Hi all I am in need of your brains please.
Pup came into season at the start of Jan, shortly after her Mum who finished hers Xmas time. It was pups 1st season and seemed to progress as normal. Not a heavy season as I would expect with a 1st one, but I had no worries about things and assumed it was normal in duration.  Anyway she has now started bleeding again, just 8 weeks after. Vulva swollen and definate blood staining on a tissue. Would you think this is a split season? or maybe her Mum brought her in too soon and her own body is now telling her this is the right time?
Your advice would be most welcome as I have never had this before but am sure lots of you have some knowledge to pass on.
Thanks in advance.
Aileen

Anyone?

Either of those. 

> Would you think this is a split season? or maybe her Mum brought her in too soon and her own body is now telling her this is the right time?
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Has happened to me in the past, and it worried me, but after Barbara gave some advice, I was much happier.

Which is just as well, as it's just happened to me again.  Different bitches, but same circumstances.

Bit of an update for you. I took Shabby to the vet this morning and had her womb scanned as was not to happy with things.
Looks like there is pus in there so we have done bloods and also a slide of the discharge to look for cells. My vet thinks it may be what she called an "infected false pregnancy" not quite a pyometra but not right. She said it is quite a fine line between a false preg' and a pyometra. A kind of grey area if you like that usually just resoves itself but occasionally goes the wrong way as with Shabby. If the tests confirm this (Back later today) then it will be a course of anti-biotics to deal with the infection and some Galstop to dry up the false pregnancy that allowed the womb to be the right environment for the infection to grow.
So I am glad I went with my instincts and popped down as it would only have got worse otherwise and could have become a full blown pyo. Her vulva had swollen and the discharge did look very like a bleed from a season so could have been easy to confuse. For anyone reading this it is always best to check.
Aileen

Aileen, I was luckier than you have been.  The first time it happened to me, I assumed a pyo and took my girl in for exactly the same as you.  The vet was able to look up inside my girl - with something similar to the instrument that they use for looking inside ears.  Of course, the name of it has just flown out the window while I'm typing.

The vet was actually able to tell me that there was no bleeding from the cervix, and no visual signs of infection.  Which helped to ease my worries a little while awaiting results.  Sorry you haven't been as lucky.  But it did - for me - confirm what Barbara had told me.

Thanx Aileen, hope she is on the mend soon.

Your poor girl, best wishes Lois

Right lets see if I can get this down in a sensible fashion!!!
Blood tests all as per normal, no sign of any increase in white cell count so no raging infections. The smear was teeming with bactieria a few red cells but very few white cells so not an infection but a problem with increased bacteria. Vet has prescribed anti-biotics and is thinking maybe a vaginitus running roit. However with the possibility of an open access to the womb following the season in Jan and the possible false pregnancy now it is a distinct possibility that it could track up into the womb..hence the ABX. The other suggestion is of a mild Hybiscrub wash down round her bits (And her thick fluffy trousers) a couple of times a day to keep clean. Without progesteron testing (and I am not over worried about this) we cannot tell for certain if she is also having a second/split season. But I am happy to avoid male dog contact for a while to see how she goes, her vulva is quite swollen but the bloody discharge is less (More a dirty red watery sort) today than yesterday. Could a vaginitus cause the swelling do you think?
Anyway we will give her a couple of days on the ABX and see how she gets on.
Aileen