http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-important-are-elizabethan-collars/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:25:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-important-are-elizabethan-collars/comment-page-1/#comment-473 Jean M Fogle Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:51:32 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-important-are-elizabethan-collars/#comment-473 My cat Pilgrim had an absess and had to have the collar, he walked backwards the whole time trying to back out of it, When I took it off it was amazing how fast he could start pulling on the drain , once the drain was out, he left it alone. Jean My cat Pilgrim had an absess and had to have the collar, he walked backwards the whole time trying to back out of it,
When I took it off it was amazing how fast he could start pulling on the drain , once the drain was out, he left it alone.
Jean

]]> http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-important-are-elizabethan-collars/comment-page-1/#comment-444 barrie Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:41:25 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-important-are-elizabethan-collars/#comment-444 I used to work for a dog trainer who used a combination of stuffed Kongs and leather muzzles to cure dogs of lick granulomas so last year when my Belgian Malinois had to have a tumor removed I purchased an inexpensive <a href="http://leerburg.com/jafco.htm" rel="nofollow">Jafco muzzle</a> for her to wear rather than an Elizabethan collar so she wouldn't bother the incision site. Worked like a charm and she wasn't as irritated by it as she would have been by the collar not to mention she wasn't a hazard to people and furniture in the house! I used to work for a dog trainer who used a combination of stuffed Kongs and leather muzzles to cure dogs of lick granulomas so last year when my Belgian Malinois had to have a tumor removed I purchased an inexpensive Jafco muzzle for her to wear rather than an Elizabethan collar so she wouldn’t bother the incision site. Worked like a charm and she wasn’t as irritated by it as she would have been by the collar not to mention she wasn’t a hazard to people and furniture in the house!

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