A word of caution whether you are using gloves or not.
Clean your hands after cleaning that animal.
Wash with an alcohol disinfectant or even better, hydrogen peroxide.
I keep a bottle of H2O2 in the truck for skunks and gutting.
Rinsing off with this will help disinfect and clean out all the blood from skin creases fingernails...
ANY cut can be the route for staf or strep infection, which can be deadly.
Of particular concern is cutting yourself while wearing tight gloves.
The body bleeds when cut, in part on purpose as a way to expel pathogens.
These gloves actually inhibit bleeding through pressure, which can INCREASE the likelihood of retaining pathogens in the wound and subsequent infection.
If you cut yourself while wearing gloves, even a small nick, take them off immediately and let that cut bleed for a while, disinfect the wound.
Pay attention to the cut in the following days.
Do NOT presume that because you are wearing a glove that you're safe from contracting a disease or infection.
__________________
Alberta Fish and Wildlife Outdoor Recreation Policy -
"to identify very rare, scarce or special forms of fish and wildlife outdoor recreation opportunities and to ensure that access to these opportunities continues to be available to all Albertans."
|