I usually wear gloves when skinning and deboning and processing cats but not always when fleshing and boarding, use my thumb nails to hold stuff and what not and sew. Paid the price last week, I usually get 1 or 2 pretty bad infections a year but this one takes the cake. I fleshed and boarded 23 cats Friday morning then skinned another 18 that afternoon and processed the meat and everything as well so I had my hands dirty all day in it. Woke up the next morning and it was sore. I thought I just separated the nail from the skin a little from pulling so much. Went and cleaned about 400 lbs of fish that Saturday then drank beer that afternoon so I’m sure that didn’t help either. Woke up Sat night and felt like someone was pounding on it with a hammer. Started some leftover antibiotics from the last time and salt soak. Did that for 4 days nothin working, went to the the dr yesterday and got some high powered stuff. Came home yesterday and tried to relieve some pressure and cut the nail and skin and it shot out some nasty stuff about a foot away. Instant relief. Doin better today but missed out on a fur pickup, about 50 less cats I could of put up before deadline and a bunch of miserable days tryin to work because I didn’t put a .15 cent glove on. Oh well wear your gloves young men and women even if you don’t have any cuts or anything.


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Sucker hurt under the nail like that, ughh

Been there many times during the packinghouse days. We use to heat paper clips and try and burn our way through the nail.
Stinks,don't it.
Skinned a lot over the years and never used gloves,but listening to some of the stories over the last few years, I
think it is a wise choice to glove up.

I only have use of my left hand and I always wear a glove when I skin ‘rats. I can only skin, flesh, and board about 8 an hour, but I enjoy doing it right.

I’m a fan of the yellow dish washing gloves. And hand sanitizer.

Sound wisdom

I'll bet it was from the fish.

What's the old saying, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"...? Txcoonman, I glad you thumb seems to be improving. What's the antibiotic that the doc has you on, if you care to tell. I used to be a hospital pharm tech so used to work with that sort of stuff, although there are new ones that I don't know about nowadays.

every year, for years when I got back my tax refund I would pick up a case of em'! then just chip away till they were gone! have to store them in a decent environment or they will dry rot on ya! There is always a box of latex gloves around in my old line of work! can save a finger or thumb for sure! get better soon!

I been wearing gloves close to 30 years, and a dust mask, after a season it's surprising how dirty it is on the outside

When I first started putting up my fur I thought wearing gloves was mostly a waste of money .Than we had a rabies epidemic go through our area. I was smart enough to know I was not tougher than rabies .That was 30 years ago now .But I never stopped wearing gloves since that time .I have had plenty of people laugh at me for doing it .But go back and look at the picture of his thumb . No one wants that .Safety on the trap line does not just end when we are outdoors .

Gloves also lower the incidence of coon farts.

I started myself out on Bactrim or sulfamethoxazole for 3 days then doubled up and took cephalexin as well
Doctor gave me clindamycin now

The problem was not caused from the fur or the fins. It sounds like you were suffering from too much blood in your alcohol system.
You needed to drink enough beer to match the amount of furs and fish you cleaned.

Lol

my worst bad habit in the shed.30 yrs of puttin up fur,mostly for country buyers and i still can't get comfortable wearing them.listen to these guys folks.Greg,a gentleman from up here traps down that way now,ever hear of a dewayne Torrey.just curious.

Best quote ever!!

a bowl of hot water as hot as you can stand and as much Epsom salt as you can dissolve , doesn't mater if there is some left in the bottom of the bowl that won't dissolve soak your hand 3 times a day it really drives the infection out , when I clean a bunch of fish or do some other stupid thing without gloves and my fingers start swelling this normally has me good to go in a few days.

often I just keep microwaving the same glass bowl each day till it is hot again

Porters Indian salve.

No I can’t recall the name, I meet and talk to a ton of people every year. So maybe I’ve spoke to him I just can’t remember

I was doing that but it wasn’t helping, it was all under the nail, usually when I have one that starts from a poke or a cut or something that will work, it’s helping now after I cut into it