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Blair

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Small purplish spots
« on: November 10, 2005, 07:04:58 pm »
Grey has these small purplist spots in like 3 different spots on his body. Does anyone have a clue what they could be? They dont seem to be hurting him or anything, I just noticed them when I was petting him today.

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Re: Small purplish spots
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2005, 07:08:54 pm »
Can you take a picture to give us a better idea what they look like?
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Re: Small purplish spots
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2005, 07:22:21 pm »
Here is the best I can do...its hard to see cause they are under his hair and almost look like his black spots but they are purple in color

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Re: Small purplish spots
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2005, 07:45:33 pm »
It looks like blood under the skin.   Did he have immunizations recently?  It does look like bleeding under the skin.  Check his mouth and ears for blood...and stools.  Sorry if this all sounds scary, but it seems similar to what Lucille, my Newfy-girl had and it ended up being ITP (immune-mediated thromocytopeni a).   It's probably something else all together but that's the only thing I've had experience with.  Check his ears and mouth and stools.  If there's no blood, then it's probably something else.  Got my fingers crossed~!

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Re: Small purplish spots
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2005, 10:35:57 pm »
check his thyroid
it could be that, my male newf years ago developed big ones all under carriage from bottom of chest backwards.
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