Are these worth buying? I have a sheltie who has to have her back dew claws removed and wondered if one of these would stop her getting at stitches. She is nearly 6 months and chews everything in sight. Don't want to waste my money if they are no good.

My mum's boy had stitches in his side recently, the inflatable buster collar was pretty useless, so she bought one of those comfy cones, I think they're called. The soft buster collar type thing, that's been really very good.

My little girl has just been through an op which left her with a wound along her belly. I bought the Comfy Collar and I have to say it was brilliant, she was quite happy wearing it and we didnt suffer with the usual bumping into funiture etc. The only thing to remember is make it a snug fit.

I bought one of those inflatable collars for my girl. She was being spayed and then straight after recovering from that was having a cataracts op. She didn't need it for the spay. With the Cataracts she had to have a normal vets Elizabethan collar at first but I had hoped to let her have the inflatable one later on so she could get more comfortable at night etc - as she only had to be stopped from rubbing her eye on ground (westies rub their faces to clean teeth and beards after dinner etc so it was important to stop her doing that).

Unfortunately ...... she went through 7 Elizabethan collars in the first 10 days or so as she kept ramming them, catching them on things to break them off etc etc.... the inflatable one... well I hated the way it looked - like one of those medieval metal torture collars as it is so big around the neck.... and apparently my girl did too since it took her an hour of madness to find a way to rip the cover away from its seams and somehow puncture the inner tube.... I have no idea to this day how she did it.

If you don't have a scallywag Houdini like my girl - and one that doesn't decide to go deaf to all instructions once she had her eyesight back and run havoc around the house in a distructive whirlwind like a puppy until she breaks or pops the collar off - in other words a normal calm dog that does as they're told at least some of the time.........I would say that they are actually really good - any normal dog would definitely have found them more comfortable to sleep in, give them more visibility, and still effective at preventing accessing back-end wounds - though make sure you get a good size and not small in any way as they might just be able to access their back leg if it doesn't protrude enough I would think.... If you have a nutjob like mine? Well.... nothing works... just stock up on about 30 Elizabethan Collars and duck-tape if you end up with them on for 6 weeks like my girl...

However... I did have a floppy soft blue collar - no good for my girl as she could rub her face - but that one would definitely have been really comfy yet still, I would think, offer a thin barrier between mouth and foot.