Hi...my apologies if someone else has posted this question before...it's hard to search through everything without the search function!
My cat, Dusty, had surgery last Thursday and has been suffering through all sorts of indignities aimed at keeping her from licking at the wound (I fashioned a corset type thing, have been using an e-collar, and used a onesie to fashion her a sort of bodysuit). She hates all of these. The wound is healing pretty well...now there is just a lot of scabbing, etc... I still want to wait at least a couple more days before letting her have access to the wound but I'd like to get her out of the e-collar (which seems to be her least-hated form of confinement)...if nothing else than because I seem to only get 3-4 hours of sleep a night when she's wearing it!
I know that there are extra-large bandaids that would fit well over Dusty's wound and make it so that she doesn't have access to the scabs. Is it safe, though, to use bandaids on cats? Has anyone had success with bandaids, or is it pretty useless (because the cats will just pull them off)?
Thanks SO much for the help!
--shellcat
My cat, Dusty, had surgery last Thursday and has been suffering through all sorts of indignities aimed at keeping her from licking at the wound (I fashioned a corset type thing, have been using an e-collar, and used a onesie to fashion her a sort of bodysuit). She hates all of these. The wound is healing pretty well...now there is just a lot of scabbing, etc... I still want to wait at least a couple more days before letting her have access to the wound but I'd like to get her out of the e-collar (which seems to be her least-hated form of confinement)...if nothing else than because I seem to only get 3-4 hours of sleep a night when she's wearing it!
I know that there are extra-large bandaids that would fit well over Dusty's wound and make it so that she doesn't have access to the scabs. Is it safe, though, to use bandaids on cats? Has anyone had success with bandaids, or is it pretty useless (because the cats will just pull them off)?
Thanks SO much for the help!
--shellcat