#pet first aid

[adrianicsea]

mildly off brand post for me but last night i learned that the american red cross offers an online training course on first aid/CPR techniques for cats and dogs for $25 USD. it’s COMPLETELY self contained to an online module, takes 1-2 hours depending on your reading speed, and will give you a two-year pet first aid certification.

it can be really scary when your pets are sick or injured, and for me personally, taking this class made me feel more secure and confident that i’ll know what to do in the event of a pet emergency! it teaches how to easily check your pet’s vital signs, how to administer cpr on cats and all different sizes of dogs, how to perform a canine/feline Heimlich maneuver, and how to administer basic first aid to several different types of injuries.

i’m not sponsored or anything but we all love our pets and i had NO idea this resource existed until last night so i wanted to share!!! 👍🏻

#pets #pet first aid

[preppers-will]

#survival #prepping #preparedness #pet first aid #dogs #camping with dogs

[triangle-dog]

From Trap Safety for Pet Owners a flyer by The Alaska Dept of Fish & Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation and the Alaska Trappers Association. All drawings are by Sarah DeGennaro, copyright ADF&G. Download link in source.

These are just the graphics, there is more information on the traps and guidance in the pamphlet itself.

#animal injury cw #pet safety #pet first aid #emergency preparedness #dogs #found this PDF by accident and thought others might find these useful #we don't tend to hike in trapping areas so I've never looked it up #I would not have thought of using a leash as a pulley for the conibear

[hotmonkeelove]

FYI

My dog has had several seizures over the past day (and one we thought was an airway obstruction on the 22nd), and it might be the result of starting monthly Simpairica on the 15th. Now I'm watching him like a hawk (he's resting with his butt against me atm...), and he's going to the vet for tests and to get on seizure medication. This has all left me pretty frazzled. The point is, be careful about giving your dog Simpairica. It's probably fine for some dogs, but it is linked to seizures, even in dogs who have never had any before. Read up on seizures in dogs and be safe and prepared. During a seizure, protect them from anything they might bang into. Stay clear of their mouths, as they can't control their jaw muscles and might bite. Don't worry, they won't swallow their tongues, that's a myth. And contact your vet asap. A seizure lasting more than five minutes is when you should rush your dog to an emergency veterinary clinic.

#dogs #seizures #pet first aid #be prepared

[petcareinsiders]

As a pet owner and animal lover, I'm happy to share this pet first aid guide I recently wrote. It covers some common pet emergencies, building your own first pet aid kit, and administering basic first aid techniques.

I draw from my personal experience with our dog, Mickey, in this guide. I hope you find the information as helpful as I aimed to make it.

As pet parents, being prepared to care for our fur babies is all part of the responsibility and privilege. Let's keep our companions happy and healthy!

Pet First Aid Essentials: A Comprehensive Guide for Every Pet Owner - (petcareinsiders.com)

#Pet First Aid #Pet Health #Pet Safety #pet care #first aid #pets #dogs

[mariekavanagh]

How do you give CPR to a cat? Also, is the lego set of Hedwig worth it? It looks so cute in pictures

This video is the most concise and easy to understand example of a cat CPR technique that I can find.

Feline CPR differs from human and canine in that we apply compressions to the heart using a one-handed technique rather than the locked palms and elbows technique that we use on humans and dogs. This greatly lowers the risk of damaging the ribs or other areas by applying too much force during compressions.

For comparison, here's an example of CPR on a dog.

All pets owners should have a basic understanding of pet CPR, in my opinion.

Also the Hedwig Lego set is great! Very intricate in that you can actually make the wings flap. I'll post a proper photo once I've finished it :)

#cats #life with cats #cat CPR #cat first aid #pet first aid #asks #anon

[talkytails]

Pet First Aid | Items To Have In Pets First-Aid Kit

Even if you already have a Pet First Aid, now might be a good time to make sure the supplies haven’t expired or run out. You never know what’ll happen when it comes to accidents and emergencies, so it’s good to be prepared. When you’re camping, driving across the country, or facing a natural disaster, you need to be ready. Always be sure to familiarize yourself with pet emergency clinics in your area (and anywhere you frequently travel), and identify apps or websites you can consult in case of an emergency. 

To know what Essential Items To Have In Pets First-Aid Kit. Read our Blog!

#Pet First Aid #Pet First Aid Kit

[mr-miss-anonymous]

The shift from G1 First Aid to IDW First Aid is like… I dunno, it’s like seeing a cute animal and then getting your fingers nearly bitten off by said animal, or finding a bug that looks cute but ends up having scary fangs/mandibles and can fly, like, really really fast.

G1 First Aid wears a mask because he’s far too cute not to.

IDW First Aid wears a mask for the same reason, but also wears one because without it, he’d probably bite too many people and have to be escorted off of the Lost Light.

