How to Make a Pet First Aid Kit - Essential Items to Stop You Tearing Around the House Trying to Find Supplies

As you can probably tell by my title of this post, yes, I was running around the house trying to find supplies for my injured cat.

As my hubby and I were working outside, one of our cats was playing in the garden and then we heard a cat yowl and our cat came running to the door as we saw the tail end of another cat leave the yard under the fence.  First thing I thought, good job he has had all his shots!

Moo, as we call him, is very special as he was my "work in progress" cat since he was feral as a kitty.  (See his story here) He is totally the opposite now and very touchy feely and does everything to avoid conflict, so we felt he surprised another cat and the cat lashed out and created a wound on Moo's hip.

Luckily, he let us look at the wound and although I didn't see blood right away there was a gash.  We couldn't get to the Veterinarian and decided to at least do some first aid to prevent infection.  It was at this point I was running all over the house looking for supplies.

If You Have Pets, Don't Wait for an Emergency, Put Together or Purchase a Pet First Aid Kit


After gathering things and cleaning the wound, we decided it was time for a pet first aid kit.

So based on the things I needed that day, here is a basic list and you can add more to this kit as needed, but it is way easier to simply grab a bag and have everything you need in one spot.

Items You Will Need:

Little Scissors 
Tweezers 
toe nail clippers (for dogs and cats)
kwik stop for nail bleeds
bottle of eye wash - if dust or foreign stuff in their eye
gauze pads
roll of gauze - to wrap around your pet to keep gauze on wound
empty syringe 
pet muzzle
latex gloves
antiseptic safe for pets
old towel

Even if you only have a few of these items, it definitely saves running around the house.

Just keep them in a bag or a knapsack in a place you will remember.

Check out this video for additional ideas:

Moo Required an Empty Syringe, Scissors, Antiseptic and Gauze Pads

I had to run all over the house to find these things.  The drug stores will give you empty syringes, or your Vet office, luckily I had one.  They are truly handy for flushing a wound.  I used some hydrogen peroxide on the wound and then trimmed away the fur that was in the wound, then a gauze pad.

He is better now, but I decided it was time to create a first aid kit for pets, just like us humans, you never know when you will need these things.  We had a cabinet shelf with human first aid supplies, but not for our 3 cats.

You Can't Always Get to Your Veterinarian Right Away - First Aid is Essential

Sometimes you can't get to your Veterinarian right away, and if you can help comfortably inspect, sooth and comfort your pet with a bit of first aid, this will help.

If you are not a fan of getting all these supplies rounded up or would have to purchase each one, you can purchase a ready made first aid kit online with Amazon.  These hold everything you will need and can travel with you too.

It would have been much easier that day to simply grab a bag that had everything I needed, instead I ran around the house while my hubby held Moo with a dripping ugly wound.