If you wish to put a collar on your cat, please be careful and only use a collar with a breakaway clasp and/or elastic panel.  Ordinary collars can be very dangerous for cats if they get caught and are unable to free themselves.

Poor Lucky here is an example of what can happen with an ordinary collar. She attempted to wriggle out of the collar, but it got tightly caught round her neck and under her foreleg, causing deep and severe lacerations - the pictures are perhaps gruesome, but sadly illustrate the suffering that can be caused by something as simple as a badly designed or fitted collar. Please use a breakaway collar to avoid this type of injury, such collars are retailed by the RSPCA and are available at our Willow Farm animal centre.

Lucky was injured and first came to us in May 2009.  Despite our best efforts the wound proved very difficult to heal, and Lucky had to spend three months undergoing specialist treatment for her wound at RSPCA Block Fen.

The good news is that with intensive nursing and care, Lucky's wound is healed, and she is now fit and healthy - she can now indulge in her favourite head rubbing without a protective head collar in the way.

While Lucky is now over her injuries, it is a sobering reminder that 8 month's of her life have been spent with the RSPCA undergoing nursing care all due to her then owner's fitting her with an inappropriate collar.