Bleeding Vulva in my dog

[gabby120]

I have a 13 yr old female mixed breed and she has been bleeding from her vulva for about 3 weeks.  I had a mobile Vet come to my home and examin her because she is so big in size that i did not want to discomfort her more than necessary.  Needless to say I am confussed so I need help!  The vet did some labwork on her and he called me like two days later and he threw alot of information at me that I did not understand, when I asked him if it was cancer, he did not give me a straight answer.  He told me that in order to know if it was cancer he needed to run other tests but he also said that if it was cancer my dog was to old to undergo any surgery and that it could be very costly.  I am scared for my dog, I love my dog and hate to think that she could be suffering.  My confussion comes from her still eating and drinking water like normal and still gets around (even though it is slower she gets tired faster) and she still likes her daily walks.  However, the bleeding is excessive and trying to keep her clean has become very difficult.  What should I do?

[Jaybay]

If you have a regular vet who already knows your dog, give him (or her) a call.  Explain that you didn't want to traumatize her by driving her in, and ask him to call the mobile vet for more information.  That way, the results from the exam and testing will be in her regular chart, and hopefully your own vet can explain things more clearly.  Better yet, go ahead and take her in anyway.  It doesn't sound like she'd be too traumatized with a car ride at this point.  I wouldn't take the mobile vet's answer about surgery as the final opinion either - that advice would be much more reliable coming from the vet who already knows her.

If your dog was never spayed, it's possible she has cancer, but there are plenty of other things that could cause this kind of bleeding.  A bad infection of the uterus can do that, but it requires surgery to remove the uterus.  Don't give up now.  Get her to another vet FAST before she really starts suffering.

[LL7970]

is she spayed?