This is a friendly reminder that when we recommend a cone after surgery, we know it’s not fun for anyone! There are a few situations where a donut, surgical suit, sleeve or soft cone is an ok alternative but for many conditions and surgeries the large plastic “cone of shame” is what we recommend because it’s simply what works well at protecting your pet and their incision. If your vet team recommends your pet wear a cone remember to keep it on at all times, especially when you are not with them or when you are sleeping! And while having to surgically revise an incision or treat the infection caused by a pet licking its incision is inconvenient: we in VetMed have seen horrible outcomes from pets getting to their incision. The one that sticks with me is a dog that got to her spay incision without the cone, opened her entire abdominal incision and had to be euthanized because of the catastrophic damage to her intestines and other internal organs. So when we tell you we really want your pet to wear the cone: it’s because we really do care 💙💙💙
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