Cat won’t keep cone on after neuter
So today me and my family got our cat (<PERSON>, 6 months old) neutered and upon picking him up we were told he’s in between cone sizes so it sort of had to be tied onto his head with a piece of medical gauze. As soon as we got in the car he managed to kick the cone off, and after attempting to put it on for about 20 minutes when we got home, we just decided to go back to the vet and ask if they could help us get it back on in a way that’d make it stay more permanently. They were a belt to get it back on with a collar harnessing it onto him (which he also absolutely hates wearing normally, hence why they didn’t harness it with the collar in the first place) but once again, as soon as we got in the car he managed to undo the collar and get the cone off. 311
At this point we’re panicking and trying to figure out how the hell to get it to stay, and in the end we probably spend a good hour and a half trying to get it to stay, along with buying a little donut thing to go around his neck as an alternate solution to the cone, which also ended up failing. Eventually he knocked out and we decided to take a break and hope he’d just leave the affected area alone once he woke up, fast forward to as im writing this and he WILL NOT stop trying to lick the area and i’ve just decided to try and keep him occupied until he knocks out again.
Me and my parents aren’t sure what to do anymore because it feels like we’ve tried everything in order to keep the cone on his head and prevent the licking, but he just won’t keep it on. And I have other commitments that can’t allow me to stay up all night and be around all day making sure he doesn’t lick the area, I truly have no idea what to do. Is there any other ways to get him to avoid licking the area without using the cone? 210