Hog dog field surgery (Tips and tricks)

Funny you brought up the bleach water remedy. We were pre mixing a bottle of solution the other day for our kit. A friends wife works at a nursing home as a wound specialist, and that was a tip we picked up from her. Works really good.

Duct tape is a good item to secure a thrashing dog or immobilize it while you work on them. Had one get gutted last year and had to use saline to flush the body cavity out and wash the intestinal tract off. You can use a good sharp pocket knife or scaple to enlarge the punctured hole if its not large enough to put them back in without damaging them or creating any kinks. After you replace the intestines back into the body cavity place a couple staples into the outer stomach lining. Follow up with just a few on the outside skin to reinforce the innerwall. You will have to go back in after a day or so to take out the ones in the stomach lining unless you use dissolving stitches. But it works great and will keep till you get to vet or save yourself the money.

You can also cut the finger tips out of rubber gloves to utilize as a stiched in drain chutes for odd location cuts that will not drain properly.