>Styptic pencils: these will cauterize a bleeding wound enough to get your
>fert to a vet for stitches
 
Ummm ... styptic hurts like @#$#!!!  Wouldn't this be unnecessarily
traumatic?  Wouldn't a sterile gause pad and light pressure be sufficient
to stop bleeding from wounds?
 
I won't use styptic on my animals anymore after I applied it to a nick I got
from shaving my legs. Ouch! For bleeding nails, I use cornstarch, but my vet
recently said a bar of soap (the innocuous kind like Ivory) works just fine
and isn't as messy.
 
--Barb--
[Posted in FML issue 2309]