do animals have blood groups???

Human beings have mainly four blood groups-A, B, AB and O. In humans blood group is determined by a group of carbohydrates on our RBC. Human blood contains antibodies that will trigger a reaction if, a donor of a particular blood group is donating blood to the recipient of another blood group. Therefore, before a blood transfusion, we have to ‘type’ a person’s blood and find out which kind it is.

Do you think animals too have blood groups?? The answer is, yes they do have.

It was found out that dogs have eight basic blood types, though as many as 13 may exist. The types are numbered, and are structured differently than in humans. Dogs do not have naturally occurring antibodies against other blood types.

                            

Cats have three basic blood types. Cats do have natural antibodies against different blood types, like in humans. A cat can receive a transfusion only from a cat with the same blood type.