Use this easy method for keeping casts clean and dry

At our clinic we regularly have clients who don't know what to do with their casted pet during rainy or snowy weather. So we've started using fluid bags to protect casted legs. Instead of ripping a fluid bag out of its covering, we carefully clip the top so that the covering can be used as a "sock" for the cast. Then whenever a client is walking a pet, he or she can just slide the fluid bag covering over the cast. And our patients come in with dry wraps and casts.

Jeanette L. Dennis, RVT, VDT

Animal Care Central; Sapulpa, Okla.