#IDW aid is like that video where the old lady is like ‘oh cute cat can I pet him?’ or something #and the owner’s like oh no. ohhh no #first aid #idw first aid #first aid g1

[museofthepyre]

your art really fits your appearance... are you the real life sydney sargent? i'd be freaking out if you were sydney sargent ahh

Well, yes.

I could explain my multi-year spanning selfhood/ ID situation in depth… buuuut we would be here for hours. Short answer for all intents and purposes is: yes.

#fictionkin is… a word. not sure it fully describes my experience. #it’s worse/ more extreme than that (save me let me out) #even outside of that though #I am a GNC trans man. long dark hair with light blue eyes. Autistic. BPD. ARFID (safe food is… buttered bread.) chronically ill AND #psychosis and hallucinations (I am on meds for it 💪 look at me go) #deathly pale and inescapably sick #and has motherly issues. I spend most of my time in the forest. I was a warrior cats kid. I’m goth by music taste and wear dark everything. #I prefer skirts and dresses for sensory reasons. dark and earthy tones. #I talk too much and overshare (exhibit a: this) #my SPECIAL INTEREST has been decomposition and dead things for YEARS #so I adore worms and mushrooms and everything which will one day help me return to the earth #I had a few pet worms & isopods before CHNT even released. I love. worms. #however I don’t do first aid now. I’ve devolved to mortuary science/ post-mortem preservation. #as you can imagine… discovering CHNT was horrifying for these reasons. #as once again- everything I listed here has been the case long before I ever found CHNT. #also I seem to only have chemistry with morally dubious men send tweet #oh and also vivid memories yk that too that’s kinda important yk #guys I’m afraid to post this.

[peggingprowl]

Sleepy cockwarming,,,,,, just cozy resting with their spike in your mouth. Comfortable weight in your mouth. maybe they pet your head. Very nice

#cookie talks #valveplug #im. tired rn if u cant tell lol #anyway please please please please let my suck First Aid's cock as he pets me im begging #OR HIS FINGERS HNGGG

[sixbucks]

If you’re cold you know what to do, motherfuckers.

Also, here’s some emergency info.

#pets #hypothermia #animal first aid #cold weather #if you’re cold they’re cold #WTF ARE YOUR PETS DOING OUTSIDE??? #take them to the vet

[fearowkenya]

#im redoing my pet first-aid class and one assignment asks us to take a stuffed animal and demonstrate how to bandage various wounds #mattie chatters

[another-whump-sideblog]

Jane’s Pets Pt. 27: 911, What’s Your Emergency?

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It’s familiar, having Dollie help you manage the wounds all over your body. It reminds you a lot of after your punishment for running away.

It’s different in a lot of ways, too. Kit isn’t avoiding you this time, and you can walk on your own, even if it hurts. You need help with a lot of things you wouldn’t normally need help with, especially with your broken fingers, but it’s not so bad with Kit and Dollie helping.

Dollie has started to take you on daily walks. Kit joins sometimes. The fresh air is nice, and you really missed the sun after so much time in the basement. It doesn’t even occur to you to run. You can get out of this, but that has to be through getting rid of Jane’s powers or killing her. Running won’t help.

Your body heals. You eat fresh, human food. You sleep in a bed. Jane makes threats and does things to make you uncomfortable, but at least you have Kit and Dollie again.

At first, you were too exhausted to have nightmares. You’d pass out the instant your head touched the pillow and sleep until someone managed to wake you up. But it was too good to last, and you’re back to waking up screaming at least once a night. Kit and Dollie comfort you through it.

You wish they’d let you take care of them the same way. Maybe eventually. Maybe when you’re strong enough to take punishment for them.

The more you heal, the more apparent it becomes that something’s wrong. Your wounds turn to scars and your bones mend, but you still have near constant headaches. You get dizzy out of nowhere, sometimes spending whole days in bed because walking makes you motion sick. Your ears ring in response to any loud noises.

It’s not a concussion. That would be healed by now. There’s something really wrong, something more wrong than normal.

Kit and Dollie help the best they can, but you’ve run out of ibuprofen and there’s only so much ice packs can do.

Through all of it, though, you’ve started to develop a plan. It’s frustratingly difficult, but eventually you have a plan that might work. Not a plan to escape, but a plan to inconvenience Jane. At the very least, it will help you figure out more about Jane’s powers.

You don’t tell the others about your plan. There’s always risk of Jane listening. So, when you tell Jane that you want to play the escape game, everyone is equally shocked.

“Bunny, you’ll get hurt.” Kit pleads.

“I know.”

They pause. “You really want to do this?”

You nod. Kit looks to Jane.

“Why don’t we make it more fun, then? Bunny gets 24 hours to run, like normal, but after that, you only get 24 hours to find him. If you can’t within the 24 hours, you leave him alone.” They’re clearly trying to look confident, but you can tell they’re nervous.

