Blood Donor Program

Today’s Donor Could Be Tomorrow’s Receiver

As a 24-hour referral and emergency hospital, many of the cases we treat require life-saving blood transfusions such as:

• Severe trauma (i.e., motor vehicle accidents, dog attacks, arterial cuts)
• Rat bait toxicity
• Von Willebrands disease (common in Dobermans)
• Haemophilia
• Haemolytic anemia (destruction of red cells secondary to immune mediated diseases or onion toxicity)
• Immune mediated thrombocytopenia (destruction of platelets)
• Life threatening infections
• Cancer

Donor Benefits

Our donor heroes help by keeping our in-house blood bank continuously stocked to save the life of another pet. In return, each hero receives:

• Free Laboratory Testing

• • Full blood work during the first donation, then annually going forward (over a $200 value)
  • For every donation, free laboratory testing of red blood cells (PCV) and total protein laboratory tests to ensure they are not anemic (over a $50 value)
  • Cats will be tested for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus and Feline Leukemia Virus, if required
• Free health assessment (over a $75 value)
• Free unit of blood or plasma transfusion for each unit of blood donated ($500.00/per unit)
• Free blood donor tag
• Lots of TLC from our staff for being a hero