So sweet! Carlos, a retired racing track dog, donates blood regularly to help treat sick or injured animals in need of transfusions.
MADISON, Wis. - About once a month, Carlos the greyhound eagerly walks with Emma Doubleday to an examination room in the University of Wisconsin Veterinary Care Blood Bank, where he does something that could save another dog’s life: he donates blood.
Carlos, a retired racing track dog, is one of 29 canines and 14 cats that donate blood regularly at theThe blood is used to treat sick or injured animals in need of transfusions. Doubleday is a Care Blood Donor Coordinator with the university. She says Carlos, whose owner works at the clinic, has been part of the blood donor program for 2 to 3 years.. “One, he loves people. He loves coming in. He knows there’s a treat involved, and his ‘Mom’ says he talks all the way in.”“There’s no replacement for blood, just like with humans,” Doubleday said. “In our I.C.U. right now there are probably three other animals that could be using transfusions this week.
The donations are lifesavers for dogs like Chauncey, who nearly bled to death last fall after apparently ingesting some poison. His owners Andy and Wendy Uhl are grateful to still have the now 15-month-old dog in their lives.Chauncey needed several transfusions because he was bleeding internally. Veterinarians at UW Veterinary Care were able to save Chauncey with the blood from donor dogs like Carlos.
“It’s also good to see it all the way through,” Doubleday said. “I know who it came from, I know who it went to, and I’ve said it before, but a little bit of my soul is in every single one of the donations and blood products. Knowing that that many lives were changed by something like this? It’s irreplaceable.”Greyhounds are universal blood donors for nearly all other canines, but a dog certainly doesn’t have to be a greyhound to donate.for dog and cat donors.
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