{"id":92952,"date":"2022-04-22T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/are-bells-on-cat-collars-cruel-3\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:15:21","slug":"are-bells-on-cat-collars-cruel-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/are-bells-on-cat-collars-cruel-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Are bells on cat collars cruel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Are bells on cat collars cruel?<\/h2>\n<p>A number of studies have looked at whether or not bells help prey escape from cats, and the general consensus is yes! <b>Bells on collars seem to reduce the amount of prey caught by about half, which could be enough to no longer pose a threat to ecosystems.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Do bells on collars damage cats hearing?<\/h2>\n<p>While many well-intended friends may say that bells can damage your cat&#8217;s ears, this is not true. Even with long-term usage, experiments show that <b>bells don&#8217;t affect your cat&#8217;s hearing. Bells have a sound of around 50dB, which is well below your cat&#8217;s hearing sensitivity.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Is it cruel for cats to wear bells?<\/h2>\n<p><b>Bell noise can be detrimental to your cat&#8217;s health. As it is hanging from the animal&#8217;s neck, it is located very close to the ear, so the cat is exposed to constant stimuli that will eventually lose hearing acuity, and in some cases where the bell is too big and noisy , you could be deaf.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are bells on cat collars cruel? A number of studies have looked at whether or not bells help prey escape from cats, and the general consensus is yes! Bells on collars seem to reduce the amount of prey caught by about half, which could be enough to no longer pose a threat to ecosystems. Do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}