Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

Remember Cooper’s awwees?  They actually sort of healed up a little but since DB started work and no one’s home, he started licking the bad paws which the vet said is out of boredom.  The float looking collar we got him made him so miserable.  He does not sleep much when he has that collar on because it makes his head  hangs over the collar, like he kena choked.  So obviously with his neck obstructed, he snores a lot and he will sit up and sometimes leans against the wall to sleep.  I felt so bad for him.  This is what the  awwees look like now on one paw.  It is getting bigger.

DB and I surfed the web last week and we think we found the perfect collar, we hope.  Not the cone looking thing but this.

I know, he looks like the collar of Queen Elizabeth 1’s dresses.  That is exactly what the collar is call, Soft E-Collar (Elizabethan Collar Alternative).  DB said Cooper looks like a flower with this new collar on.  We got him the XL collar.  It arrived this afternoon and I put it on right away.

So far he has not lick his wounds coz he can’t get to them.  This neck of the collar is very soft, unlike the float looking thing.  With this new collar he is actually sleeping good.  He is laying down right now and he looks very comfortable to us.  We know he is comfortable because he will not come over to sit next to us, giving us the very pitiful look when he has that blue floating collar on.  With this soft collar he has not done that since I put it on him.

Of course we take it off when he gets out the house or when he went to the dog park this late afternoon.  I am praying this new collar would be the cure for his awwees.