I recently took in my brother's cat because she wasn't happy with him. She seems to have an aversion to men, she's terrified of all of them (perhaps a bad experience as a kitten?) and needs to live with women. Anyway, that's another story!

She is a very keen hunter and I'll find a mouse / bird on the door mat three or four times a week. I'd like to put a collar and bell on her to give the local wildlife a fighting chance, but my brother says he tried at least 5 and they just won't stay on her - she comes home and the collar has disappeared. I don't know much about them because the other cats I've had never needed one, they weren't interested in hunting.

Can anyone recommend a collar that has more chance of staying on?

Most cat collars have an elastic insert which will stretch in the event that the cat gets stuck (e.g. if climbing a tree) so that the collar doesn't end up choking them. If the cat regularly comes back without her collar, then that means this safety precaution is working.

If cat collars were designed to stay on, there would be more chance of the poor cat strangling itself. I'd rather my cat came back without his collar than not come back at all.

As said, they really ought not stay on as the cat may hang itself.

If the cat is that much of a hunter, keep it inside

Intelligent cats bite them off. There isn't much point in them.

You can't fight nature. Cats kill prey.

Thanks all.

My boy has three bells and still brings successful hunts (generally live) sadly. It's a cat thing!

Dawn and dusk are the times their prey are most vulnerable, you could give them a better chance by keeping puss inside at those times.

And dogs kill cats, but that's unacceptable!