I really sympathise with you on this one. Our dog came back from a couple of days in a boarding kennels with very mild happy tail. Over the next days he wouldn’t leave it alone so we went to the vets. The vet bandaged it and put a funnel on him but he managed to get it off in the night and eat the dressing. Now we were worried it was going to get stuck. Back to the vets. Another dressing, this time with a muzzle to stop him ripping it off. Over the next few days we were in a constant battle trying to clean it and re dress it but it got worse. The dressing was just making it wet and it got badly infected. After about 10days of constant vet visits and battles trying to keep different dressings on, bits of pipe with holes in etc the vet finally agreed to dock him. Within a day it was much better. Easier to stop him knocking it. Harder to get at the dressing or catch it. unfortunately a few days later he took a turn for the worst and started vomiting blood. Back to the vets, diagnosed as the dressing in his stomach. Quote for £3k to operate. Got him on the table, anaesthetised him and as he relaxed his bowel released covering the student vet and most of the surgery in the process. Canceled the op in favour of iv antibiotics and thankfully he pulled through. Turns out it wasn’t the bandage. It was a really bad upset stomach probably brought about by the antibiotics.
If I had this again I would try and avoid dressings if possible they undoubtedly made it much worse. Not trying to scare you just trying to explain why I’m against covering it in a dressing.
