[Music] good afternoon I'm Dr Parker staff vetar at laot and animal welfare and this is my veterinary technician Amy wendam hello uh we've been uh made aware that April is pet first aid awareness month and after practicing 30 plus years in Comanche and Stevens County thought we would go over through four of the hottest topics this time of year that you might encounter when you're outdoors with your [Music] pet the first thing we usually see is just common laceration a cut an abrasion barb wire fence slipping on the Rocks something like that uh if you have a little gauze and an elastic bandage something to put a little compression that's about all you need uh if you dog rips off a toenail you put a little gauze maybe a little blood stock powder uh if you don't have the availability of that uh corn starch or or flour works good to stop uh superficial wounds like that um it's always nice to have a pair of scissors tweezers and a pair of hemostats if you have a big laceration and you've got a squirter and you need to stop the blood uh sometimes the hemostats can stop that apply pressure put a compression bandage on it and get to your veterinarian as quick as you can uh in some instances if you don't have access to a veterinarian quick we have uh surgical adhesives which is a fancy name for superglue and you can do minor lacerations with the super glue just be sure and put on your gloves first it keeps your finger stick from sticking to your dog after you put the super glue on it so that's that's always something that's nice also a tnet if you have a bad bleeder uh a dog leash works good uh some type of elastic or rubber so works really good the other thing that we probably see in the summer times is heat stress or heat stroke and Amy's going to talk about that okay the most important thing with heat stroke is that you don't cool that your dog down too quickly it's very important that it's a gradual process to get their temperature down if you go from 105° down to 98 you're going to have some serious internal damage that goes on so basically what you want to do is start off with like a small tow you can use a large towel you want to get it in the sink with temperate water so not ice cold water not hot water and then you're going to place this on like their belly or where there's no hair then you can also use rubbing alcohol it could be 70% it can be 90% it doesn't matter just over the counter isopropyl alcohol and you can saturate the all four pads of their feet and continue to take their temperature and make sure as you're doing that you're calling your veterinarian to tell them you have a dog that overheated my dog's temp is you know 105 1045 and that way they can be getting ready for your dog cuz this is just a temporary fix to gradually lower their temperature until you get them to your vet and you can buy just an over-the-counter thermometer that works for retile you always take dogs temperatures reti the core temperature is the most important thing if somebody calls me they think they've got a dog that's heat stroking I said what's it temp you know if it's over 103 104 then we probably need to start getting it cool down you might can do that at home if it's up around 105 106 core temperature already it's going to be hard for you to get enough external cooling we probably need to see it if it gets over 108 to 9 that's when the neuronal tissue of the brain starts to cook or Den nature so we probably need to get them cooled down so uh as Amy said this on the pads of the feet there's only two spots in a dog that has sweat glands that's the tip of his nose and the pads of his feet he can't sweat he can't cool himself down that's why Amy will wet these down and provide that sweat artificially so he'll cool off get him in the shade get a breeze on them get them wetted down if you're at home or out in the field and then uh try to get them into a veterinarian clinic and they can monitor that and like Amy said there you can get kidney shut down and things like that that give fluids and steroids at a vet clinic will prevent that from [Music] occurring the other thing I see is uh people that call me and they're at Mount Scott had a picnic the dog ate a whole Hershey's chocolate bar that was on the back seat of the kids chocolate's toxic to dogs it's just one of the few things so are raisins so is a lot of the artificial sweeteners and chewing gum xylol so if you have some uh hydrogen peroxide you pour that down the dog's throat you put it in a syringe you give him a big drink it'll start to foam his stomach will expand and he'll walk out there and completely empty his stomach on the ground then you see that big old Hershey's bar or that piece of green rat bait that he ate and it's just like they never even consumed it because it wasn't absorbed at all now this only works for about an hour or so after they eat it so we got to get to it kind of quick but usually people can uh this the items we have on here are really great for a little first aid kit just keep it in the back of your car and if you have a laceration you've got a little something here if your dog eats the kids's chocolate bar you've got something here um if it heat Strokes you can kind of cool off some things and get the dog stabilized where you can get it to your [Music] veterinarian and lastly we want to talk this time of year here I know my dogs I live on a ranch I've got big dogs and they've already had some tick issues um and even if you use some of the best products around you'll find a tick that gets on your dog so Amy's going to talk about how to remove these ticks in a manner that you don't actually push the infective organisms into the dog and also if you find them on you or your kids you can take them off most of these tick transmitted diseases like Rocky Mountain spotted fever and limes disease the tick has to be in place for 24 48 hours before it can transmit the disease so quick identification and removal is how you keep that from happening so the places we tend to see ticks on um dogs and cats is inside their ears on or behind their ears between their toes um folds of their arms and legs um but you can get they can get a tick anywhere so you have if you have hemostats in your first aid kit you can always use the hemostats and you will grip it at the base of where the body meets the head and you'll kind of pull it out like like in this kind of motion or they make these fcy little tick keys that just cost a buck or two and you would slide it this way and then continue to slide it and when the tick head gets stuck in here it just brings the whole head out you don't want to use your fingers and try to rip it off cuz you will leave the head inside which which will get infected um bathing in Dawn dish soap will also help um if you're worried there's some little tiny ones that you don't see that you not be able to get off but um using topical or oral medication that works for tick is going to be the best but you might still get one that manages to ton your veterinarian will have information as far as flee and tick preventatives but we've got excellent products now that we didn't have when I started practicing that will kill the tick before it can transmit limes disease or Rocky Mount Spotted Fever to those animals so if you coordinate with your veterinarian and get on a flee and tick preventative you can keep your dog from getting sick from these even if the ticks get on them

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