hello all, im new to this site and would really like some advice. i have a 10month old alaskan kleekai (i'm aware some people on here may have got the wrong impression about this breed :-( he is lovely, but thats another descusion) he has recently had to have a large splinter/thorn cut out from his paw, he has been in bandages for the past week but i went to the vet to have them changed yesterday and as he was getting very sore from the bandage  the vet said to put an old sock over his paw. i have to take the sock off three times a day to apply a steriod cream, he does not try to chew the sock but keeps licking it. so i went out today and picked up a buster coller to stop him licking but ever since i put it on him ( about two hours ago) he seems so depressed he wont even get up, he is just laying here! i had a GSD before and allthough she did not like whearing the buster collers she never seemed this upset (just used to knock everthing over :-) lol) im just worried about him a he is not even trying to get it off and wont respond to treats.
any advice ?

thanks guys :-)

Hello and WELCOME :) :)
My Yank was castrated and used to lick his scar making it sore so I put a buster coller on him. Well he ran around like a loony and then sat down and didnt move AT ALL!!!!!
He would be fine wth it off, but as soon as I put it on, he wouldnt move from where I placed him.  I had to take it off to take him outside to toilet!!!!
It did actually work out quite well for me, as mum looked after him while I was at work and all he did was sit on his bed all day apart from when she took him out!!!! Easier for her than when Ebba was spayed and kept hitting her legs every time she moved LOL
After a week he was okay to have the buster coller off (I did used to take it off as often as possible before that) and he was fine, no lasting damage!!!
So dont panic too much. The buster collar is the lesser of two evils, and its only for about a week, he will cope  :) :)
Lea :) :)

thanks for your reply at least i know he wont hate me forever now :-). it just so upsetting seeing him like this, i cant even walk him at the moment as the vet has advised not :-( and he is usally such an excitable energetic little boy, with no way to vent this he must be going nuts.
thanks again i know it will be best for him in the long run :-)

Hi and welcome to the forum :)
Totally agree with Lea, so cant add much more.
But what I did want to say is, regarding your comment on thoughts on your breed Im a member of a forum for sled dog mushers (SDC) and many of the Big guys who run the Iditarod and Yukon etc post regularly there and I can tell you in a recent thread regarding a new site advertising 'Miniture Huskys' alot of the old guys were saying the KK's they'd met were great and at least the breed were health tested, so if you can win those old grizzly bears over I woukdnt worry about anyone else ;)
I met my first AKK's in Canada and they were certainly little characters :)

Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your boy.