Do dogs for example have blood types and do they have blood banks for emergencies and operations etc.
I’ve never seen signs in vets asking for your Spot to donate his 0 negative.
Dogs have about 13 different blood groups, with between 6-8 being the major ones, and cats have 3 different types. Blood transfusion are species specific, so dogs can only give to dogs and cat only to cats.
Dogs rarely have iso-antibodies against other blood types, so in most cases, blood typing or cross-matching is not required prior to a first blood transfusion – although ideally a cross match with the recipient dog would be done.
Peak Warming Man said:
Do dogs for example have blood types and do they have blood banks for emergencies and operations etc.
I’ve never seen signs in vets asking for your Spot to donate his 0 negative.
Yes, and yes.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/petshow/txt/s1728320.htm
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Peak Warming Man said:
Do dogs for example have blood types and do they have blood banks for emergencies and operations etc.
I’ve never seen signs in vets asking for your Spot to donate his 0 negative.
Yes, yes. Ok.
Not a lot of places have facilities for canine/feline donations but it is done. The animal has to meet a strict set of criteria in order to donate.
Divine Angel said:
Not a lot of places have facilities for canine/feline donations but it is done. The animal has to meet a strict set of criteria in order to donate.
No drug taking, no recent tattoos, no recent trips to England, that sort of thing?
sibeen said:
Divine Angel said:
Not a lot of places have facilities for canine/feline donations but it is done. The animal has to meet a strict set of criteria in order to donate.
No drug taking, no recent tattoos, no recent trips to England, that sort of thing?
must have eaten in the last four hours
Arts said:
sibeen said:
Divine Angel said:
Not a lot of places have facilities for canine/feline donations but it is done. The animal has to meet a strict set of criteria in order to donate.
No drug taking, no recent tattoos, no recent trips to England, that sort of thing?
must have eaten in the last four hours
Bunnings that, at uni, I used to go to the truck to get lunch…
poikilotherm said:
Arts said:
sibeen said:No drug taking, no recent tattoos, no recent trips to England, that sort of thing?
must have eaten in the last four hours
Bunnings that, at uni, I used to go to the truck to get lunch…
remarkable how uni students are good blood donors..
Arts said:
poikilotherm said:
Arts said:must have eaten in the last four hours
Bunnings that, at uni, I used to go to the truck to get lunch…
remarkable how uni students are good blood donors..
:)
Divine Angel said:
Not a lot of places have facilities for canine/feline donations but it is done. The animal has to meet a strict set of criteria in order to donate.
Like humans there is also a universal donor type.
I know of vet practices that did lots of surgery and would keep a universal donor dog (as a pet) so they had access to blood for a transfusion if they needed it.
Martins said:
Divine Angel said:
Not a lot of places have facilities for canine/feline donations but it is done. The animal has to meet a strict set of criteria in order to donate.
Like humans there is also a universal donor type.
I know of vet practices that did lots of surgery and would keep a universal donor dog (as a pet) so they had access to blood for a transfusion if they needed it.
Heh, my doggies keeper…
LOL