Anti lick Plasters

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Diesel has cut his leg so picked up the above at the pet shop today. They contain ground cayenne pepper, oregano leaf, lemon powder & clove oil to stop licking. I applied some gauze dressing before applying plaster and I bought the large size as it has to overlap on itself. Well it lasted all of five minutes, I turned my back to make a cup of tea and he had it off, it was well sucked. There are 2 in a packet and they were £6 so a bit of a waste of money.

Anyone else have any bright ideas or tips. My back up is vetwrap soaked in anti chew which has a bitter taste but I dont hold up much hope for that being any more successful.
 
Bitter Apple is the only anti chew stuff I've ever found effective and it works out very cheap to use.

In over 20 years I've only had a handful of dogs like the taste. You can't apply it to a cut but can put it on a dressing.
 
Maybe this is only available in France, but our vet gave my girly an anti lick injection and it's the only thing that's worked for her!
She had several sore licked places and there was absolutely no point putting plasters or vetwrap on, even if I dowsed them in chilli sauce. She's sadistic when it comes to curried now!
there is always the old faithful - those dreaded 'lampshades'!
 
I've been using a really sticky top dressing called Polster which I got from the vet for my horse who had a wound in an impossible to bandage place.

Polster is the stickiest thing in the land of stickiness. On my lab's leg I use a gauze (with manuka honey on it) which I stick to one side of the polster, and then wrap it around lab's leg, and then I cover it with vet wrap and secure that with some electrical tape. The vet wrap is only to try to keep it cleaner.

The polster doesn't shift for anything, its very hard to get off so you have to make sure you haven't got any of it over the actual wound or it would pull and hurt to remove it, and I use scissors to snip at it in tiny increments until its off.

http://www.hyperdrug.co.uk/Animal-Polster/productinfo/POLSTERP/
 
Thanks guys for your thoughts and advice.

He hates the cone of shame he just sits there and is frightened to move.

I have been bandaging it prior to walking just to keep it clean but we are going to have a lot of rain tomorrow which means mud so I will have to be selective where I walk him.
 
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