First Aid Kit Essentials

A well stocked pet first aid kit helps you handle unexpected injuries, minor ailments, and travel hiccups with confidence. Here are core items every pet parent should carry, at home, in the car, or on summer adventures!

Kit includes;

• Sterile saline – for flushing eyes, wounds, or debris from paws
• Non-stick wound pads – essential for covering cuts and protecting hotspots
• Cohesive bandage (vet wrap) – to secure dressings without sticking to fur
• Digital thermometer – pet safe
• Tick remover  
• Tweezers
• Blunt tip scissors – for cutting bandages or fur around wounds.
• Disposable gloves
• Chamomile dried flowers – steep and cool, can offer in small amounts rally or to water bowl for calming support, apply directly to skin for wound care or as a rinse for irritated eyes.
• Calendula dried flowers - steep and cool, use as a diluted rinse, applied directly to calm irritated skin, support wound healing, ease hot spots, and soothe minor rashes.
• Cetirizine hydrochloride 10mg tablets x 2 -Use for dogs to treat itchy skin and other allergy symptoms such as insect bites/stings (1mg per kilogram body weight). KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN

Additional items that you may want to add to your kit

• Rescue Remedy - for anxiety, travel sickness or fireworks
• Manuka honey (medical-grade) – antibacterial and soothing
• Natural Paw Balm - protect, soothe and nourish your pets paws and nose.