Caring for a Three Legged Dog or Cat

Oh, I can't resist.

Tika thinks she's a flower, this was last December right after she got home.  Collar didn't stay on long, she started freaking out later that night.

Okay,  my pic was loaded earlier but then it blanked out.

I just reloaded it, I hope everyone can see it.

I call it Tika's: "I can be a flower if I want too!" pic.  (Thank you Walt Disney for that)

Great idea! A thread devoted to e-collars (also known as the "Cone of Shame" if you saw the great movie Up!).  Here's one of our Tripawd Max about ten years ago when he was a four-legged puppy.

Lest anyone think my wife and I were too poor and/or cheap to get him a decent e-collar, I assure you that wasn't the case.  It was a perfectly nice cone when the vet put it on him after his neutering, but Max the puppy was fond of tearing around the house and bashing into walls and doorways at full speed, using the e-collar as a shock absorber.  It quickly sprouted all kinds of razor-like jagged edges, which resulted in lots of tiny little cuts up and down Diane's and my legs when Max would bump his way around our ankles.  We attempted to blunt the sharp edges by lining the collar with duct tape.  As you can see, results were mixed.

One cool thing about this photo is that it got published a few years later.  The publishing company that prints Diane's page-a-day dog calendar put out a call for dog photos to be used in a book titled Bad Dog, which featured photos of dogs causing trouble of one kind or another.  They put Max's photo on page 126, although they annoyed the hell out of us by changing his name to "Harvey" (because according to them, this was somehow funnier than using his actual name).