What an excellent idea! Gotta say, I've never heard of it before.

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Great post Alan.

Zak hated the vets so we only took him when absolutely necessary However, I am hoping that Luika will be a little more accepting of his visits to the vets, so would be happy for him to give blood.

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you can call your vets and explain to them that you would like your dog to become a blood donor, they will have to run through the neccessary questions and will also need to give your dog a full health check to make sure she doesnt have any under lying health problems!

you can also follow the link to register your dog as a blood donor: see the first page for the link

At the moment they are still searching for volunteers so just give them a ring and volunteer her, they aren't at the stage of doing health checks etc yet just getting a list of volunteers to see if it is viable.

that is true, but you can still register with your vet if you want your dog's to donate blood.

when a dog needs a transfusion, the vet will contact someone suitable to give blood for the dog that they need it for!!!

the only reason i know about it, is because when i did my work placement with my local vets 5 years ago there was a grey hound who came in and gave blood for another very sick grey hound!

Did I say you couldn't?

no you didnt and i never said you did. dont get angry again and turn this thread into another blood bath!

read my last post, i agreed with you!

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now, now no need to be funny!

I had never even heard of that before!

Are dogs like humans with the blood groups like AB+ ect??