Bleeding Cat Care

Video Transcript

"Ace is here with me today to demonstrate how to do some first aide for bleeding that you may find on your cat. If your cat is bleeding seriously from a wound and an artery, you'll actually see lots of blood pumping out and spurting out. Definitely, you want to put pressure on that as best you can to help to stop the bleeding. If it's in the head and neck area, like this, you obviously want to make sure that the cat can still breathe, that you're not putting so much pressure on that it's having trouble breathing. If the wound is on a limb, then you can put lots of pressure on the limb, making sure that you hold the kitty's head so he can't come down and bite you. But that sort of pressure will help to staunch the bleeding. Of course, in the meantime, if you have someone who can call your veterinarian so that you can get your kitty in to be seen and have the wound repaired. Gloves are important because if you don't know the source of the bleeding, you want to make sure that you don't contaminate yourself with any infectious or contagious material."