Styptic Powder For Dogs

What Styptic Powder Does

It stops bleeding fast by constricting the blood vessels. The everyday use is a nail clipped into the quick, which bleeds far more than the injury warrants and stains everything it touches. It also covers minor cuts and dew claw tears.

What We Stock

Styptic powder

Fast acting pet powder for minor bleeding at around $35. The standard format, applied dry.

Bleeding control gel

Around $25. A gel rather than a powder, which some people find easier to apply to a wriggling dog and which stays where you put it.

How to Use It

Pour a small amount into the cap, press the nail into it and hold firm pressure for at least 30 seconds. Do not dab and check every five seconds, because you keep reopening the clot. If it is still bleeding after two applications, apply pressure with gauze and call your vet.

Avoiding the Quick in the First Place

Clip small amounts frequently rather than a lot occasionally. On light nails the quick is visible as the pink area. On dark nails, clip until you see a grey or black dot appear in the cut surface, which means you are close, and stop there.

What It Is Not For

Deep cuts, puncture wounds, or anything bleeding heavily. Styptic powder is for capillary bleeding. Anything pumping or persistent needs pressure and a vet.

Trusted by RPBA Breeders

Members keep it beside the nail clippers rather than in the cupboard, because the moment you need it you have a bleeding dog in one hand.