Dubbed, "The Strock", it's a combination strap and sock designed to prevent dogs from licking and gnawing on their leg injuries.

The new product, an invention of Lyn Townsend, a former IBM employee, was meant to provide doggies with a more comfortable solution to the "lamp shade". It started when her Bichon-Maltese mix hurt his paw and started licking it. So she came up with the design for The Strock, and when other people saw it, they wanted it also.

Since then, Lyn has featured The Strock on ABC's "American Inventor", and started a company around it, Best Buddy Pet Products Inc. Her dog's veterinarian suggested making it waterproof, so she went "back to the drawing board" and made it so.

And now you can buy them online! Prices range from $9.99 to $17.50.

This probably would've worked great when Max ripped his dew claw a couple years ago. I put an elastic bandage with tape over his paw, and called him "Gimpy" for a few weeks.