Cats Collar

[Caran]

This morning I noticed a red cats collar on the patio. It was still fastened and had a disc giving cats name Arnie, and a phone number.
We don't have a back garden as such. We have a patio edged by a wall that also runs close to our conservatory. We see cats walking along the wall quite often, and they like looking in on us.
The previous night I had noticed a black cat walking along the wall several times.
I phoned the number on the disc. When answered he confirmed he had a cat
Called Arnie, I mentioned the collar and he said they had been looking for it for a few days. He is coming to collect it tomorrow.
Later I started to think of this, he has been looking for it a few days, I found it this morning, where has it been in those few days. Also how did it come to be off the cat when it is securely fasten?

[calmck]

Cats are very clever at removing their collars or it could have caught on something and pulled off

[ummmm]

I'm not sure how quick release collars work but if it's a magnet it could have clipped back together.

[Toorak]

It’s not difficult for a cat to lose a collar - we spend a fortune on collars and tags. They can wiggle out of them quite easily.

[Caran]

It's not a quick release one. It's hard to work it out but I think you put it on the cat and fasten it up securely then. It has to buckle type things on it.

[Toorak]

There is ‘wriggle room’ when you put a collar on so that the cat can wriggle out of the collar if it gets entangled.

[Caran]

But what about the time difference, he has been looking for it a few days, I found it this morning?

[Rockrose]

lol cats can wiggle out of the collars with their paws - its quite amazing to watch the little devils do it!

[Arksided]

Maybe a Magpie found it and couldn't carry it any further, as they do like shiney things.

[Tilly2]

Has the owner been looking for the cat or for the collar?