Brooke has to have blood drawn monthly and they do it through the jugular in the neck. Sometimes she bleeds more than others and sometimes she get a bruise too!! I always wondered why they kept taking it from her neck. The vet tech said that if you keep taking blood from a leg, the veins are so small there that you could collapse them with continued use and then you won't have a vein to use when you have an emergency and need an iv placed! Hope this helps! |