Grey-Save of Northwestern Pennsylvania

Basic Pet First Aid

Grey-Save is proud and pleased to be able to offer a basic pet first aid course applicable to dogs and cats. This course is sponsored and administered by the American Red Cross.

All of our instructors have been trained and certified by the American Red Cross. The course content is provided by the American Red Cross and it is designed and intended to help you cope with an emergency until you can seek proper veterinary care. The course does NOT replace the need to seek proper veterinary care for injuries.

The course is about four hours long and will include items such as how to recognize an emergency situation, how to safely approach an injured animal without becoming a victim yourself, identifying and providing care for the most common emergency situations, pet CPR, administering medication, and the basics of proper pet care.

This course is open to ALL cat and dog owners of any breed regardless of where or how your pet was obtained.

There will be a fee of $40 per person (includes the Pet First Aid book and all course required supplies). Additional family members may attend at a reduced cost (only one Pet First Aid book provided per family). The fee is intended to cover our costs for materials used and provided during the course and for the related expenses involved in bringing this course to you.

Pet first aid kits will be available for sale separately, and we do encourage you have at least one available for your pets.

We hope that you will find this course to be a valuable resource and that you will consider taking it. Although we all hope that we will never be faced with the need to deal with a potentially life threatening injury to our pets, we will all be better served if we are prepared to deal with it in advance by having the knowledge and proper materials at the ready to help the smallest members of our families.