English: A cat wearing an Elizabethan collar after surgery. The cat, a one-year-old neutered male domestic longhair, had chewed up and swallowed a soft plastic cat toy that had to be surgically removed from his small intestine. The collar is attached to an elastic net covering the cat's upper body; the net originally covered the entire body and served to further protect the wound, but was partially removed to help the cat carry out its bodily functions more easily.