a collar, hanging, literally hanging, because his tag got caught in a table top. TRUE STORY.
Needless to say, he is not collared anymore.
So that’s where Perry picked up his new habit of running into the hallway when I open the door!
My kitties have even greater obstacles- they have to get on elevators and get off at the right floor. I’d like to see them try pushing the correct buttons…
I’ve seen some seriously crazy moves from cats trying to get their collars off. The funniest ever though was our Sphynx cat (sadly now passed away). Sphynx cats are hairless so we thought it might be a good idea to get the cat a little sweater to wear during the winter. We put it on and our cat immediately started to growl, stiffened up like a board and slowly collapsed over onto it’s side. He refused to move and just lay there stiff and growling until we took the sweater off. Which was kind of hard to do since we were laughing so hard. 🙂
Will plays the garage game. He runs into the garage every time it opens, then hides when we try to get him back in the house. Closing the door usually works, though every once in awhile he spends several hours out there before he’s ready to come in. I think it’s just cat rebelliousness that makes him do it. Or maybe he’s sick of us and needs some alone time. Or maybe he likes sitting on the hood of the car. Who knows with cats.
And he’s lost so many collars that we’ve just given up.
Tell him you’ll put him in a pink ruffly harness if he doesn’t buck up…
Hehe… I remember those days of trying to get the buckle closed before they wriggled free.
Oh Chaos!
You should count yourself lucky that you only have to wear that pretty bit of nothing once in a while! Today a man who smelt like lots of different dogs came to my house and he put a reeeeallly tight black collar on my neck. It was fine, but now when I try to run all over the neighborhood I keep hearing this beeping in my ear and then something bites me! I think it’s the new white flags that are stuck in the green stuff – they are keeping me in the yard!
Ozzie (Captain’s KC Chaos)
Hezekiah doesn’t wear a collar unless she’s going to the vet either. I felt odd putting one on her when I first claimed her and….I’ve just never wanted to have that fight. And she’s an indoor/outdoor cat.
Sheba wore her collar almost her whole life. It’s so much easier when they’re kittens.
First a sunburn and then snow? The weather is crazy this year.
Oh! I cannot believe you don’t have under your ottoman properly lighted….. 🙂
My cat used to take her collar off and hide it. The only thing that saved me was that she always hid it in the same place.
I don’t put collars on my kitties either. They never get out. I’ve tried to collar them a couple times just for the hey of it. They weren’t amused.
I wonder if there were many sock knitters at that wedding….
I thought you were going to say that all four of those events had happened and Chaos had to have a collar 🙂 He looks very cute in it.
Oh poor Chaos, the torture he must endure.
Funny thing is Abner and Django rarely wear collars themselves. They live in the house and in the kennel which attaches to the house, and never go outside without us. Then we put their collars on and oh my goodness the mayhem begins as soon as they see those collars. Of course they enjoy wearing theirs.
Chaos, your collar is quite handsome on you. Mittens’ and Socks’ daddy puts a bright red harness on them and makes them go outside when what they really want to do is stay inside and sleep on the bed. But at least they don’t have to wear collars to the v.e.t.