Take your dog to the vet.
What I am describing does not sound like what your dog has, but it is a good example of what can happen without your knowing it.
I took my dog to the vet for a routine checkup (she appeared to be feeling well), and the vet came out and said that she had "red spots" on her stomach. She wanted to do blood work right then. She did and it turned out that my dog had thrombocytopenia - an autoimmune disease - her body was distroying the platelets in her blood. The platelets in our blood are what cause the blood to clot. She was put on almost 5 different medicines right then, and I took her home.
I gave her all her medicine as directed and came home from work the next day to find blood from one end of my house to the other (she had vomited blood all over). She went to the ER vet that night and wasn't expected to live. She did make it through the night, and we went back to her regular vet the next morning. She was intolerant to some of the medicines she had been given and had vomited and started bleeding in her stomach. So - the vet had to take her off most of her medicines and treat her with a transfusion, IV fluids, and steroids only for several months. She slowly recovered......but it was a harrowing experience for both of us.
My dogs spots were red and were visible on the part of her stomach that had no hair. That doesn't sound like what your dog has - and your dog may well have nothing serious at all.
Darn - I hate it when we have to go to the vet, but I don't know what else to tell you. I don't run to the vet with every little bruise and scratch and injury, but sometimes we need to be sure nothing serious is wrong.
How long have you noticed these spots. If they are getting smaller or starting to go away, you may not have any real problem after all. Wouldn't that be nice?
Good luck...
Carol Jean |