BiteNotCollar, 5" W x 24" L

I got this for my lab who has a hot-spot on her front leg. She licks it until it bleeds. When I bandage it up, she sneaks off and eats the bandages. I've tried various cones, but she hates them. Those cones impair her vision and she just shuts down and won't move at all.With this collar, it not only keeps her from having access to lick her leg/hot-spot, but she's been much more receptive to wearing it (pretty much) 24/7 while her wound heals. She does not hesitate to get up and follow me around, and she even will jump up and off the bed with it on. I just wish I had found this option earlier.Now, there was one issue that I had, and that being the red flat-strap that is included with the collar. It was not long enough to go around her. So I cut it off. That worked fine for a day or so until she figured out how to get the collar off. So I then drilled a 1/2" hole in the collar (right about where the red strap was originally attached) and threaded a soft rope thru it, reattached the plastic clips that came with the red flat strap, and it works beautifully.Now she even can eat and drink with the collar on, and she's not touched her hot-spot in days.But I do recommend, if you can, taking it off every now and again...I do and she loves being able to rub her face/neck against my knee or the side of the furniture.I would definitely recommend this product!

I had high hopes for the BiteNot collar. My dog had surgery on a hind leg and I needed to protect herf incision from licking and chewing. I was hoping to substitute the BiteNot for the usual plastic "cone". Unfortunately, the BiteNot collar rotated on the dog's head, pulling on the chest strap. Also, despite being the recommended size for my dog, the collar also tended to push up over the base of ears, making her very uncomfortable. I could not keep the collar in a comfortable, effective place for her.

It is very important that the outer edges meet exactly, so they don’t gouge the dogs neck by one side sticking up more than the other. Keep checking during use to be sure the ends you wrap around join exactly even, without one side higher than the other.

I struggled a bit in deciding whether to tag this as 4 stars or five, but ultimately decided on 4 since I do have one concern:First, the good: Despite the fit being tight, this was a simply HUGE improvement versus a more standard Elizabethan collar (aka, "e-collar"). With the e-collar, my dog was constantly crashing into things, getting frustrated, swinging it all around, and thus crashing into more things. He would also run into my wife and me, and the edge of the e-collar was sharp and hurt. With this collar, there is no edge like that, and he has had substantially less stress with it on, which has allowed us to reduce his anti-anxiety medication.As mentioned elsewhere, this collar operates a lot like a whiplash neck stabilizer. Instead of providing a wide shield as the e-collar does, it provides a stiff brace for the neck that doesn't allow the head to twist back - protecting all parts of your dog except for the lower front legs and, conceivably, the rear paws. Although stiff, it is well padded and doesn't seem to create discomfort. I've read of other dogs suffering hot spots under the collar or at the edges, but ours has had no such issue. Do realize you'll want the collar to be pretty snug (but not so snug as to restrict their airway) around the neck to avoid them sliding out of it. If snug, the combination of the shoulders at the lower end, and the ears at the top end will hold it firmly on, with the chest strap providing a little extra protection against them sliding out of it.Two concerns (only one is particularly significant):1) Size-wise, we ordered based on a mix of breed and weight. The collar is, however, very, very close to being too big. It fits, but if the dog was a single millimeter shorter in the neck it would not.2) Durability. We're not entirely sure exactly when or how it happened, but we discovered the chest strap was nearly worn all the way through in 4 places. It appears to be some sort of friction tear/cut in the strap, but we're baffled how that would even happen on a long-hair, mostly sedentary dog. Our best guess is that the strap folded in on itself and was cutting itself apart as he walked, laid-down, etc.. My wife was able to cut a couple of pieces out of it and sew the strap back together and we'll be watching closely for similar problems in the future. There is an additional stretch band/velcro strap that wraps around the outside of it that also appears to have cut off for reasons unknown - this happened while we were away on vacation and we have no input from the person taking care of the dog to explain what happened, so one more concern. It took about 3 weeks for these two strap issues to happen. This latter strap concern is the source of me dropping to 4 stars rather than giving it a full 5.