Dog blood donation in Kolkata: where to call first

Call the hospital treating your dog and ask:

1. Does my dog need whole blood, packed red cells or plasma?
2. Can you transfuse here, and have you typed or cross-matched my dog?
3. What kind of donor do you need: age, weight, anything else?
4. If you can't transfuse, which Kolkata hospital would you send us to?

Then look for the donor yourself. Ask your building group, your dog-walking friends and local dog groups for a dog that fits what the vet said. Most requests are for a healthy, vaccinated dog between one and eight years old, and the bigger the better: a Labrador, a German Shepherd, a Golden Retriever or a large Indie.

Keep the hospital as the meeting point. Don't arrange a private collection, don't move blood between homes, and don't post your home address or your dog's medical records in public groups.

• Vetic Pet Clinic, Salt LakeBidhannagar
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• Vetic Pet Clinic, Southern AvenueKeyatala
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• Animal Health Pathology Lab, Deshapriya ParkBallygunge
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• Vetic advertises blood transfusion and 24-hour emergency support on its Kolkata page. It has three clinics here, in Salt Lake, Southern Avenue and Behala. Their location cards show regular hours of 10 am to 8 pm, while Vetic says its app's SOS option connects owners to emergency help after 8 pm. Call first and ask which clinic can perform the transfusion now and whether you need to bring a donor. Vetic's emergency line is +91 89290 43121.
• Animal Health Pathology Lab provides veterinary blood testing in Kolkata. It is a diagnostic laboratory, not a hospital. Ask the treating vet which tests are needed and confirm that the lab can perform them before visiting.

At night, use Vetic's SOS option or start with the hospital already treating your dog. You can also call one from our 24-hour vets in Kolkata guide and ask whether it can transfuse and what donor it needs.

Other hospitals may transfuse without saying so on their websites, so always ask the one treating your dog.

India's national blood-bank guidelines list the main reasons: severe anaemia, very low platelets, clotting disorders, serious injury with heavy bleeding, and anaemic dogs who need surgery. Tick fever is one way a dog gets there, because the Babesia parasite destroys red blood cells. Our tick fever guide explains the signs.

India's August 2025 animal blood-bank guidelines describe a donor dog as one to eight years old, healthy, calm, vaccinated including rabies, regularly dewormed, free of tick-borne disease, and not pregnant or recently lactating. Minimum weight depends on the dog's size: 5 to 7 kg for small breeds, 15 to 20 kg for medium breeds and 25 kg for large breeds.

The same guidelines require a health exam, medical-history review and blood screening before donation. They give 15 to 20 ml per kg as the safe collection range and at least one to two hours of observation afterwards. Compatibility testing is a veterinary decision: the document notes that cross-matching is not normally required before a dog's first transfusion, but recommends it after a previous transfusion. Let the treating vet decide what this patient needs.