Suitical Recovery Suit for Cats | Spay and Neutering Cat Surgery Recovery Suit for Male or Female | Soft Fabric for Skin Conditions | XS | Neck to Tail 15.7” - 17.7" | Black Camouflage

I was hesitant to purchase after reading some reviews that the suit was baggy on some kitties! My newly turned one year old kitty just needed to have kitties taken out and be spayed, so she had a very invasive procedure, and I really wanted to find a way to make her more comfortable than she was wearing an e-collar from the vet. I tried a baby onesie from target but I had to tie it up in certain areas to fit a cat, and she was able to get out of it if it was too loose.With this suit from here, she has been sooo comfortable and unable to lick her surgery area AND has not tried to get out of it at all. In fact, she seems to really like it! The XXsmall size fit her perfectly. She’s 9pounds and about 1 year old.

An absolute LIFESAVER! My kitten had surgery with a 5 inch incision, and I needed to keep her from licking her stitches. I love the fabric and design of this. The neck is a stretchable one, no strings, and the underside has an additional layer of fabric to protect the incision. The snaps around the back leg and the overall design are great -- she can use the litter box with nothing getting onto the fabric. At night, my vet said to use a collar with the suit since I didn't have eyes on her, so I bought a soft "flower" collar on Amazon, and it works well with this suit also. I bought two of these so that I could change her into a clean suit while she recovers. I cannot imagine the recovery period without this . . . and it's so cute! I will say that I ordered the first suit according to the website's measurements and had to send that back and go to the next size, which fits perfectly with no excess. Really a quality product and well worth the money. Highly recommend!!

This suit was an absolute lifesaver for us and our cat! Buddy was attacked by another animal and had stitches on his abdomen. His recovery was over a month, and this suit allowed him to be free of the awful cone. We ordered a few different brands; the others were less expensive but he was able to wriggle out of them quickly, or else he tore through the fabric. He never escaped this one, and the quality of fabric and stitching was excellent. It also has a built-in pocket in the belly area for gauze. Do yourself and your cat a favor and spend the extra $ on this one.

The smallest size (3XS) fit a wriggly petite (6 pound) cat. I gave it to the vet before her spay surgery and she had it on when I went to pick her up. After a very short adjustment period of 1-2 hours, she was able to move normally and kept it on for 2 weeks. I like that the open flap allowed you to peek at her incision before snapping it closed again. Overall I’m very that I discovered this as a more comfortable alternative to a cone and as a bonus, everybody was a fan of the tiger print!The only thing is that it did sometimes get wet when she went potty. When this happened, we hand washed and air dried or dried it in the dryer. This only happened 1-2 times and was manageable.

The Tiger surgical suit was a success in protecting her incision from herself or two older cats during her two weeks post-op.

We got this for our 6 month old female kitten who was due to be spayed soon. She is tiny. At the time I ordered this suit, she weighed almost 5 1/2 pounds, measured about 12 inches in length, with about a 7-inch neck, and 11.5 inch chest diameter. (These measurements are approximate - it's really hard to accurately measure a squirmy kitten.) We thought she would be more comfortable in this than in a cone of shame.When we got the suit in, we tried it on her a day or two before her surgery, to make sure it fit. It was kind of a struggle to get her head through the turtleneck collar, even though it is stretchy. It was also tricky to get both her front legs through the leg holes at the same time, because, once we got one leg in, she had already pulled the other one out. We finally got both legs through at the same time. Once we got all that done, it wasn't too hard to roll the suit down, and fasten the hind leg straps. The one tricky part there was keeping her tail clear, and not catching it up in one of the rear straps.Once she was in the suit, it looked like a good fit, and it looked cute on her. (I guess I should've taken a picture.) We didn't try out the collar loops, since we were just checking it for fit, and were just going to take it right back off of her. She didn't seem to like it much, but, we didn't expect that. We figured post-surgery, she would be coming off anesthesia, and would adjust to it after a while.When I dropped her off at the veterinary's office the morning of her surgery, I handed off the suit, and showed them the collar loops. We don't use collars on our cats, since they are inside cats only, but I suggested that, when they put the suit on her after surgery, that they tie something through the collar loops snugly, like a strip of gauze or something, to keep her from pulling out though the neck, since it is stretchy. (When they put ecollars on animals without collars, they usually tie them on with a strip of gauze, so I thought something like that might work with the collar loops on this thing.)She came home from the vet with the Suitical on, and had it on for a few hours afterward. About three hours in, she pulled all her legs inside the suit, and pushed out of the suit through the neck. The vet had, apparently not tied anything through the collar loops as we had requested. (I guess we should have checked when she got home, but we would have had to pull the turtleneck back to be able to see that nothing was securing it, so it wasn't immediately obvious that they hadn't followed instructions.)We had, fortunately, also requested a cone from the vet. We had to put the cone on her, because it had been so difficult to get her head through the turtleneck collar in the first place, and we couldn't imagine doing that again without injuring her, given that she was obviously awake enough to get out of the suit in the first place, and so would probably struggle if we tried to put it back on her, which would not have been good for her incision.If you want to use this suit on a cat, I strongly suggest that you use the collar loops. If you don't have a collar for your cat, tie a strip of gauze, cord, or some kind of strap through the collar loops, because, if your cat is at all athletic, he or she can and will get out through the neck.Pros:The suit is cut correctly, and your cat should be able to use the litterbox in the suit, with no need to open the rear straps.It does have collar straps, which are recommended if your cat is an escape artist.I like that suit has openable rear straps, which would have made it easy to check her spay incision without removing the suit.The size chart seems, as far as I can tell, to be more or less accurate. When I first started looking at surgery suits for our kitten, it appeared that the smallest size would be too big for her, but, after a couple of other suit failures, she had grown enough that it appeared that the smallest size would fit her. Technically, it did. Two weeks earlier, the XXX small would have been too large for her.Cons:I really dislike the turtleneck design. It makes it very difficult to get on the cat, and, if you don't use the collar loops, your cat can probably get out through the neck. I also wish that that loops were on the outside, rather than on the inside. Many cat and dog collars have fairly aggressive plastic or metal hardware, and I feel like the thick turtleneck design is going to press the collar hardware into the animal's neck more than it would be normally, without something over it pressing down on it.I also didn't like that the suit was a pullover style, and I didn't love the snap fasteners at the rear.Also, the XXXS size is still pretty big. It's become pretty common to spay kittens at the age of about 6 months, or even younger, and if your kitten is a bit below average in size, the XXXS may still be too big for her. It would be nice if these were offered in at least one size smaller.Some improvements I would suggest, based on features I have seen on other recovery suits, are either collar loops on the outside of the neck (instead of the inside), or a cinch cord inside the neck, or a fully openable neck with velcro fasteners.Also, we have had fairly good luck with a suit that was fully openable, so that all the fasteners could be opened and the suit laid out flat, then wrapped around the cat and fastened. The problem it, all we have seen in that style were not constructed properly, or were not openable in back.Honestly, even just changing from a stretchy turtleneck to a velcro neck or cinch neck I think would be a great improvement. Factually, if the neck will stretch enough for your cat's head to fit through, more than likely your cat can get its shoulders through the neck, also. Once your cat has its head and shoulders through, full escape is trivial. Your cat will squirt out through the neck and out of the suit in about 1-2 seconds. An openable or adjustable neck would be a huge improvement to this suit.