Can you register your dog as a blood donor?

Tweedette yours is really a totally irrational view, and very insulting to those who generously offer their dogs as donors. As for dogs in home being a no no and rescues okay, which is preferable, a dog that is relaxed and happy with its owner, or a rescue which is possibly stressed anyhow from being in kennels?
Am I right in thinking you breed from your bitches? Have you had children yourself, cos I seriously did sympathise with my bitches whelping after I had given birth
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, although they do seem to have an easier time of it than us humans but it didn't stop me breeding (puppies that is
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) to follow your view you surely shouldn't put bitches through whelping. Most life saving veterinary treatment involves needles so your phobia must cause you huge problems.
Incidentally, whilst I don't have a phobia of them I do not like needles or injections, however I do give blood because who knows when it may god forbid, be someone I care about in need of that blood.

ETS Cayla if an Akita said NO, I would be inclined to say okay then.
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I weighed Scoobie today and have discovered he is heavy enough, the right age and the pet blood centre is based near me (or something like that) so am looking into getting Scoobie registered and taking him along for a session. He's a bit of a wuss so I'm going to play it by ear and see how he copes and then hopefully make it a regular thing.

I'm chuffed as I didn't think he would be heavy enough but he is, by quite a lot :P
 
Woohoo!
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I don't know if it is any help, but one of my late Buhunds needed acupuncture for a slight HD fault, one day when an appointment was due I simply couldn't go with her and mother went there with her instead. I gave my mother clear instructions, knowing that our old lady had both one or two foxes behind her ears, ''Put her up on the table and tell <u>yourself</u> that you will not tolerate any fuss, you know that she can do this and lay still but she will test you, to see if you have decided that this is something she needs to do.''

Sure enough mother came home and told me it had been exactly as I predicted, Nessie had acted as if everything was normal but once up on the table, she looked at mother and tried to get off! Mother took a firm grip and told Nessie she could forget that and Nessie lied down and accepted her ''fate''.
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Fingers crossed for that Scoobie surprises you, when you go there to have a try.
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My dogs are registered with Pet Blood Bank, Hector has donated once already and Throp will be joining him for their next session this Saturday so we shall see how he gets on. If at any time the dog isn't happy then they don't proceed any further so its not forced on the dog and they aren't sedated.

They have a check up with the with the vet first to make sure they are in good health. Then a patch on leg &amp; neck is shaved to take a small blood sample from the leg to test it and send the rest for full blood profile (which they also pass on to your own vet). There was a vet &amp; assistant so i didn't have to hold Hector while they took the sample.

Then we went through to another room for donating where lots of ladies lifted Hector on to a matress on the table (the only bit he wasn't sure about). They took a donation while hector happily lounged getting lots of fuss from all the ladies. Hector didn't want to get up when he'd finished, but he liked the treats and food he got after.

I'm not great with needles and blood but i found it fine and as it was all done with me pretty much just standing about and not involved so i didn't have to look. It doesn't take up much time and helps poorly dogs so is well worth doing if your able to.
 
Webley has donated twice now (vet's dog). We're trying to get him to associate steak with giving blood... Given the other things he has associated (swear words from kitchen, cattle grids and me being in the car (but not cattle grids and just my OH!)) - I think he'll get there soon enough...

Given that things requiring blood are usually very urgent - waiting for a delivery of the right type of blood (for second and subsequent transfusions) wouldn't work round here.
 
Yea thats true Wishful and was the case with bernie, the reason I was called is the vet didn't have time to go 20 minutes home and back again to collect her own dog, he needed the blood within in the hour he was fading that fast. I didn't know how common that was though (that level of emergency with such a small time frame to act) I guess the best thing is to keep your dog registered with your own local vet as a donor then? Rather than donating to the blood bank?
 
Both Webley's were urgent (1 hour or less). RTAs are the classic one - but stuff involving the spleen is also an issue. Dogs are funny in that they can have any type of blood for a first infusion (in their life) but after that you have to cross match with the donor dog's blood.
 
My Lab has given blood before!
The vet rang to ask if I would mind as she thought he would be an ideal dog to donate blood to Mike Rutherfords (from Genisis) dog that was in (I think with poisoning??), and so I took him down and he did his bit.
I was working for another well know musician at the time who was friends with him and about a week after he came up with a huge hamper of goodies for me and another for Bentley (my Lab) that was full of treats and toys, still makes me smile knowing we helped out even now.
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