How to Bandage a Cat It is practically impossible to bandage as it must any of the extremities of a cat if he is not still. If the animal turns around by himself try to prevent it, because it will cause him more harm. Do not try, then, to bind the feline up by yourself. If you must immobilize one of his members, put him a small t-shirt so that it wraps the trunk and the affected extremity at the same time. Stockings, leotards, or panties could be also effective.How to bandage a front leg. - Cut both sides of one of the legs of the leotard or panties and wrap it up to the body of the cat.
- Secure with sticky plaster ends to the body and make a hole to pull out the healthy leg.
How to bind up a back leg. Cut one of the legs of a pantie and wrap the cat up beginning from the haunches. Secure with sticky plaster to the chest of the cat the open end of this improvidently control. Make a hole by which to remove the healthy leg. If the bone is at sight, apply a clean external medicinal application on it before to proceeding to bind it up. Do not grease with any pomade. After a traumatic injury you must look for any symptom of shock, potentially lethal for the cat. The treatment of shock has priority over the binding of any bone. How to Make a Tourniquet: Tourniquets are dangerous; the remedy can be worse than the sickness. Cats do not bleed by the breakage of the blood vessels of their extremities. Instead of making a turnstile, press the wound until the blood stops flowing. If you suspect that he has suffered the bite of a poisonous serpent, immobilize the feline and use ice bags, instead of a turnstile to avoid the poison to spread throughout the whole body. Only use turnstiles when the hemorrhage is so abundant that it cannot be stopped by any other way. Neither try to learn this technique by practicing with your cat since he is quite in pain and disagreeable. - Put a fabric piece (a necktie, a soft belt, a sheet strip or a bandage) around the bleeding wound and tie it with a naked.
- Introduce under the fabric a pencil, a ball-point pen, a stick or another solid and thin object, and turn it to tighten the bandage until hemorrhage stops.
- Tie an end of the pencil with another fabric piece, so that the bandage stays firm and tense. Request help from the veterinarian immediately.
A bind up well positioned cuts blood irrigation. If you let it too much time, it can produce the "death" of the member. |
