Help - Dried Blood All Over Sam

[Guest sheila]

I agree that checking the nose is a place to look at. Once upon a time I started coming home to mysterious blood spots on dog beds and furniture. I also checked both dogs over and over and could not find a source. About a month after this started my Natasha suffered a major seizure in the middle of the night. She suffered another one a few hrs later and with both of the seizures she began bleeding through her nose. It wasn't copious amounts, but a steady drip.

[djsgreys]

Thanks for all the advice and good wishes. I checked everyone out everywhere last night and could not find anything on anyone. Not even little tiny scabs. I swabbed everyone's noses with damp q-tips, then went over their gums - especially around the back teeth - nothing. And I swabbed everyone's muzzle - nothing there either.

 

I know it wasn't a creature brought in from outside because the blood on Sam was really dry and he can't get out when I'm not home. No baby bunnies here to worry about - for some reason they stay completely away from my turn out area. There was no real splatter - as I cleaned up I found a couple of drops of blood on the kitchen floor but nothing on walls.

 

So I was still worried and banished DH to another room so Sam could sleep with me. Not a peep out of him all night but when we got up this morning - two small blood stains on my comforter and one on Sam's face. I have looked and looked at his gums and teeth and now think perhaps only two possibilities left - either he has cut his tongues - can't see anything but thinking this is a strong strong possibility. Or for some reason he is throwing up blood.

 

All clear when I got home tonight from work. Sam acts like nothing ever happened except he is a little PO'ed at me for leaving him separated from the others today. Still going to take him in though and get it checked - make sure it is not some kind of internal bleed that he is coughing up.

[Guest Energy11]

Yes, better safe than sorry! How do his gums look tonight?

 

Hugs to you and Sam, and hoping for something minor!

[KF_in_Georgia]

Double check his ears: the furry side, the underside of the leather, and even around the edges. Ears often bleed like nobody's business, then seal up, then might bleed a bit more, and it's easy to scratch an ear on bushes during a trip outside. My Sam and Oreo once got into a squabble (over saltine crackers). She bled very little (and I got there right away), but it turned out that Sam had tagged her on that little flap of skin that's on the inside of the ear: no flap on one ear after that.

 

Glad your Sam is doing well.