Feline protective garment

Claim 1

Neck garment for a female cat adapted to deter its impregnation by males while being worn and capable of being worn during all other normal feline activities, comprising: a. an integral band adapted to be wrapped around and span a feline neck without noticeably restricting its mobility and further presenting a texture sufficiently smooth to preclude a male cat from coupling by obtaining a normal grip on the upper neck of the female cat by the teeth as is normally required to accomplish copulation, said band having an external surface comprising a flexible sheet of an elastomeric material bonded to an underlying fabric-like integral band, said sheet being of a dimension and durability sufficient to permit its trimming along its posterior edge to size the garment to the specific feline neck to be outfitted; and b. a first and second elongated band segment connected to extent in opposite directions from the lateral edges of said integral band and being of length sufficient to partially overlap one another, each of said segments having a free end and a substantially flat inner and outer surface, and an attachment means adapted to permit the inner surface of one segment to be interruptably secured to the outer surface of the other segment, whereby the assembled garment forms a hollow collar shaped like a conical frustrum that conforms to the cervical contour while in close proximity to the feline neck.