Re collars:
 
Mitu had a break away collar on in my home.  When I came home from work, she had her paw caught between her neck and the collar and was choking herself to death.  It did not break away. 
 
This is just something to consider.
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                 If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
                                                 from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who
                                                 will deal likewise with their fellow man.
                                                                  St. Francis
----- Original Message -----
From: Mi Wu
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: What I learned

thanks for sharing, leslie.  we all love you :D

Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just wanted to share this with you, looking back on the things that I will/won't do differently in the future.
 
1.  Microchip everything.  I should microchip the car.  Even with the slight snag with Satch's chip, I feel that they would have sorted it out and gotten him to me.
 
2.  Put a bumper sticker on your car.  I hate bumper stickers, but putting out a notice on a nondescript white car - which matches the description of 90% of cars out there, it seems, I'm going to put a pink one on there from a CD store back home.  License plates numbers are hard to remember and easy to remove - bumper stickers aren't.
 
3.  Collars.  I don't think that having the cats in a carrier would have been better - in fact maybe worse, because they wouldn't be able to leave the car, but even as indoor cats, I see how collars are a good idea.
 
4.  Cut off switch in the car.  Who would want this car?  I felt, and still feel to some extent, but whether or not I know the answer to that is not the point.  I don't know who and I don't know why, I just know that they did and if there's a simple fix to prevent it from happening again, even if it probably won't ever in my lifetime, I am going to take it in order to feel safer.
 
5.  Be a member of this list for life.  Give back, be open, because you will probably never meet such a wonderful and supportive group of people your entire life. 
 
Stay safe you all, I'm off to stiller waters - though I know that my tv-viewing public will be so sad by that.  :)
 
Leslie


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