Normal saline was less irritating. Zhang Zian used normal saline to disinfect Big Orange's wound, then used clean gauze to bandage the wound to prevent it from being infected by parasites. This process might touch the wound, and it was a little painful, but it didn't make a sound or move during the whole process. It was a good cat.
After he was done, Zhang Zian took a can of cat food from the shelf. He hesitated for a moment, then took two bottles and opened them in front of Big Orange.
If he wanted his wound to heal as soon as possible, the most important thing was his own resistance. If he didn't eat his fill, he wouldn't have any resistance.
Big Orange had been hungry for a few days. When he smelled the smell of the can of cat food, he was already drooling. He looked at the stray cats beside him, who were also hungry, and pushed the can of cat food to them.
The other stray cats pushed the can of cat food back.
"There's no need to push it. Everyone … No, the cats have a share," Zhang Zian said.
Big Orange then plunged his head into the can and wolfed it down. It seemed that even two bottles were not enough.
"This … Do you want to wear it?"
Zhang Zian picked up an Elizabethan necklace. He didn't know whose opinion he was asking, Vladimir or Big Orange.
"No need. I've already told it not to lick its own wounds," Vladimir said.
It had been in the pet shop for a long time, and it had heard Zhang Zian talk to customers about some common knowledge about pet health. For example, after pets were injured, they always liked to lick their own wounds. In many people's eyes, saliva could kill bacteria, and cats and dogs licking wounds could speed up the healing of wounds. In fact, this was a big mistake. Saliva did contain some antiseptic ingredients, but it contained all kinds of bacteria that could not be killed. Otherwise, if saliva was a universal antiseptic, why would there be all kinds of antibiotics?
Pets licking wounds not only did not help the wound heal, but it would also cause further infection.
It wasn't just the pets themselves. Many people were injured themselves. The wounds were very light, and they didn't care. Then they played with the cats and dogs, and the cats and dogs would instinctively lick their owner's wounds. This was not a good thing.
First, there was the problem of rabies. Some cats and dogs were sick, but they didn't attack themselves. They could infect humans through their wounds.
Even if cats and dogs did not carry rabies, their saliva contained other bacteria that were harmless to cats and dogs but harmful to humans. There were even rumors that it could cause serious infection in certain people to the extent of amputation, so they had to be guarded against.
Putting aside the fact that many dogs liked to eat poop, most cats would also lick their anus clean after poop. Their tongues had just licked the poop, and now they were going to lick their owner's wound intimately … Thinking about it, it wasn't a good thing.
When Vladimir found Big Orange in the cave on the beach, it immediately stopped it from licking its wounds and asked the other cats to bring it back to the pet shop.
Zhang Zian nodded, put down the Elizabethan collar, and continued to examine the other stray cats.
The injuries of some stray cats did not seem to be very serious, but it was often not the injury that caused the worst consequences, but the infection caused by the injury. Their physique was not as strong as Big Orange's, and their wounds were already showing signs of infection. After all, the weather was getting hotter, and parasites and bacteria were growing rapidly. Therefore, their condition was actually more dangerous than Big Orange's.
There was a calico cat, of course, a female cat. Its right hind leg had been bitten heavily. Although there was only one wound, the bite marks were very deep, and the wound had become infected and suppurated. It was limping.
The most troublesome thing was that this calico cat had fleas on its body. The fleas sucked blood, causing it to have slight anemia, and its physical fitness was not very good.
Among the dozen or so stray cats, its condition was the most dangerous.
Zhang Zian had never dealt with such a serious injury before. Logically speaking, this kind of injury should be sent to a pet hospital or a pet clinic to be dealt with by professionals.
However … professionals were likely to choose amputation for convenience. This way, the possibility of recovery was the highest, and the surgery fee was also the highest.
Zhang Zian told Vladimir about his concerns. Should he choose the more risky conservative treatment, or the more radical but safer plan of sending it to a pet hospital for amputation?
Vladimir thought about it. This was also a difficult choice for it. In the end, it gritted its teeth and said, "Conservative treatment. If a stray cat loses a leg, it will die in the wild. I believe that it can survive. Death does not belong to a Meow Meow Believer! "
Zhang Zian understood its decision. In fact, even for humans, many people would rather risk death for conservative treatment than amputate and become disabled.
For stray cats, the consequences of amputation were even more cruel.
He first had to clean the wound thoroughly, cut off the hair near the wound, and then use a knife to remove the rotten tissue.
The pain of performing surgery without anesthetics was comparable to Guan Gong scraping bones to cure poison.
He had wanted to tie the calico cat to something with a rope to prevent it from struggling during the surgery, but Vladimir said that it was not necessary. The calico cat's willpower was very strong, and it could endure it.
So he tried to cut it. The calico cat was in so much pain that its whole body twitched, but it gritted its teeth and did not make a sound. It did not move its body much.
He felt both sympathy and admiration for the calico cat. He would never be able to endure this kind of pain himself. It seemed that it was a firm Meow Meow Believer.
Whether it was a doctor or a nurse, they were all ruthless, because being soft would only cause more pain to the patient.
He did his best to use a sterilized knife and scissors to clean the rotten tissue around the wound, then repeatedly disinfect the wound with hydrogen peroxide and chlorhexidine. Then he washed the hydrogen peroxide away, wiped the wound with sterile gauze, and applied medical gel to the wound to promote the healing of the wound. Finally, he wrapped the wound with gauze.
This was not enough. Because the wound was already infected, it needed to be injected with antibiotics. However, Zhang Zian did not have the qualifications to practice medicine and did not have antibiotics. He could only wait until the day to send it to Sun Xiaomeng's pet clinic to ask her for help.
After this torment, the calico cat was in so much pain that it was about to faint. At least eight and a half of its nine lives had been lost. It was only left with one last breath, but at least it had persevered.
Zhang Zian took the spray used to remove fleas and sprayed it on all the stray cats with fleas on their bodies, including the calico cat.
The effect of the spray was very good. After ten minutes of spraying, the fleas on their bodies died one by one, and small black spots fell to the ground.
He did the same thing to the other injured stray cats. He cleaned their wounds, sterilized them, and bandaged them. Then, he rewarded them with cat food.
Each of these stray cats counted. As long as their wounds were bitten, regardless of whether they were infected or not, they would all be sent to the pet clinic to get a rabies vaccine tomorrow.
It seemed that Mr. Wallet was going to have to spend a lot of money again.
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