However, lumps or lesions due to tongue cancer are not always painful. Other symptoms of tongue cancer can include swollen lymph glands, especially in the neck. This is called lymphedema and may be a sign that the tongue cancer has spread beyond the tongues into the deeper tissues of the mouth and neck.
If your dog needs a plasma transfusion or any other type of blood transfusion, your vet will match your dog's blood type to the donor dog's blood type. He'll also cross match the antibodies in your dog's blood to those in the donor dog's blood, to make sure your dog doesn't suffer an allergic reaction.
Canine parvovirus (CPV), is a viral disease that is highly contagious and can spread quickly to dogs that are not immune from the disease. The current strain of parvovirus (CPV2) was discovered in 1978, and within 2 years had spread all over the world. Parvovirus can affect dogs, wolves and foxes; but it cannot infect other animals and cannot be spread from dogs to humans. However, other animals and humans can pass the virus onto dogs. Parvovirus affects mainly puppies and younger dogs. (However, older dogs can catch the parvo virus as well.) Puppies between weaning and up to six months of age are the most at risk.