A bell, a charm and something to look at.
A light printed collar with a bell and a matching charm. The important question with any cat collar is not the print but the buckle, because a cat that snags a collar needs it to open.
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Design: Strawberry
Why you'll love it
A bell cuts a cat's success rate at catching birds substantially. If your cat goes outside, that is the strongest argument for a collar at all.
One centimetre of soft webbing sits flat under the chin. Anything wider rides up and rubs, which is why so many cat collars get scratched off in a week.
A printed collar makes your cat identifiable to neighbours, which matters more than it sounds for a cat that visits four houses.
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Cats climb, squeeze through gaps and get collars caught on branches, fence wire, cat flaps and their own back leg during grooming. A collar that will not release under pressure turns each of those into a genuinely dangerous situation, and the injuries from a caught collar are among the more distressing things vets deal with.
Every cat collar should therefore be a breakaway design that opens under a sustained pull. The compromise is that you will lose collars occasionally, and that is the system working correctly rather than a fault. If you find a collar on the lawn, replace it and be glad the cat is not attached to a fence.
Two fingers should slide flat under the collar and no more. Too loose is the more common error and the more dangerous one, because a cat can get a front leg through a slack collar and end up with it caught behind the shoulder. Check the fit weekly on a growing kitten and monthly on an adult.
Introduce it gradually rather than fastening it and hoping. Some cats accept a collar immediately; plenty spend the first hour walking backwards or shaking their head, and a few will get it off however well it is fitted. Short sessions with something good to eat, building up over a week, is far more likely to work than leaving it on and waiting for the cat to adjust.
A bell gives birds and small mammals warning, and studies on collar mounted bells have found meaningful reductions in what cats bring home. If your cat hunts and you would rather it did not, a bell is the simplest intervention available and it costs nothing beyond a small amount of the cat's hunting success.
Some cats are genuinely bothered by a sound that follows them everywhere, and a small minority never settle with one. The bell can be removed if that is the case. It is also worth noting that a bell announces the cat to you as well, which many owners find useful for knowing where a cat has got to in the house.
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She was bringing something back from the field most weeks over the summer and I wanted a bell on her before another season started. It is loud enough to hear from the garden and the birds get plenty of warning. The watermelon print is sharper than I expected on webbing that narrow.
The enamel strawberry is lovely to look at and genuinely matches the print rather than being a generic shape. It does dangle a little lower than the bell though, so it is the charm that taps the bowl at feeding time. She does not seem to mind, I notice it far more than she does.
Every collar we tried before was wider and rode up under her chin until she got a paw caught in it. At 1 cm this sits flat along her jawline and she has left it alone since the first day. Adjusted down to about 21 cm for a small cat with plenty of webbing left spare.
He visits at least three houses on the street and there was some confusion about whether he had a home at all. A pineapple print collar is memorable enough that people now mention seeing him rather than feeding him. The buckle is a little cat face, which is daft and I like it.
It looks great and the adjustment range covers our small girl easily, down near the 18 cm end. After about four months the avocado print has worn thin where the webbing folds through the buckle, so that section is mostly plain nylon now. Still perfectly usable, just not as smart as it was in month one.
I wanted to know when he was in the kitchen and when he was on the worktop, and the bell has solved both questions. It is a proper ring rather than the dull rattle the last one made. The cherry print has kept its colour through a very wet autumn on the coast.
No complaint about the collar, the 1 cm webbing sits nicely and the buckle has never come open on its own. The bell is the trade off, and when she does laps of the landing at three in the morning I know about it in some detail. I would still rather have it on her than not.
She was tiny when she came to us and the 18 cm end of the range actually fits a kitten, which is more than I could say for the last one we tried. There is enough webbing left to let out as she grows towards the 30 cm end. The charm is light enough that it does not pull the collar round her neck.
He goes through a gap in the hedge twenty times a day and I fully expected to lose this in the first week. Four months later it is still on him and the stitching at the buckle end has not pulled at all. The bell has not gone dull or clogged up with anything either.
Good questions
It is a side release buckle, and the listing does not state a breakaway force rating. Treat it as an indoor or garden collar. For a cat that roams and could snag on a fence or a branch, buy a collar sold specifically as breakaway and tested to release under load.
Two fingers flat under the collar, no more and no less. Loose enough to slip a paw through is how cats end up with a leg caught behind the strap.
Yes, it hangs from the same ring as the charm and unclips. Some cats never settle with one; most stop noticing it within a few days.
Check the product details before use, and only put a breakaway collar on a cat. A buckle that does not release under pressure is a serious risk for an outdoor cat.
Two fingers flat underneath and no more. Loose collars are the more dangerous error, since a cat can get a front leg through one and catch it behind the shoulder.
Yes, if your cat is bothered by it. A bell does reduce successful hunting though, so it is worth persisting for a week or two before removing it if your cat goes outdoors.
Last reviewed 30 August 2026