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Thank you all for your input & concern...... Sally's nose bleed did stop that night, eventually, & she seems OK since. I have since spoken to a specialist vet aquaintance who said 75% (maybe more) of nose bleeds in dogs are due to tumours..... They usually bleed only through one nostril until late stages. Otherwise, could be an aspergillus infection but you'd expect a snotty discharge as well, or a foreign body. To begin investigation with anaesthetic, endoscope and maybe CT - looking at $800 up. Sally is fine at the moment, so my parents are going to get in touch with vet specialist to talk more, but otherwise sit on it until/if it happens again..... Thanks again; will update you if anything changes, for your interest.

My mother's is quite concerned - their kelpie x 'Sally' has a nose bleed that's been going on most of the day......the dog is around 7 yrs old, the blood is clotting OK otherwise, but Sally is quite distressed because she can't breathe (both nostrils full of blood). She had a few mucous-bloody discharge episodes from the nose a couple of months ago (roughly), but vet examinations revealed nothing. This is mum's email to me tonight - "Have you ever heard of dog nosebleeds? You might remember Sally had a snotty nose problem at Wello Pt, which cleared eventually, although we had her checked out as much as possible by the vet, they thought it might be an allergy. But for the last five days she has had progressively worse nose bleeds, today she sprayed all the van, the car, and me. The vet here says she is probably having just a nosebleed which is not clearing up, has never seen anything quite like it before, same as Thornlands vet. The blood just pours out and down her chin, then she sneezes and shakes her head! Disaster! The only thing they can come up with is that there is a very rare sarcoma which causes something like this, but no-one has ever seen it. Let me know if you know anything." Has anyone experienced this before? If so, what was the outcome? Mum is starting to think it must be a tumour, which will mean the green dream, especially if the bleeding doesn't stop soon so Sally can calm down. The vet today wasn't terribly concerned, it seems, & said to give it a few days (since, like humans, she may recover from the nose bleed with no ill effects) BUT how long is too long for the bleeding to go on??? Thanks for your time....

Good work Sway! Just a couple of suggestions (I haven't read whole thread, so apologies if someone else has already) - * specify that they're prefixes for registered dog breeders (since prefixes are used for all sorts of animals); and * IF possible, maybe the state the breeder resides?? (tho I realize there's a heap of work in it already, without this further info) Please add my prefix "Zuhraan" for Pointers - thanks!!