I'm wondering if anybody has any experience of the following?
On Tuesday I took my 51/2 year old bitch to the vet for blood tests, mainly looking for thyroid malfunction. She also has a lump on her side which the vet wanted to take a biopsy of.
However, Daisy seems to have no blood!! She stuck the needle in, and blood appeared, then clotted before the syringe could be used. The vet said she needed 5 ml of blood for various tests, but only managed to scrape 1/2 ml at best, and this took an hour! She now looks a bit naked, with various shaved areas on neck and legs! and i'm sure that when I saw her take a drink, she leaked like a colander lol!

The lump suprised her too, when the needle came out, the syring was full of brown bits. She said the lump doesn't feel like a cyst, it's more 'knotty', hence the biopsy in the first place as she was worried it could be a tumour-but now she doesn't know what to think, has never seen anything like it before.
She has sent the slide off but won't get a result til early next week,so was wondering if anybody could put my mind at rest in the meantime?

Susy

I have the same problem when I have to have blood taken, the veins seem to 'shut down' and blood stops flowing.  The Phlebotomist gets around this by using smaller needles (for children/babies) and being extremely careful, even so it often takes 3 or 4 tries before we get blood :rolleyes:

Hope this helps

I have a similar problem when I try to give blood. It cna help if I dring loads of water for a few days before hand, but Im not sure how you would get a dog to do that!