Years back I purchased a cut kit and can honestly say that I have never used 90% of it and I do/did run rough dogs. The following has taken care of me of the years and if I couldn't handle it with the stuff listed I made the trip 10 minutes down the road to the vet.
1) Staple guns.... lots of em
2) sutures
3) vet wraps
4) plastic bags of some variety for covering sucking chest wounds
5) betadine
6) medical scissors
7) medical tape
Super Glue ( I have used it ALOT over the years)
9) Blood Stop (also used ALOT over the years)
10) Razor blades ( I keep 15-20 havalon blades in my kit)
I keep quite a few different antibiotics, dex and B12 at the house. But as far as a in the field cut/wound kit goes the above list has kept me pretty well covered over the past decade.
What is the betadine for? That kit is along the lines of what I want to put together. I still need to add a few things. My land is a 35 minute ride to the vet, and they aren’t open for emergency hours. I’ve been lucky so far, I run all rough dogs and have never had to do anything but spray some vetericyn on smaller cuts. I also don’t catch a lot of big boars though. I’m not sure why, we just normally catch smaller boars or sows.
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betadine is a skin disinfectant, if one of mine gets cut and it gets dirty I will mix betadine and warm water and scrub the wound before I sew/staple it up. Just another way to mitigate the spread of infection. Using betadine, hydrotheraphy, vetericyn and penicillin I rarely have to worry about infection in my mutts
