- The inflatable dog cone collar protects your pets from injuries, rashes, and postoperative wounds, prevents pets from biting and licking in their injured area or the surgical site and promote recovery from surgery or wounds. Attention: this dog recovery collar mainly protects dog's head, neck, and forelimb. It may be not suitable for long body shape dogs with long snouts, long legs and long tails such as Afhan hound, Dashounds, Dalmation and Dobermann etc..