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dog I groomed yesterday in the ER, any idea what it could be?
I work at a very large boarding kennel. Yesterday I did two schnauzers from the same family who had been there for 2 weeks. When I was walking them down from their kennel I noticed the boys rear end looked like he had been chewing it (red discolored hair) and the girl working kennel stopped me and said his butt looked "weird" and to take a closer look at it. When I got to the groom room it looked like there was a little bit of dried blood on his hair, so I called back up to the girl to see if there was blood anywhere in their kennel. She said the dogs poop looked normal, but there were a few little drops of blood around the kennel. At this point I talked to my manager about what was going on, she said to continue the groom and that it was probably due to stress.
So I wet him down, and notice he is bleeding from his front leg, very very tiny cut, didn't see a scab. Everything went normal, didn't notice anything else in the tub.
Got the dog on my table, started off doing a rear sanitary trim, and now that the hair was shorter I could see a rash or bruising back there. Did belly sani, noticed the same thing. Blade was freshly cleaned and oiled before doing any of this so I knew it wasn't from that. His body looked normal, head also had what looked like bruises on the more prominent spots on his head, chest also had spots. At this point the owner was called to see if they had changed foods or something, they decided to wait and see what happens and if things continue to go to the vet. Finished the groom, his behavior was normal, wasn't pooping blood or anything like that.
So today another one of the managers called me to find out more information about the whole thing, and says that the dog is now at the ER, with internal bleeding, blood coming out of both ends, and the vet is saying the marks on his body are bruises. Anyone have experience with anything like this? I know I didn't cause this to happen, but it sure doesn't feel good to be involved with it. I even mentioned to the manager yesterday that I hoped it wasn't something serious, because it did look like bruising to me and that I've heard so many horror stories online of groomers finding stuff like this, having it checked out and it turns out it is a serious health concern.
I hope everything turns out alright for this poor dog : /
So I wet him down, and notice he is bleeding from his front leg, very very tiny cut, didn't see a scab. Everything went normal, didn't notice anything else in the tub.
Got the dog on my table, started off doing a rear sanitary trim, and now that the hair was shorter I could see a rash or bruising back there. Did belly sani, noticed the same thing. Blade was freshly cleaned and oiled before doing any of this so I knew it wasn't from that. His body looked normal, head also had what looked like bruises on the more prominent spots on his head, chest also had spots. At this point the owner was called to see if they had changed foods or something, they decided to wait and see what happens and if things continue to go to the vet. Finished the groom, his behavior was normal, wasn't pooping blood or anything like that.
So today another one of the managers called me to find out more information about the whole thing, and says that the dog is now at the ER, with internal bleeding, blood coming out of both ends, and the vet is saying the marks on his body are bruises. Anyone have experience with anything like this? I know I didn't cause this to happen, but it sure doesn't feel good to be involved with it. I even mentioned to the manager yesterday that I hoped it wasn't something serious, because it did look like bruising to me and that I've heard so many horror stories online of groomers finding stuff like this, having it checked out and it turns out it is a serious health concern.
I hope everything turns out alright for this poor dog : /
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