bell collar removal

We recently decided the bell collar on our cat was too loud and removed it. But now, the cat is totally silent all the time. We never know where he is. So it is like we are living with a ghost.

Stuff disappears, and we don't know where it went. Stuff gets thrown around, poltergeist style, seemingly from nowhere.

Moreover, though, the loss of my cat's collar has made me feel like my cat is a weird deviant. I mean, a collar is the only scrap of clothing a cat can have. Once that is gone, a cat is totally naked.

Loss of collar causes opposites.

My cat seems to really enjoy his time without his collar. Which partially makes me feel like he is a weird kleptomaniac deviant who loves to run around naked and steal all my pens. But mostly, since getting him to wear the collar in the first place was a struggle (he hates having things around his neck), I feel like he's flaunting his nakedness as a symbol of his freedom as a naked wild animal.

But the joke is on him, because I got him a sweater.

A winner is me!