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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2018 22:00:55 GMT
Anybody got any thoughts, experience or recommendations?
Daughter #2's cat has become a wanderer. This is the 3rd time I've had her in floods of tears for a day before the cat is found. Either it gets a tracker or I nail it to a plank of wood.
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 13, 2018 6:25:42 GMT
Either it gets a tracker or I nail it to a plank of wood. Difficult choice, but I think (particularly if Chile has the equivalent of the RSPCA) I'd recommend the tracker. 😎
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Post by WDB on Sept 13, 2018 7:21:00 GMT
Never looked into it but a quick search turned up things that look like they’re designed for dogs and would be uncomfortably big for a cat. This is a screen grab from Amazon, and has clearly been ‘shopped, but I wouldn’t put a thing this size on my cat.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2018 8:11:02 GMT
Nails it is then.
Is the cat called JC?
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Post by Rob on Sept 14, 2018 0:13:40 GMT
Pet trackers look a bit big for cats. In the UK Vodafone do some trackers (and cost only £3 per month for the SIM on top of your contract) for kids and pets. shop.v.vodafone.com/UK/V-PetThe other problem is they need charging every few days. I know because I have the V-Bag one in my father in laws coat!
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Post by WDB on Sept 14, 2018 12:30:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 14:39:53 GMT
Thanks for that. Quite startling if you look at the map.
My issue is that daughter #2 is devoted to a cat which loves to wander. He comes back on a pretty predictable schedule 95% of the time. But every now and again he goes AWOL for 24 hours.
And she ends up distraught.
It'd be so easy if I could pin-point his location and go and pick (or scrape) him up and resolve at least the doubts. Unfortunately It doesn't look that easy. It'd be hard to keep a collar on him anyway, and the size of some of them makes them completely impractical.
I don't know what to do really, so probably I shall end up doing nothing. Which isn't very useful or satisfying.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 14:52:28 GMT
I'm afraid it's in your daughter's hands to adjust her expectations of the cat. The animal will never change, so if she's getting distressed she's got to teach herself to over come that emotion. Lessons in life and all that. Change what you can and accept what you can't change.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 15:02:50 GMT
Would that it were so easy.
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