WG: [British co-worker], guess what? Jasper has to wear an Elizabethan collar!*
BCW: Is he wearing a doublet also?
WG: No, it's actually one of those cone-thingys around his head. They just call it an Elizabethan collar.
BCW: I thought maybe he'd been in the dress-up box.
WG: We don't actually have a dress-up box.
BCW: I may have been watching too much Little Bear.** The cat in Little Bear goes in the dress-up box.

*I had to take him to the vet on Wednesday. He'd been chewing on his tail until the point that it was bloody, elciting the following excellent questions:
Aquamama: How did you end up with such high-maintenance cats?
TRgirl: How did he manage that with no teeth?
The vet doesn't know why he did that, and says we may have to amputate his tail. Apparently, Jasper is not so much going to pass away as have body parts removed until nothing remains.

**He has a four-year-old daugter.