Viperkeeper - I have no suggestion for a safe way of keeping your device on a cat that isn't some form of breakaway collar. And even breakaway collars are not fool safe. Unless you can make it small enough to implant, like a microchip... maybe you should look at that
There are new microchips that also record your cat's temperature so there is no need for a thermometer up the bum
Although, being a nurse, i can't really see how it could be that accurate at reading a core temperature as it's under the surface of the skin
But including some form of tracker might be doable....
PhelanVelvel - Your idea actually works as a good breakaway collar.
I still disagree when you say that it would be difficult for your cats to get stuck on something. I have always had cats and they were always (until recently) allowed in/out at leisure. I always insisted on collars but i would only buy breakaway ones that i could easily break open. Any stiff/difficult ones i refused to buy/use. I must have brought loads over the years, over 100 i bet. The cats would come home without them all the time. I would find them in the autumn on tree branches, rose bushes etc. We used to have a Wysteria at our old house that the cats used to love to climb.... It would always have a few decorative collars hanging from it
The ones that don't breakaway at all or are hard pose a huge risk of strangulation. I have heard of numerous occasions where cats have hung on door handles or branches.
The elsaticated ones are some of the worse ones as they just stretch and a cat can be caught in them causing horrific injuries
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