Review on 3 PCS GLADOG Soft Dog Cone Collar - Except XL Size - Adjustable E-Collar For Large/Medium/Small Dogs & Cats After Surgery Recovery by Nicole Cook

I don’t like this cone, but it wasn’t my first pick either and I needed one ASAP for my pup. It had the soonest arrival time, but the sizing is off. I got the XL because, first of all, I didn’t need three cones for one dog but I also read people complaining that the cones were too short and the XL was deeper. I get the benefit of getting three and being able to size up or down, but you’re also paying more to get those three instead of one. I measured my dog and he was in the lower range for the XL, but still well within it. Luckily he has a big head because this would have fallen off a million times if he didn’t and it ended up sitting down closer to his chest (a couple inches below his collar) because his neck (the part I measured and confirmed this should fit before ordering) was way too small for it.Aside from that, it’s also WAY too deep. I measured from his collar to the edge of his chin before ordering (I needed one that would cover his full head because his injury was on his chin) and confirmed this size should be the perfect depth. Surprise, it wasn’t. The poor boy was swamped in this thing and ran into every door frame and table leg. I was worried he wouldn’t be able to eat or drink with it on, but he figured it out.Additionally, this cone is made of generic, foggy plastic so they can’t see through it at all and have no peripheral vision (part of why he ran into anything and everything with it on). Every time he hit something there was a new blemish on the plastic so it was clearly not going to last much longer than the two weeks we needed it for (ideally I’d like to keep a cone on hand for the future, but I won’t be keeping this one). ALSO (and this is a BIG issue for me because it could be potentially dangerous), the design is awful because the cone overlaps itself if you need to have it on a tighter setting and leaves a flap of plastic that is not secured down inside the cone. When my dog was crated with this on (near the end of his two weeks) he was able to chew that flap and the plastic broke down into pieces super easily. Luckily he didn’t swallow any, but some of those pieces were pretty sharp so if he had we could have been making an emergency vet visit. We ended up cutting the two week period short by a couple days because of this.So overall, ya it did its job. He could wear it all day, it covered his chin so he couldn’t get to it, he healed up nicely, but I was itching to take it off of him as soon as possible because it was obnoxiously oversized, potentially dangerous, and falling apart. Their measurements are WAY off and their quality is subpar.