A young feral cat is being nursed back to health after a makeshift collar left it gruesomely injured.Andrew and Donna Crick, of Piper’s Peak, Warwick, found two hungry juveniles “trash diving” outside their home, and were feeding the animals.“I didn’t notice it right away,” Mr Crick said, of the neck band that was slowly strangling one of them.“It wasn’t until a week or so that I saw red on one of them. I thought it was blood, but it was some type of plastic object.”Both animals were trapped with the help of the Bermuda Feline Assistance Bureau (BFAB), who neutered the two siblings and treated one cat for open lacerations left behind by the strip embedded in its neck.Treated on Tuesday at Endsmeet Animal Hospital, both cats are now under the care of the Cricks. One roams free, while its wounded brother recovers in the Crick family’s garage.Once the injured cat heals, it will be free to roam the woods again. According to BFAB’s Val Sherwood, feral cats are difficult to tame.“We’re not sure how it happened,” Ms Sherwood said, “but it’s the third time in three months that we’ve had to deal with something around a cat’s neck.”Now four months old, the young animal was probably around two months when the band was placed around its neck. Ms Sherwood described it as “like something you’d get around your wrist to go into a disco or the hospital”.However it got there, the strong, tight plastic gradually embedded in the animal’s flesh, and would have killed it.“It’s a good occasion to remind people to cut up those plastic rings you get on six-packs,” Ms Sherwood said.The two cats may have escaped a house together, or may have been dumped.“They’re the only ones we saw around here that looked feral,” said Mr Crick. “They just showed up.”The recovering cat has yet to be named, but Mrs Crick has taken to calling its brother Theodore.Useful website: www.bfab.bm.