He's HOME!

Debbie Wilson wrote:
Helen Miles wrote:

It'll be the domestic cat/margay size, although HRFL *WILL* insist
that I get the Siberian Tiger model! ;o)

Tangent: did you see the *gorgeous* snow leopards on Planet Earth?

Deb.

I watched and recorded them tonight, I missed it last Sunday, stunning
creatures.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart.
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

"Jo Firey" wrote

When we were at the vet yesterday, they had the radio collars on display.
I think it was $99 for the collar and $199 for the tracking unit. Too
much to afford and besides I have very poor luck with keeping a collar on
a cat. But affordable enough to make one feel very guilty if a dog or cat
goes missing.

I've known a few dogs who would make the thing a very good investment.
One is the Border Collie next door who does not understand the concept of
coming when he is called. And my brother used to have a Husky who really
liked to go for unsupervised runs.

Wouldn't RFID chips work, and be much less expensive?

"Pat" wrote in message
.. .

"Jo Firey" wrote

When we were at the vet yesterday, they had the radio collars on display.
I think it was $99 for the collar and $199 for the tracking unit. Too
much to afford and besides I have very poor luck with keeping a collar on
a cat. But affordable enough to make one feel very guilty if a dog or cat
goes missing.

I've known a few dogs who would make the thing a very good investment.
One is the Border Collie next door who does not understand the concept of
coming when he is called. And my brother used to have a Husky who really
liked to go for unsupervised runs.

Wouldn't RFID chips work, and be much less expensive?

What is an RFID chip.?

These things, you can go out with the base unit if the animal disappears and
find it. Its a tracking device. A little transmetter that attaches to the
collar.

The kind of thing you sometimes wish you could put on your teenagers, when
you aren't thinking clearly. Unlike pets, most of the time you don't really
want to know where they have been as long as they get back home safe and
sound.


Jo

Helen Miles wrote:
He's a very, very spooked little boy and very jumpy, but we (as in my
brother and I) eventually found HRFL under the brambles in the lane at
the back of my house unharmed although shaken.

As a black cat, Thank Bast I had the sense to put a reflective collar on
him, as it was the reflection being picked up by my torch that enabled
us to see him huddled under the bush. There is no way we would have
spotted him otherwise as it was very dark we'd already looked in that
spot twice. I had even gone as far as contacting the 24 hour emergency
vet on the corner of my street as there is a busy road not that far away
that has claimed a few local feline lives.

I didn't know whether to yell at HRFL for being so stupid or give him a
big cuddle. The cuddle and kisses won. ;o)

Thanks for the purrs - They helped very much.

The little sh*t and his ******* cat tricks will be the death of me yet.

Helen M


Missed the original post, but so glad he's home safe and sound.

--
Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:05:47 -0800, "Jo Firey"
wrote:


"Pat" wrote in message
. ..

"Jo Firey" wrote

When we were at the vet yesterday, they had the radio collars on display.
I think it was $99 for the collar and $199 for the tracking unit. Too
much to afford and besides I have very poor luck with keeping a collar on
a cat. But affordable enough to make one feel very guilty if a dog or cat
goes missing.

I've known a few dogs who would make the thing a very good investment.
One is the Border Collie next door who does not understand the concept of
coming when he is called. And my brother used to have a Husky who really
liked to go for unsupervised runs.

Wouldn't RFID chips work, and be much less expensive?

What is an RFID chip.?

These things, you can go out with the base unit if the animal disappears and
find it. Its a tracking device. A little transmetter that attaches to the
collar.

The kind of thing you sometimes wish you could put on your teenagers, when
you aren't thinking clearly. Unlike pets, most of the time you don't really
want to know where they have been as long as they get back home safe and
sound.


A RFID chip is a Radio Frequency Identification chip, which sends back
a pulse of information when it is scanned by a nearby transmitter. It
doesn't transmit all of the time, but rather receives a pulse of power
from a scanner. The ID chips now implanted in some pets are a type of
RFID chip. The simplest, and least informative, of such devices are
the anti-theft devices used by some stores that activate an alarm if
you carry the merchandise out the door without buying it. However,
the range of such systems is only a few inches to a few feet, used to
identify a pet that has been brought into a vet's office.

I would assume that the radio collar, on the other hand, has a
continuously-active radio transmitter on it so that you can use a
direction finder to track down where the pet has run off to. I would
wonder what the battery life would be for the collar, since it would
presumably be transmitting all the time, and also how far away the pet
and collar could be from the tracking device before it fails to pick
up the signal.

--
John F. Eldredge --
PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

"Helen Miles" wrote:

He's a very, very spooked little boy and very jumpy, but we (as in my
brother and I) eventually found HRFL under the brambles in the lane at
the back of my house unharmed although shaken.

He was home before my crew could contribute purrs, but they'll
be happy to purr for everybody's nerves to calm down and life to
get back to merely normally chaotic.

--

Wayne, with special purrformances by Will and Heidi

Helen Miles wrote in message
news:d2e8cc8f65534b573f0c3026ced46e9f.76411@mygate .mailgate.org...
He's a very, very spooked little boy and very jumpy, but we (as in my
brother and I) eventually found HRFL under the brambles in the lane at
the back of my house unharmed although shaken.


*breathes out*

I've been away from the group for a day or two, fortunately I know enough to
check for updates when I read bad news posts like that. I'm so glad that
he's safe.

Love

Jeanette

What a relief that he's home.
Suz&spicey

Helen Miles wrote:
He's a very, very spooked little boy and very jumpy, but we (as in my
brother and I) eventually found HRFL under the brambles in the lane at
the back of my house unharmed although shaken.

As a black cat, Thank Bast I had the sense to put a reflective collar on
him, as it was the reflection being picked up by my torch that enabled
us to see him huddled under the bush. snip
Helen M


I'm so behind in reading the posts that I only just saw this now. I'm so
very happy HRFL is back and that he is ok.
Best wishes,
Polonca and Soncek

"John F. Eldredge" wrote in message


I would
wonder what the battery life would be for the collar, since it would
presumably be transmitting all the time, and also how far away the pet
and collar could be from the tracking device before it fails to pick
up the signal.///

Battery life is approx 18 months, and distance is up to 2 km depending
on terrain.

Helen m




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