Biweekly Topic Challenge: First-Aid [Completed]

Question

The current topic for the Pets: Biweekly Topic Challenge is the suggestion for the First-Aid tag.

For the next two weeks (until February 9, 2015) you are challenged to ask or answer as many questions as you can using the first-aid tag.

The tag wiki:

Refers to a situation requiring application of initial treatment in case of an accident such as how to stop profuse bleeding. Not for real-time questions.

First-aid is the initial treatment received in case of an accident. This tag will be used for situations regarding application of first aid, such as how to stop profuse bleeding. This tag is not for real-time questions requiring real-time answers. Do not expect immediate answers.

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At the end of the challenge the results will be tallied into an answer below this post. Have fun!

Answer 1

During the two weeks of the challenge we received 6 questions about first-aid.

The total voting score the questions received was 19 for an average voting score of 2.7 per question.

There were 6 answers for an average of 1 answer per question.

The questions asked were:

• What is the appropriate first aid for a cat nosebleed?

• Why is my rat drooling and opening its mouth? Is it choking?

• What should I do if I catch my cat eating a poisonous plant?

• My rats had a fight and one of them is injured - what can I do for him?

• What should be in a leopard gecko first aid kit?

• My leopard gecko's tail fell off! What should I do?

These questions were asked by these users (in no specific order):

And answered by these users (in no specific order):

Tags that were used in conjunction with the first-aid tag were:
catsupper-respiratory-diseaseratpoisoninjuryreptileslizardsleopard-geckosautotomy