![]() ![]() ![]() Thinks your knees look like a reasonable enough alternative to the aforementioned breakable Takes aim at the nearest fragile item and barrels headlong into it Given these alternatives, keeping one of these devices on your pet would seem to be the lesser of two evils.īut let’s say you have a pet who performs one of the following tricks when he’s sporting an E-collar: And blowing beaucoup bucks on antibiotics after she has overdone it on what was once a simple scratch is no fun either. After all, restitching incision sites isn’t fun for anyone. Having to deal with the ravages inherent to self-trauma situations in pets. But what’s worse than having to force your pet to wear the cone? That’s because most pets have a thing about licking at their incision sites, pawing at their itchy ears, rubbing their irritated eyes and generally scratching and chewing at body parts they shouldn’t. Variously known as the “E-collar” (short for “ Elizabethan collar”), the “lampshade,” the “satellite dish” and “that ungodly torture device that goes around her neck,” the ubiquitous plastic cone is by far the most common solution to the problem of postoperative incision complications and other areas in need of self-trauma avoidance. It’s one that serves to underscore the immense pleasure we humans seem to get from subjecting our pets to the “cone of shame.” So goes the caption to an irresistible LOLcat image I keep on my smartphone. It’s all fun and games until someone ends up in a cone. ![]()
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