Interesting cat / Elizabethan collar experiences

My new kitty actually escaped from his Elizabethan collar. Just wondered if anyone had any interesting cat / Elizabethan collar experiences.

docile kitty to withstand the "Elizabethan Collar." I have always had Siamese and they are kind of rebellious and don't tolerate much.

But, what I did was I sat my kitty down and talked to him, and told him he needed the collar or he would die. I repeated the words I used to keep him out of trouble like....Nasty! Dangerous!...You won't like what happens if you do this! All cautions were met with large blue eyes staring me down. Eventually what I did was cut the collar down to make it smaller than the vet gave me, and he tolerated it for a few more days.

So, all I can say is try to talk to your kitty with urgency and strokes of reasurrance and then cut the collar down, unless you have a very BIG cat....in that case..I don't know what to tell you. :-( Good Luck.

BTW: If you cut the collar, make sure you don't get it so small that he/she can reach where they are not supposed to. Depends on size of cat and their "reach."

and we figured that was all right if he didn't vigorously lick his wound open, either way it may not matter since his wound is about healed or nearly healed.

called BonaFido that makes very nice, soft plushy Elizabethan collars. They are sort of like miniature life preservers. Cats like them better than the hard kind because they don't interfere with their peripheral vision and are more comfortable. If your kitty needs to have a collar on for an extended period of time, you might want to check these collars out. You can buy them directly from the website (bonafido.com, I think) or have your vet order one for you. The kitty ones have really cute fish designs on them!

had to have one of those collars. It really didn't work well. We ended up having to hobble the poor critter by tying its back legs together so it couldn't scratch. That worked. He sort of hopped around the house like a rabbit but he could not scratch his stitches and reopen the wound on the back of his neck.

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