Best Elizabethan collar?

[Simkie]

Well, if you get really desperate (and the basket muzzle idea doesn’t work–that’s a neat idea) you can always go old skool and use a bucket. You’ll have to get a bucket that is longer than their head is long (their muzzle cannot poke out the end), then you cut a hole big enough to pass their head in the base, and punch a few holes around the base. Put bucket on dog like a cone o shame, thread shoelaces through the little holes and tie to the collar.

When I was a kid, we had to do this when my first dog was spayed. She was SMART with the cone–she lied down next to the sofa so the cone curled in, and then chewed it off.

Hang in there. This part sucks! :lol:

(FWIW, too, I’ve dressed animals with non-flush staples and never had them pull out or catch. In one case, I put a wee little dog coat on a CAT, because she had staples right over her withers and I didn’t want her yanking them if she scratched. Worked great!)

[Canaqua]

I got one of those blow up things (Pro Cone or something?) for our BC mix recently, it didn’t hold air very well, I was having to refill it every few hours. For 30 something dollars, I wasn’t very happy. BC mix is very long and lean, in addition to being young and flexible, and we were trying to keep her off her back legs. I had to get her an extra large Comfy Cone to keep her from getting her foot up to her mouth. Fortunately, she lost interest in messing with her feet after a couple of days, because she could hardly fit through our narrow doorways with that on. Less flexible and more compact ACD mix can get by with a much smaller cone. BC mix seemed slightly less annoyed by the Comfy Cone than by the vet’s cone, because the Comfy Cone is see through, while the vet’s cone was opaque

I did have some of my son’s socks on her, but she got them off. If the stitches had been on her torso somewhere, I would have tried one of the boy’s t-shirts, even with duct tape in strategic places (not attached to fur!) to keep her from tearing it off as fast.