Treating Dogs with Dog Bites

Information on how to treat dogs with dog bites.

Treating Dogs with Dog Bites

Treating Dogs with dog bites, A great injustice is done to a great many dogs by the old saying that "dogs delight to bark and bite," for there are very many that do not delight in either, but are, to the contrary, properly behaved dogs in this respect. Some dogs do, however, but generally in self defense, or at supposed call of duty. Should your dog get bitten, wash the wound with tepid water, press out any blood, and pour a little of friar's balsam, or compound tincture of myrrh on it.

I very often get bitten accidentally by dogs at shows, or in my own kennel, in separating fights, for instance and in such cases I suck the wound and spit it out, thus abstracting any poison afterward treating for a time as follows, viz:

Apply to the wound three or four times a day Peroxyde of Hydrogen, by tipping the bottle against tie wound for a second or two, which will burn out any poison (is painless), and then wrap the wound up with a clean cotton cloth, which keep saturated with the following antiseptic:

Listerine 1 ounce

Hydrog. Bichlor % grain

Aqua 3 ounces

Instead of cauterizing a bite, which always makes a nasty looking wound, I much prefer to use the Peroxyde of Hydrogen, which will do all that cauterizing could do. Should your dog be bitten by a strange dog and any suspicion exists of so-called rabies in the strange dog, immediately cauterize the wound or use the Peroxyde of Hydrogen, and isolate the dog until the time has passed for any fear of hydrophobia developing. This advice is given to those who believe in the so-termed hydrophobia, and you are referred now to Rabies, where I give fully my own belief on this subject, as well as the ideas of other. In case there is a tear, it may be necessary to bandage <r draw together with a few stitches of silk thread.

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