OvidaCat Adjustable Hood Kitten Breathable Anti Bite Muzzles Prevent from Cats Biting and Chewing, Safety Prevent for Small Pets Grooming (M(Upgraded))

We have two cats. One is almost 15 years old, and is my cat. Not by choice. My husband brought her home and she decided to imprint on me. It took me over five years to love her back though. I think it might be a Stockholm syndrome thing...but I'm not sure. I do love her though.The other is a 10 month old, almost completely blind, fearless, little psycho (this would be my husbands cat).Don't get me wrong, my cat was mean and obnoxious, long before she hit geriatric, so she is no angel either. I will refer to her as Demon and him as lil Psycho...since that's what I call them in real life (obviously not their actual names, just nicknames I use).Due to her old age, Demon needs medication, twice daily. Now, you would think the arthritis in her back, neck and hips, would stop her from being able to serpent herself around in a split second and bite a chunk out of you, if you try to put ANYTHING in her mouth...but it has not.No, she is just as agile as she was as a kitten, when it comes to attacking someone who is doing anything she doesn't like (such as giving her medicine, petting her or looking in her general direction). The ONLY person she even tolerates, in general, is me and even I cannot get away with giving her meds. So, we crush up her medicine and mix it in her EXTREMELY overpriced, geriatric cat, canned food (not to be confused with the special geriatric cat, dry food I must buy for her as well. Monthly, it cost more to feed her then it does to feed me...but I digress.Back to the hamster ball helmet.One of these medications is to make it where the Demon will poop. It took a rush to the emergency vet, and cost over $1500 for me to find out that Demon was not dying, but instead, just constipated.Well, Demon likes to eat half the can of food, walk away, go back about half and hour later, eat some of the dry food, leave again and finally finish her canned food around an hour after it is given to her. Since we lace her food with drugs, its pretty important that lil Psycho doesn't get to it. Unfortunately though, BOTH of them make this a very hard task to accomplish.Lil Psycho, would sneak his way in to the master bathroom (where we keep Demons food) and eat her food. Then gas out my house by using his cat box 10 times in one day! Seems if you don't need the medicine to poop, like Demon does, it is like swallowing an entire bottle of laxatives. After this happened a few times, something HAD to be done! The children were crying, the poor dog was whining and pacing, everyone was gagging....even with me standing guard, mask on, scoop in hand, to remove whatever monstrosity came out of that cats backside immediately, it was all to much.It was now biohazard warfare. And we were losing the war.Since, Demon doesn't like to eat all her food at once, locking her up with it, is out of the question as well. Why? Because she will sing the song of her people. This loud, nerve wrecking yowl, that she has perfected over the years to grate at you in such a way, that you will either bang your head in to a brick wall, in hopes of bursting your eardrums, or open the dang door and let her out of the room you have locked her in. And yes, she can do it nonstop FOR HOURS!So, we started locking up lil Psycho in the master bedroom instead, when we gave Demon her food. But he TORE IT UP! Anything he could knock over, he did, somehow he managed to get between the sliding doors of the closet and rip clothes down and I won't even begin to discuss what he did to the bathroom...(I still have PTSD flashbacks to the bathroom. It's just to painful to discuss.Undeterred, we found a way to block the closet, made sure we closed the bathroom door, and anything that would normally be on end tables or dressers, were put away, so that we could lock the lil Psycho in the master bedroom.However, it didn't take long for Demon to realize that lil Psycho was locked up, but as soon as she FINALLY finished her overpriced, drug laced, food...he was let out.So...She just quit finishing it.Yes, she would leave about quarter of a can behind, just so she wouldn't have to deal with (what I can only assume she views him as) her replacement. Problem was, she NEEDED to eat that food, since it had her drugs in it!All the while, lil Psycho was figuring out new and inventive ways to STILL wreck the bedroom as well.We needed to come up with a new plan.I wondered whether or not they made cat muzzles, like they do for dogs, so I looked on amazon and sure enough, THEY DO!!! But, unlike dog muzzle's, the cat muzzles cover the eyes. Now, yes, its mesh, so the cat can see through, but as I mentioned briefly above, lil Psycho has vision issues. He is completely blind in one eye and has VERY limited vision in the other. I might not like him, but I'm also not inhumane...I am not going to hinder his already limited sight even more.But then I saw the hamster ball helmet (not the real name, but its what we call it, and lets face it...it fits). I bought one, figuring it was worth a try and was almost giddy when it showed up! Lil Psycho actually held still the first time I put it on him (think he might be a bit touched in the head, because he thinks we are friends, but what's worse is, he thinks him and DEMON ARE FRIENDS...and I can tell you, without any doubt in my mind, Demon does not like him. She doesn't even tolerate him, let alone LIKE him, so he might be a bit touched).First hamster ball helmet lasted almost a week (longer then I anticipated, really). Somehow he cracked it at the top though, and next time he wore it, he slammed his head in to the leg of the coffee table until it broke.I ordered another...five more, actually...Because, whereas he was able to break it, it did do what it was bought to do. He could no longer eat Demons food! Plus, with him not being locked up any longer, she decided it wasn't worth leaving any behind anymore, as her fat butt does enjoy her upscale, extravagant, break the bank, food. And she started eating it all again.Is it a perfect fix? No.Lil' Psycho uses the hamster ball helmet to knock anything and everything off of a surface in protest. Whether it be the coffee table, desk, laptop, phones, medications, mail, boxes...it is a weapon. But much better then the biohazard war we were in before. Plus, makes everyone clean up. I call out that I'm getting ready to hamster ball Lil' Pyscho and drop the Demons food, and husband and kids scatter to find anything they might have left out, that they feel important, before the demolition begins.Not really sure if that is a bad thing though, or a bonus?Second ball has lasted about a month, so far. My oldest son had to pay a locksmith to rekey his car, just to find the keys a week later under a recliner (they were on a desk about four feet away from the recliner...and only found because one of my younger sons medications was missing and I was hunting for that in any place that little Psycho would be able to push it with the hamster ball helmet.Just found the medicine yesterday...only while looking for something else that was on the coffee table that was missing, after Demon got her evening meal. Don't fret though! Seems that life saving meds for children are refillable early as long as you have a good excuse! The pharmacist said my story was to detailed and intriguing to be made up and I was able to refill the meds for the boy. Guess addicts haven't used the whole "hamster ball helmet on a cat being used as a battering ram" excuse enough to make it unbelievable.But again, I do want to emphasize, it DOES DO EXACTLY WHAT I BOUGHT it for. Lil Psycho has yet to get a morsel of Demons food since the hamster ball helmet came in to our lives! Only reason I am giving it 4 stars, instead of 5, is because he broke the first one so quickly. Seems he knows I have a stash now though, so he is finding more unique ways to vent his frustration over wearing it.

