Cat bells should be banned?

[sweet_cherry_pie]

I think that if you bring a little boy from Africa and attach him headphones playing the same song 24/7 and in exchange you give him food and a sofa where to sleep, he will still smile and be grateful. Does it mean he "doesn`t care" about the headphones? or he "just got used to it"....? No, it means he is trying to live life with them on!

C'mon people treat your cats with some common sense...
I've read that some people say "my cat asks me the bell back after shower" of course! you have caused such a damage in his brain that I think that if you take off the headphones from the little boy once he is older...he would ask it back!
Don't go against nature...that is for me animal abuse...just because you are taking care of a cat doesn't mean you can attach not natural things to him!
Question: Cat bells should be banned?
A cat stepped on by a worker? where are the owners? I guess that if I leave my human baby next to a work zone he would have the same fate...that was not smart enough...
Some people test animals (including cats) to see if drugs are dangerous for people...has any scientist tested a child to see how annoying can result a bell ringing all day for a cat? and then be approved by an animal association. NO! It just says "made in china" and you get them...
Tinka you are such an airhead! Have you ever heard about the DB a human can hear in comparison to a cat! Cats can hear 7 times more than we can...no wasting my time with people that say a bell in you ear is like traffic...wear one and tell me if it's funny...Im happy I made your day...duh..whatever...I guess physics in school made you laugh too right?

 

[bec]

i dont want to sound annoying or anything, but that isn't a question. it sound more like a topic. it should be 'should cat bells be banned'
anyway, i aggree with you. although my cat doesn't wear one for your reason, it doesn't wear one because the collar irritates her neck. on the other hand, it does warn native animals that a cat is coming and it does protect our wildlife.

 

[DAVE]

do you mean the collars? yeah perhaps as they do have a chance of strangulation


calm yourself
VVVVV

 

[TinkaT]

Omg. I can't believe this is actually a question. I rofled when I read it. lol. This is hilarious. This is like my family was giving me a hard time about parental abuse when I got a fish tank because apparently the filter is TO FREAKIN LOUD. Which it isn't. lol. Now nobody cares.

And what type of excuse is the kid from africa thing? I mean, if you don't make him wear the ipod and listen to it, he'll do it himself and blow out his own hearing eventually, like most teenagers. lol.

The bell is just like the noise of traffic in a city. I don't live in a city and have a horrible time sleeping when I visit one. To many sirens, but I have never heard of the government trying to ban cars because the noises bug them.

I actually got quite a kick out of this. I think you just made my day. lol

Add on: You really have an odd sense of revenge. Yes I do laugh at your questions. It's legitimately funny. Sometimes there's stuff that never goes away. You just learn to live with it.

And as far as the goat milk thing. I have a little bit of reason to be wondering about that. Their composition is quite similar. Goats milk has a fat composition of around 6% to 8%. Cat milk is around 8% to 10%. True protein in cat milk is also around 8% to 10%. Goats is on average around 9. I have also heard of people raising puppies off of goats milk, and I've heard of female dogs raising kittens. So kittens off goats, in my mind does not seam all that far of a stretch, does it?

The reason why I am considering getting a kitten with closed eyes is because this are wild barn cats. They are going to be scared and vicious. My grandma (Not really by blood, just since mine's dead she's kind of taken the place) once had a coyote that they raided from a litter. They got it when it's eyes were closed, so it would not be scared of people. Admittedly it did not make a good pet. But people defiantly did not scare it.

Now when did I state that I would never take it to the vet? I'm reading through my post again, and I'm having problems seeing how you inferred that. I'd take it in if it got sick.

No, when It comes to cats. I am defiantly not smart. Why else would I be on yahoo answers trying to get info out of people?

Admittedly, maybe I had no grounds to answer your question on, but you tied it into humans. And I know defiantly what it is like to be human. Plus it was such a peta thing to say I couldn't help myself.

I would like to know something. If you are not ready to have people disagree with you/laugh at you, why did you post this as a statement? Statements invite angry people like none other. Especially strongly put ones. It seems rather, pointless I guess to point a statement which you are not willing to revise. Websites for asking questions are places to learn new things from different perspectives. Not to start cat fights.

If you are still grumpy at me, please email me instead. I rather not involve the whole internet in whatever this disagreement has turned into.

I'm sorry to those who read this and it makes no sense. I just can't not have people finish what they start. sorry

 

[Alex]

If you have an outdoor cat, the bells are on collars to protect the bird population. My kitten went wild at first playing with the bell when I first put it on, but now doesn't mind it. It also keeps us aware of where he is at all times. I don't think it's cruel to have a bell on their collar at all - but it's up to each owner and the temperament of their cat.

If you put a collar on a dog, what's different about putting one on a cat? You would put tags on your cat so that if he's lost he can be returned, so how is that different than a bell?

 

[tåkëcárêõfmÿcât1]

Hi,

I understand where you are coming from. However, aside from vanity reason, which is why most cat owners attach a bell to their cat's collar, the bell actually serves a purpose.

Cats are predators and if left loose, the do pose a serious threat to wild life such as birds, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians. That is one reason why bells are needed as an early warning system to announce the impeding arrival of a predator.

Some people keep cats and birds as pets in the same household. Therefore, some indoor cats also wear a bell so that the birds can be warned when kitty is too close.

If the bell serve a purpose, I see no harm in it and it is not animal abuse. But for those who attach a bell on their cats just because they look cute with one, then I definitely would not recommend it at all.