Mickey Kitty's Big-Boy collar.

I was finally able to get a bright red velvet collar on Mickey Kitty this afternoon. For the past two years now, he's been wearing a very thin elastic ribbon on his neck, with a tiny bell dangling from it. I bought the red collar last year, but his neck was just too tiny for it, and he didn't like the sound of the "new" bell and kept running away from the collar. He's a little bigger this year---- not much, but he has enough of a neck now to hold a real cat-collar.

This morning, the elastic ribbon broke (for the 257th time) and I decided to try the red velvet collar once again. So far, so good. Mickey seems to have noticed the difference in the sound of the bell, but at least he's not rolling all around the carpet trying to get it off of his neck. When his little bell makes noise, he stops what he's doing and turns around, as if he's expecting to find another cat right behind him.

He sounds like the Good Humor man now...... this new bell's sound has a higher pitch than the old one. (The Good Humor man... do they still come around in their sparkling white trucks?)

AngelBoy noticed the new bell-sound on Mickey Kitty as well...... he notices everything, that cat. I don't think he likes it too much because he scrunches up his face now every time Mickey's bell makes noise. I swear, there's just no pleasing AngelBoy.