Put it on the cat and she didn't mind it was so easy to cut her nails so I don't have to pay for it anymore I can do it myself

Ok so I have a very large, very "DON'T TOUCH ME" long-haired cat who is an absolute ~p a i n~ in the you-know-what to brush, let alone get mats off of. Usually I have to get someone's help and wrestle her down to cut out the mats, because she is not having it and she will bite the absolute **** out of you. It results in a lot of stress for her, and a lot of stress (and damage from her biting) for the humans involved.I saw a groomer on Youtube use a cat muzzle like this, and decided to see if I could find one. Lo and behold, Amazon came through.I measured my cat's neck (I'm still shocked she let me), and got the large size. Once it arrived, it took a couple tries to get the right fit with the band and make it so she couldn't get it off. But once I did, ohhhh buddy.She squalled. She threatened. She screamed and fussed and hissed a little. But you know what?I GOT ALL THE MATS. AND I DIDN'T GET BITTEN.This thing is magic, folks. I am SO GLAD I bought this. She was much less stressed over the whole affair, and is now mat-free. My life is going to be so much easier going forward.

I am a professional cat groomer, and we use these muzzles for the very difficult cats that bite. It stays on better than the air muzzle, although is slightly more difficult to put on. This is our preferred muzzle and keeps everybody safe. The cats are calmer because they can see and breathe easily. I wish it came with extra Velcro straps, that's the only flaw. We have 5 of these and I need to buy more.

This product could be a little more sturdy but overall it is a life saver or should I say finger saver. My little man is a beast and as much ch as I love him I love my fingers without holes in them. Some people may say it’s barbaric but if you work with your hands this will allow you do keep doing so. He was good as a kitten letting me cut his nails but one day he was like no we are not doing this and that was before he was 7 months old. This product is good and a little challenging getting it on with one person. My kitty was a runt so his head did not fit and kept sliding out so I took some box foam and hot glued it on the rim to give it a snug fit and it worked like a charm. He had the cloth face mask at first and I almost lost a thumb. It’s breathable so he can see and only freaks out for a minute doing bath time. Nothing should take over 20 mins nail one week and bath the next. He is upset but gets over it, I highly recommend it, I have had cats before but he believes he is the boss.

This helmet does what it advertises -- protects the human from bites.It seems relatively sturdy, made of heavy plastic. It comes in a box that's also sturdy enough to use for storage.The helmet goes on relatively easily and quickly, clamping around the cat's neck and then securing with a wrapped, velcro-like cord. The helmet's edges don't have to meet for the helmet to stay on securely, which was a bonus because my cat was in a bag and its edges were in the way. The wrap cord initially doesn't seem like it's holding securely because it doesn't have a heavy grip like velcro, but my cat was unable to get it off, even after a paw accidentally escaped me while cutting nails. The helmet allows the cat to breathe easily and comfortably.The only drawback is that the cat can see what you're doing. A cloth mask that fits over the face and covers the eyes was better for one of my cats, who was calmer when she couldn't see me bringing the clippers near her toes. The other was perfectly fine with it.

It does work but it is flimsy and I was quite scared I was going to pinch the cats ears while trying to close because needless to say he didn't just sit there nicely for me to squeeze his head in there. Once on though he only flung it off his head once

The fit at the neck is for regular adult house cats, not kittens. Kittens heads slide right out of it. Fit is not adjustable

The plastic does feel like it would crack if hit hard so make sure your supplies are ready before putting on the cat.

Works great!

Terrible product for a cat, it was to heavy for the cat to lift safely

For something so expensive it broke on the second use… very disappointed!!!