When you take your dog out for a walk, you will often meet other dog walkers. Although parents can get along peacefully, dogs seem to be less friendly sometimes. Fighting, chasing and biting, and even selfless slapstick may cause trauma to dogs. However, usually the wounds are not serious, and parents can deal with and take care of the dog. Scientific care for injured dogs is very helpful for the dog’s wound healing.

How to deal with an injured dog: ●Clean the wound:

When you find that a certain part of your dog is injured or bleeding, clean the dog’s wound as soon as possible. First, you need to confirm that there is no foreign matter in the wound, rinse it with clean water and squeeze out the blood from the wound. For larger wounds, you can rinse with light salt water, which will not irritate the wound and is relatively gentle.

●Apply medicine to wounds:

After cleaning the wound, you can apply medicine to prevent inflammation and infection (such as erythromycin ointment, Yunnan Baiyao, etc.) on the dog's wound. If the hair around the wound is thick, you can cut it off appropriately to expose the wound, which will make it easier to apply medicine.

●Isolate the wound:

This is very important. Dogs will lick the wound when they have a skin injury. Isolating the wound so that it cannot be licked can help the wound heal faster. You can take some simple bandaging measures and tie the wound with gauze.

Daily care method: After completing the above tasks, one more thing you need to do is to observe the dog's wounds and the surrounding areas every day to see if there is any redness, swelling or suppuration.

The normal state of the wound is dry, and the surrounding skin pores should not be enlarged (this is often a symptom of surrounding edema). The wound gradually scabs, the scabs fall off, and new fine hairs grow. And dogs’ wounds heal very quickly, so if everything is normal, small wounds should heal quickly;

If after a few days the wound still has blood or body fluids oozing out, and there is no sign of scabbing, you should take it to the hospital to see a doctor.

Pet Guide Network reminds you: Bandaging the wound too tightly will affect blood circulation, and if it is too loose, the gauze will easily fall off. If it is a wound on the leg, you can wrap it with gauze and then put a sock on the leg; if it is a wound on the body, you can put an Elizabethan collar on the dog to prevent it from licking the wound.