Other reasons for bruising or bleeding in dogs are due to clotting disorders, platelets, or the blood vessels. These disorders can affect your dog regardless of his/her age or breed. In fact bruising or bleeding can be due to a number of illnesses or disorders. These can be mild and take the form of tiny bruises or prove severe enough to prove life threatening.
The golden rule here is never to ignore unexplained or abnormal bruising or bleeding. Try to get an early examination by a good vet and especially so if your pet is abnormally pale, lethargic, weak, or in pain.
Getting the right diagnosis is half the battle won. It is also important to evaluate abnormal bleeding through the diagnosis of the kind of clotting abnormality- after identifying the core causes.
It may take a while before you notice the symptoms of anemia that are directly caused by tissue destruction or chronic bleeding due to a very deep wound. Internal bleeding due to parasites or gastro-intestinal bleeding can also cause anemia. Non-regenerative anemia occurs when the bone marrow cannot restore red blood cells fast enough.
Springers, Spaniels or Basenjis are often diagnosed with this disorder.
When your best friend starts to bruise or bleed without warning what can you do? First and foremost you should never neglect it. Moreover you should aim for an early examination by a vet for any abnormal or unexplained bleeding.
Read on for some practical guidelines on the early diagnosis and treatment of some of the most common hereditary and nonhereditary bleeding disorders in dogs and cats as well as the not so common ones -that are included in this book.
Hereditary and non-hereditary bleeding disorders
If your dog tends to bleed excessively from wounds or suffers from repeated spur-of-the-moment bleeding, it is usually due to hereditary bleeding disorders.
Von Willebrand’s disease and Hemophilia are the most common hereditary bleeding disorders that effect dogs while hemophilia is a hereditary bleeding disorder that affects cats.
During the normal course of a day, non-hereditary bleeding and bruising can occur due to the normal stresses and strains of life and play, in purebred as well as mixed breeds. And that is all a part of life. But what if it turns out that the bleeding and bruising indicates a deeper underlying cause?
In most cases of traumatic injury the blood will eventually clot, but a pet with a clotting disorder can continue to bleed. Before going into timely and appropriate first aid and self-help tips for bleeding and bruising, let us first look at the main cause of bruising and bleeding in dogs and other pets, namely, blood disorders.
As a dog owner, you need to be well aware of the possible and sometimes lethal blood disorders that can cause bruising and bleeding in your dog or other pets. Since the blood’s most important job is to supply oxygen and nutrients to the body- while removing waste matter—blood plays a key role in the ongoing health of your pet, including the repair of tissue and as protection against infections.
Bruising and bleeding in dogs is also caused by-
- Blood disorders like clotting problems
- Blood-related cancers
- Poisoning
- A low platelet red cell or white-cell count
“Cat’s Motto: No matter what you’ve done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.”
Anyone who has owned a dog or any other pet, knows about the many antics they can get up to while chasing a ball or other dogs, especially during the mating season. All these activities can lead to plenty of injuries. The worst-case scenario would be from a road accident or due to lethal bites received after fighting with other dogs. Lesser injuries can be due to sniffing unsafe materials, running through dangerous territory and walking over or eating harmful objects.
It can be quite scary when a beloved pet suddenly starts to unexplainably bleed or bruise.
But don’t panic—the next few pages of this blog will explain emergency first aid measures, and vital self-help tips that can stop normal bleeding and bruising, as well as guide you on how to make a proper diagnosis and give the right treatment in more severe cases.
More often than not, when it comes to blood disorders, being forewarned is being forearmed. You can hope for the best and be prepared for the worst.
This blog will make you aware of the probable blood disorders that could be affecting your dog or pet’s health RIGHT NOW!!! without your even being aware of it. In the next few pages you will also learn the type of dog most likely to get a particular type of bleeding disorder and the best thing you can do about it.
Timely and appropriate action will mean that your canine friend can live a whole lot longer, than if the disorder was left untreated. Many blood disorders can be controlled if not cured by blood transfusions.
Read on to also discover all the possible hereditary as well as non-hereditary blood disorders your dog can suffer from; and the best thing you can do about it. Here is everything you need to know about both common as well as rare blood disorders in dogs with self-help tips on how best to protect them. Information that could make all the difference between your pet’s long and fulfilled life, or the very opposite.
If you are looking for some vital self-help and do-it-yourself tips, you will find plenty of them in the next few pages.