A great stretchy collar that you can try is Beastie Bands. They velcro
together but are made of a stretchy material that you could just slip over
the cat's head if you wanted. They are very light weight too. My cats wear
them and don't seem to mind. Check them out at catconnection.com. (That's
where I bought mine from.)

S.
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On Jan 14, 1:41 pm, Maxine G wrote:
Hi. My cat has now lost about 5 collars in the neighborhood. This doesn't
count those that neighbors have found and returned. Many of the times
he's
come in without it, he's also been a bit muddy, so I suspect he's been
crawling under some brush that's snagged it.

It's expensive because we have a magnetic cat door, so each time we
replace
a collar, we also have to replace the magnet and his tag.

We've tried several different types of collars - break-away and stretchy.
Obviously we want to continue to use a safety collar, so that he CAN get
out of it in an emergency.

Does anyone have a particular type of collar to recommend?

I've also considered getting some kind of device which would track the
collar, like one of those key rings that beeps. Any suggestions there?

Thanks,
Maxine

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I have the same problem with those Glo Kitty break away collars that
are supposed to reflect a cars headlights. He loses about one a month
or more. I wish they would make them so they just stretch over a cats
head to get them on, and they would be stretchy enough to protect the
cat should he get caught on something. I'm beginning to think mine
just hates the bell, and has figured out how to get it off. I caught
him on his hind legs trying to turn the door knob a few times, so that
doesn't seem unlikely...LOL!