Wait, wait, wait! Before you condemn me for dressing up my cat, hear me out! Harvey has been scratching himself for weeeeeks now, and has not responded well (read: at all!) to the antibiotics and steroids from the vet. I finally got sick and tired of him licking his skin off, that I made a little jacket/ tube for him to protect his skin. Well, that lasted a few solid days before he unintentionally learned how to wriggle his way out of it. The scratching still continued, so I made a visit to Petsmart to get him something with a neck that would stay on.
The prototype
Now, the really bad part starts. Since no one is crazy enough to dress up their cat, the only pet-sized shirts were in the dog section (wait, it gets worse) And the only one in his size that didn't say "Daddy's Little Princess" said ....
You can see how much he has scratched just his head in the left-hand picture. His back and ribs are worse than that :(
Strangely enough, Harvey doesn't seem to mind the shirt. Every once in a while he will try to jump out of it (Scene: kitchen floor, action: cat randomly leaps forward then walks away calmly as if nothing happened), but other than that, Harvey really hasn't protested. Back in the day when Mr Frank was first licking his fur off, the vet said that those anti-licking collars are pretty traumatic for pets, so we should try a little shirt first. So there is valid medical statements supporting the abject humiliation of my fluffy boy.
But isn't he adorable in his little shirt?!?!!?
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