Things learned today

[den]

Truck drivers can be bastards.

Stress gives me a mild stomach ache and makes me drink far too much coffee.

Small cuts on Echidna noses bleed out of proportion to the size of the cut.

When a zoovet says "You caught me on the run" they aren't speaking figuratively.

Comments

[chriswheeler.livejournal.com]

Echidna? You have a new boarder?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Just an over-nighter. Zoovet let her go this afternoon.

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

Stressy stomach is easily taken care of by a daily dose of Zantac, if it's available over the counter there. It's how I deal with it.

[siouxsyn.livejournal.com]

I've heard that putting cornflour on cuts makes them stop bleeding. Actually, I believe that advice was for claws clipped too short, but it sounds adaptable.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how that would go. Echidna noses are so wet and dribbely at the best of times.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

That makes sense, there's this new instant clotting spray on the market, the principle ingredients of which are starch and cellulose, in micro-fine particulate size.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

it would only need to be temporary, just long to stop the bleeding.
So, dust the middle section of some micro-pore tape [or duct tape I guess] and apply it like a band-aid. Sticky ends to either side of the wet and drippy nose.

Works with small dogs anyway, if you can keep them from ripping it off immediately.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

This is echidnas we're talking about. Scientists aren't even sure how to sort out the X and Y chromasomes in them.