To Laurel, I have always kept collars on my two fuzzies. Even Pixel, who had lived to be over a year old with nary a collar in sight, adjusted to it pretty quickly. I buy the small cat or kitten safety collars whenever I find them, the ones with the elastic so that the animal can free itself easily when caught, and with a bell so that we can keep track of our carpet sharks more easily. Naturally, they slip their collars now and then and usually hide them somewhere, so my husband and I keep spares around and recollar the miscreant as soon as we notice, and the lost collars turn up eventually in the couch, the closet, or under the rug :). -- Name: Gail Snyder Shochet E-mail: [log in to unmask] (Gail Snyder Shochet) [Posted in FML issue 1329]