[Dailydrool] Advice on belly bands?

[Esther Strom]

I don't know what pattern you used, but the one I made for Basil has 
elastic on both edges, so it can't slip.

-Esther, Basil, and Waldo ATB

On 12/6/11 11:06 AM, Val Brewer wrote:
>
> As suggested by Droolers, we have decided to use a belly band on Bo at 
> night. He is fine during the day, no problems with using the great out 
> of doors, but at night he simply will not go outside to potty. Because 
> of his meds. (steroids) he needs to pee frequently. I have been going 
> outside with him several times a night, but lately he has not been 
> waking me and using the floor instead. He is not crateable, due to 
> severe claustrophobia. (As my then teenage stepdaughter used to say, 
> "Bo has ISSUES"--drawing out the last word into about ten syllables,) 
> He also wants to be near us at night so the boogie monsters don't get him.
> Okay--so I went to the Internet and learned how to make a belly band. 
> I made him a nice one that fits, with an incontinence pad in it. 
> Here's the problem--Bo is shaped like a trim elderly gentleman with a 
> pot belly or a trim but very pregnant lady. The band goes around his 
> widest section. Last night our trial run was a bust--I woke up once 
> and the band had slid over his narrower hips and come off. The second 
> time I looked, it had slid forward around his ribs, exposing the parts 
> I need covered. I'm looking for suggestions. I'm thinking that if I 
> tapered it like a lampshade, making it twice as wide so it covered his 
> entire middle between front and back legs, that might work. Any ideas 
> would be appreciated.
>
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