I picked up my cat today after hernia surgery. It was quite severe and seems to have stemmed from a bad spaying operation 11 years ago. She had to go to a specialist for some very expensive surgery.
She was wearing a sort of compression baby vest when I picked her up this morning and is meant to wear it for 10-14 days. When I got her home she had pooped in the vest within half an hour due to pooping during an escape attempt when it was half off her. I washed and dried the vest and put it back on. She has escaped it again.
I can't make it tighter to prevent escape, it's already fairly tight but she's very smart and sort of hooks her back legs in to pull it down from the neck, threading her front paws out as she does through the tiny neck hole, pulling the neck hole down her entire body, over the wound and off her back legs.
What do I do? It's partly compression and partly to stop her getting at her stitches. She hasn't gone for her stitches yet but it's only a matter of time while I sleep.