bangalore an sos post on facebook has put jixy the labrador on the path to recovery down with tick fever jixy needed a quick blood transfusion to get back on her paws her parent vandana gupta put up an appeal on facebook and lo young bubbles came to her rescue jixy 9 accompanied vandana when she drove down from chennai to bangalore to spend time with her inlaws before flying to china on july 11 to join her husband in bangalore jixy developed red patches on her stomach and stopped eating she became dull and anxious and vandana took her to a local vet who said the dog had internal bleeding v andana who had bought jixy online in mumbai when she was just 10 days old took her to cessna lifeline veterinary hospital for a blood test vets diagnosed jixy with tick fever which had left her with low platelet count and haemoglobin the pet was sinking and needed an immediate blood transfusion they said and admitted to the hospital on june 29 the hospital transfused 350 ml of blood on friday but jixy needed more blood thats when i contacted the voice of stray dogs vosd an ngo for blood vandana says vosd posted a message with a photo of jixy on its facebook page the post had the contact numbers of vandana and dr ajitesh and dr ramesh within an hour vandana received nearly 20 calls from punjab delhi mumbai and chennai apart from numerous replies expressing concern and good wishes among the numerous donors doctors chose bubbles a ninemonthold black labrador ranjani krishna shettigar an executive assistant in a software firm and owner of bubbles said i saw the fb message on sunday and called dr ramesh i took my pet to the hospital for blood donation they took blood samples and matched with that of jixy they drew blood from bubbles neck of course bubbles was in pain i could see it in his face it took nearly 30 minutes to draw blood but im happy my bubbles was able to help jixy according to vandana jixy is yet to recover vomiting hasnt stopped and she isnt eating yet dr ajitesh who is treating jixy told toi on tuesday evening the internal bleeding hasnt stopped and shes still vomiting she gets tired soon in spite of the transfusion her haemoglobin level is low were giving medication to bring down the bleeding