Jane hums thoughtfully. “I guess it’s more fun if there’s some actual challenge… Okay. Does that sound good to you, Bunny? Do you understand the rules? You know that, when I bring you back, you’ll still be punished for the escape attempt?”

“Yes, master.”

“Alright. Your time starts now.”

It takes it a second to sink in. You’re starting now.

You sprint out of the house. You have a lot to get done in 24 hours.

Getting to somewhere with people will be the hardest part, but you know it’s possible. Dollie buys the groceries and there’s no car, so there’s somewhere within walking distance with people. You head in the direction you see Dollie always go when she goes shopping and hope you’ll get to civilization quickly enough.

Jane said dealing with worried neighbors is inconvenient, and Kit says Jane can’t create things with her powers, only move them.

She must’ve put a bunch of effort into the house, if that’s the case. You doubt there’s any legal knowledge she’s out here, but there’s still water and electricity. The basement is a complex labyrinth and none of the doors in the house lock from the inside. If Kit is right, it must’ve taken a lot of effort to get that place set up. So if you could ruin this place for her, force her to start from scratch…

It’s not a perfect plan. Not even close. But you need something, some sort of win, even if it means you’ll get hurt. Your head hurts, but you keep running. You trip and get hurt over and over, but you keep running.

—

You were right, you were right! You stop, staring at the small town, before falling over.

Your head hurts and you’re dizzy, but you pull yourself back to your feet. You only have 24 hours. Less, now.

You run to the nearest house and pound on the door. The person who opens it seems annoyed at first, but that quickly gives way to concern. You must look pretty bad.

“I need! I need…” The world keels to the side. There was something important you were going to ask for, why can’t you remember?

The person at the door catches you before you fall. “Should I call an ambulance?“ they ask urgently.

“No!” That’ll just waste time. Wait, you’re not supposed to say no, you’ll get in trouble.

No, you’re in a town, you had a plan, you’re not in trouble yet. “Can I- can I borrow your phone?”

The stranger nods and hands you a phone. You shakily dial 911.

“911, what’s your emergency?”

“There’s- there’s this girl-“ You had a whole plan of what to say that they’d believe. Why can’t you remember it?

“I was kidnapped! I just managed to escape, but there are other people there still. Please, she’s dangerous, she has… weapons. Bad weapons. She’s planning to uh, to do something really bad, she has a bomb, she’s really dangerous and you need to bring. A lot of people. Please.”

There’s no doubt in your mind that Jane will manage to handle it, somehow. You’ll still be in her captivity in 48 hours. But she won’t have her fucking torture basement anymore. She’ll have to find somewhere new.

The operator asks where you are and you don’t know. You look to the stranger.

“Where am I?”

They give you the address, which you repeat to the operator. “It’s, it’s in the woods next to this house, to the…” you point to the woods helplessly. You’ve never been good with directions and right now your brain is fried.

“East.” The stranger supplies.

“East! It’s in the woods to the east of the address I gave you. Please hurry.”

The operator promises to do the best they can and asks if you’re okay to end the call.

“…yeah. Just hurry.”

The operator tells you help is on the way and ends the call.

You hand the phone back to the stranger. “Thank you. Do you have some bandages?”

—

The stranger let you into their house, which you weren’t expecting. You sit in one of their chairs and carefully bandage cuts you obtained in your wild run out of the woods. You… haven’t applied bandages to yourself, before. It’s harder than you expected. You also apparently need some level of balance to do well at applying bandages, because the dizziness makes it very difficult.

Your bandages come out extremely sloppy, but they’ll work for now.

You thank the stranger again and start to leave. They seem worried, but you brush them off and start running again.

You can’t waste the opportunity Kit gave you. You need to get as far away as you can. You still think she’ll find you, but you want to make it as hard as possible.

After a few minutes of running, you realize that you are not going to be able to run for 24 hours straight. You need a vehicle. You briefly consider stealing a car, but that would make you easier to find. You find the road that leads into the town, and then follow it until you spot someone driving in the direction away from Jane, and wave them down.

“Where are you headed?” The stranger asks.

“I… away? I just need to get as far away as possible. Not because I’m running from the law or anything.”

This does not make the stranger less suspicious. “Why do you need to get away, then?”

“I just… I only just escaped. From a place where I was getting tortured. Um, look.”

You roll up the sleeve of your left arm, revealing a bunch of nasty looking scars, including your brand. The stranger’s eyes widen.

“I called the police, but I still want to get as far away as possible. It’s kind of in the middle of nowhere, where I was being held, and I’m worried she’ll hunt me down and kill me before the police find her. Please.”

“Shouldn’t you be… with the police, if you want to be protected?”

