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Bruising in cats for no apparent reason is a signal that something may be seriously wrong with your pet and can have three different underlying causes. This bruising may be associated with a systematic disorder or an illness and the signs that you may see can range from a very small bruise or symptoms that indicate that your pets life may be to the point of being jeopardized.

However, what ever the actual cause is, bruising, even if the reason is understood, should always be treated as a very serious threat and should never be ignored.

In fact, if the reason is from unknown cause, you should contact your veterinarian immediately as the chances are very high that your cat will start to become pale, weak, or extremely distressed. Bruising in cats is not a normal condition and should be treated as seriously as panting or coughing.

The severity of the bruising will all depend on the amount of blood that is being lost and can affect any part of your cats body. Bleeding disorders are almost always the cause of the bruising, but it is very important to understand that what you are seeing as a sudden bruise in your pet is only what appears on the surface on their skin, membranes, mouth, nose, or the areas around the eyes.

The bruising that you do see can be much more serious.

Symptoms:

There are several symptoms that you can watch for with bruising in cats, and some will be different forms of bruising while others will be signs of internal bruising and bleeding.

The first symptoms will of course be the sudden appearance of bruises or swelling that is located on or under your cats skin. However, there are other forms of bruising that you will need to watch for that are not as apparent. The first will be a very small dot, almost simulating a small spot the size of a needle, or a small hemorrhage that suddenly appears on your pets gums.

You may also see this same small dot suddenly appear and than spread in your cats whites of their eyes or on the inside of the eyelids. Once these symptoms do occur, you may also see two other very telling symptoms; bleeding the starts to seep in your cats front eye chamber as well as nose bleeds.

If the bruising and bleeding is internal, you will see a sudden appearance of blood in the urine or the stool, and your cats gums will also start to turn pale as the result of anemia. However, perhaps the most chilling of all symptoms and a real warning sign will be a wound or a cut that will bleed so profusely that you can not get it stopped.

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