>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]