What’s sadder than a dog wearing a cone?

A cone wearing a cone, a thunder vest and a sad, sad face. 

It’s been a couple of days for someone. It’s storming so she’s currently parked under my desk. 

Poor Roxy.

Yeah, not the happiest puppy at the moment. 

#Conelyfe

Pris is going on like 14 years pretty much full time in her collar and sends her deepest cone-dolances. The amazing thing about animals is they adapt and overcome and learn to maximize their effect on their surroundings. Here's to Roxy getting through her time in the cone and getting on a path to healing. (Super adorable protecto-sweater, too )

Aww...I once had a dog that was mostly well-behaved, but if there was a bad thunderstorm he would mysteriously break into the house (!) and hide silently behind some furniture. It was always a surprise to find an outside dog hiding there. He looked like a much bigger version of Roxy.

This could be even sadder with a dog wheelchair added in and a phone strapped to the thunder vest playing Sarah McLachlan music, creating the legendary "sad-faced wheeled megaphone McLachlan doggo" arrangement

I agree about the wheelchair thingies, that i's a sad thing that the doggos have to have them at all - but - there are YouTube vids of dogs with those wheel devices and the exuberance and joy on their faces when they can get up and go again is wonderful to see!

Your lamp looks very sad.

Feel better soon Roxy.

A most sad lamp.

No more rain so I should take off the vest. (She seems to enjoy wearing the vest, though.)

A sad dog wearing a cone with a freshly amputated leg?  

Casey says "Hang in there, Roxy.  Your pack will take care of you."

 

Universally known as the "Cone Of Shame".

Yep, we’re spoiling her more than usual. 

I much prefer the more formal name of the cone of shame, the Elizabethan Collar. When I see paintings of Elizabethan-era people with their collars on, I imagine them instead as cones of shame, and I chuckle every time.

Bella also hates the cone of shame.
 

We had to take it off of her because she wouldn't move, at all. She was frozen like a statue.  

Our sighthounds don't get cones. They get muzzles. With necks bigger than their heads cones simply slip off when they put their heads down.

Vet techs are always surprised when we ask them to take it and keep it (and the charge).

David, have you tried CBD treats? One of our girls hated t-storms. Once we got the dosage good and knew a storm was coming, we just had to get it in her about thirty minutes ahead of time. She wouldn't mellow out, but she wouldn't be as nervous either. I can recommend a few that my wife sells at her store.

But can they pick up HBO?

In reply to vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) :

We haven’t tried that, but the vest does seem to calm her. Today, though, we had a really loud storm. (The rest of the local GRM crew can attest.)

In reply to vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) :

With our Great Pyrenees', we had trouble with the CBD dosing. Sometimes one unit would knock them out. Sometimes 4 units later they'd still be running around being nervous wrecks. 

Now we just use vet prescribed Gabapentin+Trazodone. Works very well for fireworks. 

Are dog Cooper called the cone of happy

He was the happiest damn dog ever.

mtn said:

In reply to vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) :

With our Great Pyrenees', we had trouble with the CBD dosing. Sometimes one unit would knock them out. Sometimes 4 units later they'd still be running around being nervous wrecks. 

Now we just use vet prescribed Gabapentin+Trazodone. Works very well for fireworks. 

My guess is that the content was inconsistent. That's one of the common issues with unregulated products, CBD in particular.

In reply to Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) :

Yes. We tell customers they'll have to monitor their dog/car and adjust dosage accordingly. 

Cone is supposed to come off tomorrow, but she’s be adapting. 

Current status:

My wife wants me to wear a cone when we go out in public.

We got the word on Friday: No more cone.

Someone’s much happier. 

Our 65Lb emotional potato of a pit has the exact same vest. It works! Any thunder or fireworks and shes a shaky mess. Put on the "big girl vest" and shes not as shaky and is OK with just hiding or gluing herself to your leg.