I don't understand the down look.. I'm convinced those things must be awesome. A few years back when the better half and I decided that I would get "fixed" - we had our springer spaniel at the same time so I decide both my dog and I would go in on the same morning to get "fixed" so we could empathize with each other in a male-bonding sort of way... Let's just say the dog with the cone on his head recovered much faster than me, he was happy and chipper and couldn't understand my lying on the couch for a week and not wanting to play ... "look dad - I have a CONE on my head!!!" I wanted to have a cone on my head myself to see if it would make me that chipper about it.