Nick shows off his "Elizabethan" collar in a fuzzy photo taken this evening in the cat facility. He's shut up there in a cage for four days while he is on antibiotics (10 days total) with a drain in his wound (I'm to remove it on day four)
And this is what he's gone and done to himself by picking fights with dumped cats. A pretty darned big abscess that required a drain (hard to see, runs from the lower left to the upper right, yellowish white, you can only see the ends). Nick hates it in the cat facility, but he ends up there almost every six months, due to some injury or another. The last time, he was attacked by crows and had his ears shredded. No, I'm glad all of my other cats are indoors cats!
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We call it "the cone of shame." Jaxsun has had to wear one on a bunch of occasions due to hotspots and Francesca had to wear one when we got her spayed.
Kenya will not move when put into a collar. She is far sighted and cannot see the edges clearly enough to judge where anything is. Therefore, she bumps into everything and is too terrified to move.
So we don't put her in one. We put her in four-legged pajamas, that cover the booboo area and she can't chew it. Also, it hampers her leg movement enough to where she feels hobbled (she can move freely, she just doesn't want to because she isn't used to that feeling) so she doesn't run and jump (which she wasn't supposed to do after that lump removal anyway). So this works for her.
Depending on animal personality and the cut of the garment, it may work for someone else too, which is why I mention it.
That wound looks so nasty! I hope it looks worse than it feels, and I hope it heals very, very soon.
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