Back in August I posted this about Ed and his leak. And our solution. Well for a month we've tried the fleece band. It has issues. It gets wet, it's not too absorbent, he gets fussy once it's wet and tries to get it off. Basically wet fleece is bad. So... On to prototype two.

This new model is made from a cotton dish towel that one of the dogs destroyed. Well they chewed some good food bit out of the corner anyhow. So.. Since it was headed for the rag bag anyhow... I cut it in half lengthwise. Took the smaller half (the one with the end chewed out) and cut off all the straggly ends and the finished edges, and folded it up into a pad several layers thick and about 3.5" wide by 6" long. I then sewed this into an outer band with a length sufficient to go around the dog. Once again closed with velcro.

So this model has more layers in the necessary area, and is stiffer, so he'll have a harder time escaping it. The old one he would some times worm out of, but more often he'd just push it back far enough that it wasn't covering the leaky bit.

Action shots to follow, once I get my camera back. It went on vacation to Russia without me.