When your dog starts to bruise or bleed
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?