Our cat, Dougie, still has to wear a collar because of his accident a month ago. He has to wear it 'cos the daft bugger keeps biting the stitches on his stump despite the collar - which is regularly tightened. He can't scratch his neck, so guess who has to do the scratching every time he appears in the kitchen? And, as soon as he's had enough, he jumps down and goes back to his slumber - the cat, not me.