This is nearly perfect. It may be Augie's barrel chest making it fit oddly, but it's much tighter around her underarms than it is across her neck and shoulders. She's almost 30" around at her underarms, but her front legs are only 10" long from armpit to wrist, so I ordered both a medium and a large, thanks to free returns. I took the large out first and held it up near her and could tell right away it would be too big, so I folded it back up and put it back in the display envelope. It didn't touch her so I feel okay about returning it.
The medium was a slight struggle to get on because she went limp as a cooked noodle, as she always does when I put on her harness. She had a lump removed from her elbow area and has many sutures there, because there's very little flesh in that area and the incision had to be large enough to expose the whole lump, even though it wasn't huge. (Still waiting on biopsy but Dr said the lump came right off with no digging, had no tentacles and no blood vessels involved, so prognosis is promising.)
I wrapped some non-stick wound tape around her suture area before putting the sleeve on, since I could tell I'd have to tug on the sleeve a bit and didn't want the sutures to catch on it. Once I got the sleeve on, there was a lot of tugging and arranging and rearranging. Even after she walked around in it for a while, I adjusted the snaps and Velcro twice. So now I know that when she's out in the yard, I should keep it as tight as is comfortable for her, and when she's just hanging around indoors, loosen it a bit so she can lounge comfortably.
She's not a chewer -- I got this just to keep her from licking the sutures and so that she doesn't have to wear the Zen collar (which is better than the Cone of Shame but still not optimal). She's been sleeping soundly at night without the collar, next to me, thanks to a low dose of gabapentin, so I plan on removing the sleeve for sleep as well. Plus I want to check her sutures and let that area breathe,
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