Dear: "Help! My dog just bit me, what should I do?":

So the Quarantine is making everyone a bit stir crazy, and that "Matador" game that started out as "fun" got a bit out of hand. Fluffy bit you, you're bleeding, and now what?

Quick, grab a clean bandage or towel, wrap it around your bite, and apply pressure. If blood soaks the towel and keeps spurting after a few minutes, you're gonna need stitches. Got to the ER asap.*

If there's no gushing and the wound is fairly small and shallow, then don't panic, you can stay home. As long as you clean the wound thoroughly and right away, you will not get an infection. (And you know your dog's been updated on his shots).

Hold your wound under running warm water for at least 5 minutes. Wash it with soap if you can bare it. Better yet, if you have a clean syringe (like one of those you use to give kids liquid medicine), fill it and flush the wound properly several times. Dog mouths are dirty so the most important thing you need to do is flush the wound. Then apply neosporin, a bandage, and you're good to go, no need to panic. (Basia's been bit a bunch of times and she did this and never got infected). Good luck!

All the best,

Trouble

DISCLAIMER: I am not a real medical professional, I am just a dog with a free advice column. But you can look this up on pets.webmd.com and it will tell you the same thing.

*ER: in normal times, the ER will give you pain killers, antibiotics, flush the wound and stitch it up. They might even put you under if it's really bad. During the pandemic, a doctor client told us they are still doing that, while trying to keep normal patients separate from the corona patients.