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Hi everyone,
I just adopted a (supposedly) purebred GSD on Monday. She's 3 years old and intact. I have an appointment to get her spayed in two weeks.
So, to give you a little bit of her backstory, according to the previous owners: she was accidentally bred on her first heat cycle and had a very difficult birth to two puppies, but since then has not been bred. (This is all hearsay from the previous owners, and who knows if they're telling me the truth.)
Like I said, I adopted her on Monday, and was told her last heat cycle was approximately 2 months ago ("a couple of months back" is what the previous owners said). So imagine my surprise when I fed her on Friday morning and saw little blood drops on the kitchen floor.
Other than the blood, she seems perfectly normal: not lethargic, finishes her meals, plays with me and other dogs, doesn't seem to have any other issues, and her abdomen is not distended. We did go on a sort of difficult hike on Thursday night (the night before I saw the blood) in which she was hopping over rocks and had a few close calls jumping over logs or slipping on rocks where I was worried she'd get hurt. Well, she never yelped or showed any pain, is not limping, seems perfectly fine.
So I guess...assuming what the previous owners told me is true, should I be worried that my GSD is bleeding 2 months after her last heat? A friend told me about pyometra which got me really freaked out, but other than the blood, she seems fine. It's just blood, sometimes kind brownish but, as best as I can tell, there's no pus.
Any thoughts??? Is she just in heat, do you think? Her vulva seems more swollen than I'm used to seeing in female dogs, but I'm not very experienced with dog vulvas...
I just adopted a (supposedly) purebred GSD on Monday. She's 3 years old and intact. I have an appointment to get her spayed in two weeks.
So, to give you a little bit of her backstory, according to the previous owners: she was accidentally bred on her first heat cycle and had a very difficult birth to two puppies, but since then has not been bred. (This is all hearsay from the previous owners, and who knows if they're telling me the truth.)
Like I said, I adopted her on Monday, and was told her last heat cycle was approximately 2 months ago ("a couple of months back" is what the previous owners said). So imagine my surprise when I fed her on Friday morning and saw little blood drops on the kitchen floor.
Other than the blood, she seems perfectly normal: not lethargic, finishes her meals, plays with me and other dogs, doesn't seem to have any other issues, and her abdomen is not distended. We did go on a sort of difficult hike on Thursday night (the night before I saw the blood) in which she was hopping over rocks and had a few close calls jumping over logs or slipping on rocks where I was worried she'd get hurt. Well, she never yelped or showed any pain, is not limping, seems perfectly fine.
So I guess...assuming what the previous owners told me is true, should I be worried that my GSD is bleeding 2 months after her last heat? A friend told me about pyometra which got me really freaked out, but other than the blood, she seems fine. It's just blood, sometimes kind brownish but, as best as I can tell, there's no pus.
Any thoughts??? Is she just in heat, do you think? Her vulva seems more swollen than I'm used to seeing in female dogs, but I'm not very experienced with dog vulvas...