Missy's HEART Pet-Blood Donor Drive
Date and time is TBD
|Coffey's Veterinary Center
This event is postponed. New date TBD. Help your pet achieve SUPERHERO Status, show your love for your community, and get a few free gifts for your time!
Time & Location
Date and time is TBD
Coffey's Veterinary Center, 314 Hurt St, Columbia, KY 42728, USA
About the event
A gift of blood is a gift of life. Patients can require donor blood for many different reasons - many diseases cause the body to either reduce production of red blood cells or destroy red blood cells once they have been produced, blood loss is common in the case of trauma or surgery, and many parasites can feed on blood to the point of anemia. The need for blood in these situations is the same between both humans and their animal companions. Lack of red blood cells can cause a miryid of life-threatening complications, since red blood cells are needed to carry vital oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. Our pets cannot offer to donate blood on their own, so please consider helping them give this gift so that other pets may live.
Whole blood can be stored safely for only 30 days. Therefore, we would…