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Nail Clipping mmishap

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Bad bad day yesterday. My rabbit McQueen's nail where getting far too long to a point where she would scratch by just putting her paw on my hand so i bot some bunny nail clippers. and yes i guess you could guess what happened, i cut a nail too short and it bleed very badly. I calmed her down and and washed the paw in warm salt water and she seems ok, playing around like normal I'm just wondering if there is something i should do for her? and how do i avoid possible infection?
 
I cut of half of Zakura's claw once and she was fine:lol:
I poured cold water over the paw to try and stop the bleeding, and later put her in a transport box on a towel until it stopped.
I also used the transport box when Sasuke's mother started breeding (those two are notoriously hard to clip the nails of:roll: )
 
I did the same yesterday too. He keep flicking his feet and sprayed blood everywhere :roll: It stopped pretty fast though. I put a splodge of corn flour on then squeezed his paw til it stopped :) It will heal fine don't worry :)
 
Its a good idea to keep corn flour, antibacterial veterinary powder or styptic powder in your first aid kit for nail cutting accidents....it clots the quick pretty quickly.
 
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