Julie PaganoSometimes Charles manages to get his collar in a state where he looks like a supervillain.
(He has to wear the collar to avoid overgrooming his tummy.)
Judy Anderson@juliepagano My cat also has a belly grooming problem. It never occurred to me to put a collar on her. Your collar is interesting because it looks inflatable. It looks less annoying than the regular cone of shame plastic kind. Does it have a name you could Google?
@nosrednayduj He grooms to the point of injury, so we have to take steps to prevent it, so he doesn't seriously hurt himself.
He tolerated the inflatable ones we tried, but kept putting holes in them so they deflated. We tried a recovery suit for a while, but then had a terrible situation where the butt flap got misaligned.
These are fabric with filling in them (sorta like a stuffed animal). We stack two of them (one medium and one large -- he's a big cat) to make it less flexible because he was occasionally able to work around just one of them. He tolerates these best out of everything we've tried, and he can generally enjoy his normal cat life with them. We try to give him a couple breaks every day where he gets supervised, no-collar grooming time.
It's not from a brand I particularly trust, which I don't love, but it’s the only thing we could find that worked well for him. Here's a chewy link.
https://www.chewy.com/h-hidream-cat-cone-recovery-collar/dp/2472102