cat collars

I guess I have the motto "if you love your cat enough, you'll put a collar and tag on him/her". Granted a coyote, hawk, or eagle doesn't give a damn if you have a collar on your cat when it decides to make a dinner of your fluffy friend.

But I had a cat that had spent a lot of time outside. I let him go out, because he always came back. Then one afternoon, I got a call from a neighbor. "Don't get me wrong, he's a great cat. But he's ruining my window trying to socialize with my cat." That incident right there justified collaring and tagging my fur beasts. And that cat became an indoor cat.

When I got Adira as a little ball of fluff, I thought it was the time to get her used to being collared. She didn't like being collared, and shortly after putting it on her, I'd find it discarded on the floor. Same story with a harness.

So I gave up on collaring my crittters, and to be fair to Magnum, he went "naked". He didn't care if it was a collar or harness, he'd wear whatever I put him in.

To be a glutten for punishment, I picked up new scratch resistant collars for both critters. I think the selling point was that there was the standard size, and a "plus size" to fit Magnum's size. I picked a turquoise collar for Magnum, and a dark blue for Adira. Turquoise was the color the other cat wore (long story about that). For Adira, being a calico, with some blended color and solid colors, I wasn't sure what would be the best color on her. So I went with my favorite color.

Magnum again didn't care about being collared. Adira was like "what the heck are you doing to me?" when I put it on her. But she hasn't made any serious efforts to take it off either. She's over at the neighbor's patio, so as far I know now, that's where it'll end up.

I'll take pictures of my pretty kitties in their collars when my camera gets returned to me. And after I get them name tags.

Scary

Not that I'm going to have that problem in the near future (I'd need a credit card first). I can sort of understand the logic behind the policy - someone suddenly made a payment much more than their usual could indicate a sudden increase in their cash flow.

But it's still disturbing that Homeland Security gets involved when that happens.

Can't I just pay off my debts anonymously? Not anymore.

Friday....

and I'm not that excited. Tomorrow I have to come in to do some animal work because the timing is off by a day this week. I might be getting stuff late from the clinic today which will have to be done tomorrow as well.

I've been taking the medication for my leg issues for a week now. I don't think it's helping worth a damn. I remember partially waking up several times because my legs were moving around a lot. Then when a group of coyotes made a score (hopefully on some yippy dog), I gave up the sleep fight and got up.

There's a wash located not too far away from where I live. Most nights you can hear the howling of coyotes. When they find a feast of something, they get excited and that almost always wakes me up.