“She’ll find me if I stay in one place, I need to move.”

The stranger sighs. “I guess I can give you a ride. I’m headed quite a ways away. I don’t really believe you, but it’s clear something’s happened.” They stare at your arm. “You want to ride shotgun?”

—

There’s a clock in the stranger’s car. You haven’t seen a clock in quite a while. You watch the minutes tick away and wonder how much time you have left.

The stranger repeatedly tries to start conversation with you, but you only give one word answers.

As your dizziness and headache fade a bit, you start to get suspicious. This person had no reason to help you, and in fact, shouldn’t have. You were acting extremely suspicious. Are they just going to bring you to another torture basement? Are they pretending to rescue you because that will make torturing you later funny?

It’s funny, the worst case scenario isn’t any worse than what you’re running from. They might as well torture you. It won’t be a huge change in the status quo.

Well, you wouldn’t have Kit and Dollie. That would suck. But Jane would probably find you anyway.

Hours pass before the stranger stops at a gas station.

“This is as far as I can take you. Are you going to be okay?”

You nod and hop out of the car. You’ll use the gas station bathroom and then come up with a better story for when you try to hitchhike again.

The sky is getting darker. You’re running out of time.

After you finish using the bathroom, you walk along the main road again. You want to get a ways away from the gas station before trying again. You’re… not sure why. It just seems right. Maybe you just need to stretch your legs.

A wave of dizziness overtakes you, and suddenly you’re on the ground and your wrist hurts in a very familiar way that brings tears to your eyes instantly.

She hasn’t broken your wrist, before, but you’ve gotten very familiar with the feeling of broken bones, and you know that’s what’s happened. You look around for a stick, and use one of the bandages you applied earlier to tie it to your wrist in what’s hopefully a good position. You scream as you adjust your wrist into place, almost falling over again. Your whole arm hurts. You try to ignore how gross reusing a bandage is.

The dizziness is starting to make even standing dangerous. Your body is working against you.

On the bright side, your makeshift splint will make people more likely to take pity on you and help you get away.

A/N: Let me know if I should tag anything else! Also, let me know if you want me to write something from the perspective of the strangers that help Liam in this chapter. I won’t be able to get to it until after whumptober, but I’m curious if anyone would be interested.

Tag list: @eatyourdamnpears @ghostsinthecloset

#whumptober2022 #no. 11 #911 what’s your emergency? #sloppy bandages #self done first aid #makeshift splint #oc #original content #fic #disscussion of torture tw #broken bones tw #whump #whump writing #whumpblr #nonhuman whumper #multiple whumpees #pet whump #whumpee #whumper #caretaker #2nd person pov #jane’s pets #I cackle every time I read ‘Not because I’m running from the law or anything.’ #I think I’m funny

[petdogs]

How do you handle a medical emergency with your dog?

It's a sad reality that dogs and people alike occasionally need medical attention. Your pet needs to see a vet right away if they become ill or are involved in an accident. If you follow these guidelines, your dog might not be in any imminent danger until he gets professional care. Read More...

#Dog First Aid Procedures Every Owner Should Know #How do you handle dog emergencies? #Dogs #How do you handle a dog in an emergency? #Dog First Aid Guide #dog #animal #pets

[bamm05]

Essential Dog First Aid Tips for Pet Owners

Knowing basic first aid for dogs is crucial for pet owners. While it’s not a substitute for veterinary care, having some knowledge and being prepared can save your pet’s life in an emergency. Make sure you have a well-stocked dog first aid kit at home and when traveling. Keep the phone numbers of your veterinarian and a 24-hour emergency veterinary hospital handy. Key Takeaways: Being prepared…

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#animal welfare #basic medical care #canine health #dog care #emergency preparedness #first aid #pet health #pet ownership #pet safety #veterinary care

[theskeletoninthegarden]

I'm going to write a science fiction series from the point of view of an alien and humans are going to show up but instead of being known for their horrible, war like ways they'll be known for 1) their tendency to try to live in places they Should Not and yet still somehow surviving, and 2) their universal goal of helping in the resuscitation of species made at risk due to unnatural causes.

#personal #at its core its because of their own history #ie our history #of driving species to extinction and harming our own world etc etc #and humankind falling onto their instincts of preservation and the protection of creatures #free thinking or otherwise #that are in need of aid #at first it may have started as making up for iur own damage intended or otherwise #but it turns out its just something we're naturally fantastic at doing #our haridness and stubborness as a species makes us fit to enter environments and thrive in ways other alien species cannot #making it possible to use our adaptability to help others get a second chance #idk i just like the idea that humans were made to pet other creatures #to lend a hand in general #and im tired of the assumption that humans are naturally savage beasts only interested in hurting others and hurting ourselves #i may have watched a video of humans helping a penguin while in the artic and it made me happy