Every pet owner should have a first aid kit at home for their pets:

• Sturdy Case or Pack
• Emergency Telephone Numbers
• Clean, heavy towel or thick blanket (Can be used to carry an injured animal or dry and warm a wet animal)
• Various sizes of towels (for handling the smaller animals, birds and reptiles)
• Basket Muzzle (dogs), Welding Gloves (cats)
• 3” Gauze rolls
• Gauze pads
• Adhesive medical tape
• Absorbent cotton balls and swabs
• Scissors with rounded tips
• Tweezers
• Small hemostats
• Magnifying glass (to visualize small thorns, splinters)
• Sturdy pet nail clippers
• Rectal thermometer
• Penlight/Flashlight
• Styptic powder or corn starch (can be used to stop mild persistent bleeding)
• Eyewash
• Triple antibiotic ointment
• Sterile Saline
• Sterile KY Jelly
• Betadine/Iodine
• Rubbing Alcohol
• Small bowl
• Fresh/bottled water
• Ice Pack
• Latex or Nitrile Gloves