We happened on to a couple of items that we added to our preparedness supplies, and wanted to share them with our friends here at SCP.
One of the best is a fairly inexpensive blood clotting agent call Kwik Stop Styptic Powder, that can be purchased locally at PetCo or PetSmart, or on Amazon. It is used by nearly all vets to stop bleeding when they trim an animals nails and happen to get just a bit to close to the “quick” and the nail bleeds.
If you’ve ever trimmed your dogs nails and gotten too close you know the fear when you see all that blood that just doesn’t seem to want to stop! Well, this is the answer. Just a small dab of this powder and some quiet time in their crate and it’s taken care of.
We figured that if it was safe to use for a pet that surely it couldn’t harm us. We’ve used it numerous (and I mean numerous!) times on our cuts etc., and it works just great for us also.
It also has a “numbing” agent in it so it definitely reduces the pain also which we find is great! A friend slipped during a canoeing trip and scraped the dickens out of his knees, and he’s on blood thinners.
So, we grabbed our dog’s bug out bag from our vehicle and powdered his wounds and wahlah! The bleeding was arrested. And he also admitted that it sure helped stop the pain.
The name of this product that we use is called “KwikStop” and we keep one in our medicine cabinet at home also! We need to stock more of it and will as we expand our pets medical needs.
Good idea on the Kwik Stop. I’m definitely going to look for that next time I’m in Petsense. Thanks.
We keep Kwik Stop in the goat barn and have used it when the scabs are knocked off of the young goat kids. They bleed and bleed, but a bit of Kwik Stop powder puts an end to it and a new scab forms quickly. I figure if it works for goats, it’ll work for us. And what’s the difference between that and the old-time styptic pencil men used for shaving accidents?
@Lynn…for us the difference is the “pain!” LOL We keep several styptic pencils around as preps also, but they sting like the dickens (but are much cheaper!)!!!
I have the KwikStop type stuff for clipping the dogs nails and added it to my first aid kits and my medic kit…it might sting like the dickens as @WE2 says but in a pinch it will work! and much cheaper!
I have collapsible pet bowls in the car as well as in our BOB. probably a no brainer for most pet owners…but after traveling with a pet, I found these invaluable