Animal first aid
Do you think we ought to brush up on first aid for our pets - or do you think we are able to transfer human first aid for simple matters and rely on our vets for anything more serious?
I ask because we had an accident over the weekend!
I was making myself boiled eggs for lunch on Saturday. Quite looking forward to it as they were ultra fresh eggs from the Friday market. So, I took great care over the preparation, made my toast soldiers ready and timed it to perfection. Went to take the pan off the heat, just as Dinah came for a scavenge round the bases of the kitchen units (blame her 'mum' for not training that bad habit out of her; I really should
) Stupidly, I had let too much heat get to the pan handle and didn't use a cloth. So, I picked up the pan and put it back down again pdq. The water sloshed, some but by no means all, slopped onto Dinah, who yelped and scuttled to her bed. Feeling sooooooo bad, I soaked a tea towel in cold water and rubbed it on and then left it on the area round her collar/ears, which appeared splashed.
Thank goodness, all was well. She is fine, no blisters, no nothing.
My eggs were hard by the time I returned to them
Can you think of any emergency areas in which you'd treat a pet differently from a human?