My dog is vomiting blood and mucus. Should I take her to the vet?
Updated On September 23rd, 2025
Pet's info: Dog | Alaskan Malamute | Female | unspayed | 1 year and 7 months old | 50 lbs
My dog has been vomiting blood this morning. She has done it 3 times in the past 5 minutes. It's just pools of mucus and blood. Last night I caught her eating tissue paper and am not sure if this could be a cause for it or not. She is an inside dog.
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Published on July 7th, 2017
Poor Lady! Eating tissue paper should not normally cause any significant issues unless she ate a very large amount, so this is probably not related. Vomiting blood is always a very serious concern, so I would recommend taking Lady to the vet right away for an exam. She may have internal bleeding due to a stomach ulcer or foreign body, a GI illness such as pancreatitis or HGE (hemorrhagic gastroenteritis), or may have gotten into something toxic. Your vet can do blood work and x-rays if needed to help diagnose the problem and get her started on appropriate treatment right away.
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I'm sorry to hear that Lady is not feeling well. I would recommend that you have her seen by a veterinarian. Vomiting blood can indicate a serious problem such as a stomach ulcer. If she got into tissue paper, it's possible she ate something else that is irritating to her stomach. Your veterinarian may recommend blood work or x-rays to better determine what is going
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Published on May 29th, 2018
Intermittent vomiting can be a very difficult symptom to diagnose as there may not be any obvious indicators as to the underlying cause. I recommend you contact your vets office for the ultrasound report and consider a full blod panel including b vitamin analysis as chronic bowel issues can often have low b12 levels and respond well to additional supplementation. I would convert her onto a bland, ultra low-fat diet whilst this is being investigated, my preferred option is royal canin gastro low fat (3-4 small meals each day) and also add a probiotic such as fortiflora. Ensure she is up to date with deworming treatments also. An endoscopy or camera study of the gullet and stomach may be required to check for inflammation or foreign bodies causing the bleeding
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