My Little Buddy is leaving occasional randon blood spots around

[Stinky The Clown]

My Little Buddy is a 13 year old tabby of indeterminate origin. She lives alone, by choice, in my office area. She keeps me company and is my special sweetheart.

For the last year or so, she's had various minor bleeding issues. The worst was two episodes of blood in her eye, on the lower edge of the color part. It came up one day, stayed about a week, and then faded. We took her to the vet when the second one happened. The vet said if it happens again (a third time) to bring her in for a checkup. That was more than a year ago and there hasn't been a repeat.

Now, maybe three or four times, I have found small spots of blood where she lays (on a conference table). Not a trail of blood. Just a dried drop here or there. Inspecting her shows no wound and no source of the blood. A real mystery. This has happened, as I said, three or four times over the last two years or so. There is another blood spot today. She seems perfectly fine. Happy and playful and sleepy and scoldy and all normal behaviors.

Any ideas?

[FloriTexan]

1. I used to notice spots...

when my cat had a urinary tract infection. She always started hopping in the tub for some reason when she got those.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Is that a common feline malady?

I guess its possible. I confess to never having thought about it, even as we're had only female animals over the years.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. If she lets you, see if you can blot around her body with a paper towel in an attempt to locate the

source.

Where the spots in her eye such that they could have led to a drop being left behind?

This is a puzzle...and please keep us updated if you find an answer.

I hope she is OK.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. No, the eyes had blood spots inside the outer layer. They never bled in the common sense.

It looked a lot what I would imagine could happen if she were poked in the eye. In fact, that's exactly what we thought it was the first time it happened; that's the simply ran into something in one of her bouts of "the cat crazies". The second time, in the same spot is what caused us to go to the vet.

The current leaving of random spots of blood with no obvious source of bleeding is similar in that it is a repeat event and inexplicable.

She's sufficiently docile for me that I can examine her, and I have. Nada

[japple]

5. My cats have left small spots of blood whenever they've had a

urinary tract infection. UTIs are very common in cats. Best to get her back to the vet for a checkup.

[Warpy]

6. Get her anal glands checked out

When my kitty started to do that a few years ago, that was her problem. She got pretty sick with it, to the point the vet suspected the big C, but she's been fine since they were drained and she went through a course of antibiotics.

She's still neurotic as hell, but she's 17 going on 18 and healthy.