I just got a Comfy Cone for my dog for after her second femoral ostectomy surgery. She’s a wee dog and does very well with it. Since your dog is big I don’t know how it would work for him. It’s rigid, but can be folded back for eating and drinking.
I just remove it for those times.
She is happier with that than the rigid plastic cone. I tried an inflatable but it was too heavy for her and she’d “bottom up” like a dog in a cartoon.
I used to use a regular harness adjusted taut, attach the cone to it (instead of the regular collar) with the long stretch gauze. If the cone didn’t have holes in the right place or to make them I used a leather punch. And to make it more narrow I used a lot of duct tape to make the diameter narrower, so the dog had less diameter, but longer so it stopped access to paws. My dog could twist so well that he had to use a really big collar, and I used the white-ish one because it’s thicker and more durable than the clear one. I wonder if they make really clear but thick ones now? It’s been a while since anyone here needed one.
To keep dogs and puppies with moderate intent from chewing catheters out in the clinic we make cath shields using old empty rolls of vet wrap the 4 inch type. Just cut the cardboard roll full length open it and snap it over the bandaged area wrap more vet wrap over that. Most of the time when the chewers get to the little cardboard shield they give up since its smooth and they can’t really chew through it without serious work.
Anyone that can’t leave well enough alone …gets a cone of shame 
Using the vetwrap core is a great idea!
Unfortunately my idiot adult children left the Cone off yesterday and Shadow decided it would be more effective to chew out the TOE of the bandage than push the whole thing down. He is now duct-taped and re-coned. Sigh.
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Guin-you’re overlooking the advantages of the cone of shame. The great pictures of humiliated doggie, the joy in seeing the dog adapt and triumph over the cone to snack goodies off the floor at record speed like some kind of huge doggie vacuum cleaner. And the fun of watching them try to go out doggie doors and miss. Plus the dog does have fun when he nails your ankles and feet with the cone and watches you dance like a chicken.[/QUOTE]
:lol: Mine enjoys - but perhaps doesn’t fully understand - my vastly improved response time when she comes up behind me on the stairs and tries to get past. She’s a barger by nature, and when she’s wielding a cone, I tend to let her by as opposed to meeting the hard plastic edge at calf level. She once threw me headfirst into a room; she was anxious to get by to see her cat (who doesn’t enjoy the cone at all, as when the dog lowers her head to sniff kitty, it’s like having an alien ship descend over kitty’s entire body) and rammed me in the back of the knees.
why don’t you want to use the cone?
Primarily because he can’t get down or up the basement stairs with it on, and that is where he sleeps during the day. Also he bangs into things and gets stuck on the kitchen chairs, etc. It’s just uncomfortable. Anyway, bandage has made it through this weekend; back to get it re-done today.
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