How to Treat a Cat that is Bleeding

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Hi, this is Dr. Greg McDonald, and we are coming to you from Expert Village.com. We are talking about cats and first aid in cats. One of the things that is pretty common for people as well as cats and dogs is to start bleeding. They can bleed for all different kinds of reasons such as cuts, fractures, things like that, and it is very important to administer first aid in those circumstances. If your cat is losing a lot of blood, obviously you are going to need to get them to the veterinarian, but the things that you can do before you get to the veterinarian are very important. There are basically two types of bleeding that we see. The venus bleeding is kind of just oozing, slow blood that is coming out of your cat, and cats are never going to bleed to death from a slow bleeding oozing thing when the blood pressure gets low and an animal clots it is not going to be a problem. So even though it is important to stop the bleeding with pressure, and you can use any kind of cloth or something like that, even a wash rag would work well, wrap it up and put some pressure right over the area. The ones that we are more worried about that need immediate care from you and the veterinarian is the arterial bleeding, and if your cat gets a cut that is so bad that you see blood pumping out, which means that an artery has been cut, and you need to put pressure on that. Direct pressure even from your hand is okay. You know you don’t want to get your cat contaminated, but on the other hand, you are not going to have any animal to work with if you don’t stop the bleeding right away, so let your veterinary worry about any infections that are happening later. You’ve got to stop the bleeding right away.

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