Pet First Aid

First Aid for Your Pet
Our pets can suddenly become ill or injured. Some of us do panic and don't know what to do when it happens. It's important not to self-diagnose your pet's symptoms. You must first determine the situation what happened and when, and if your pet is feeling worse, better or the same since the incident occured.

Here is information about First Aid for your pet and tells you what to do when your dog or cat becomes injured or ill.

Stablize Your Pet
It is important to stablize your dog or cat's injury or illness before getting your pet to a veterinary clinic. Some simple first aid can provide a necessary and life saving treatment until medical help can be reached.

Stay Calm
You must stay calm. If you panic, so is your pet. When you are calm, you can describe the situation or the incident accurately to your veterinarian, who can then better assess your pet's condition.

Ask Help While You're Administering First Aid
While you are focus on administering your pet's injury, such as applying pressure to a wound to help stop the bleeding or evaluating the best way to carry your pet without causing further pain or injury. Ask others to call your veterinarian.

Find Our Your Pet's Temperature
Identify your dog or cat's body temperature. The normal body temperature for dogs and cats is 100 to 102.5 degrees.

Handle With Care
It is very important to restrain an injured dog or pet. It's not only for your safety but for your pet as well. Muzzle a dog unless he is unconscious, has difficulty breathing, or has a mouth injury. However, muzzles can inhibit their breathing and create additional distress.

For Example:
Broken Bones: Limping or favoring a limb
1. Muzzle your dog or use an E-collar for your cat and manipulate his head away from you while placing him in a padded carrier.
2. Got to the clinic immediately. Pelvis fractures may not be readily apparent.

Burns: Sign of burns or ingested toxin-Drooling, pawing at his mouth or swallowing excessively
1. Restrain your pet. Flush burns with cold water or apply a wash cloth cooled with ice water.
2. Take your pet to the nearest clinic within the hour or immediately if electrocution was the source of injury. Bring the chemical agent with you, if possible.

External Bleeding: Hemorrhaging
1. Restrain your pet for your safety and your pet's protection. Apply thick gauze on the wound until bleeding stops. If bleeding is severe or a limb is hemorrhaging, apply a tourniquet between the wound and the heart.
2. Go to the clinic immediatey.

Internal Bleeding: Blood in urine, coughing blood, bleeding from the nose, mouth, ears or rectum, or pale guns, collapses or has a weak or rapid pulse.
1. Keep your dog or cat warm and as quiet as possible. Find out if your pet responds when you call your pet's name.
2. Go to the clinic imeediately.

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