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Patients may vomit fresh blood or digested blood. Digested blood has the appearance of coffee grounds and is often not recognised by the owner as blood (understandably). Owners are usually extremely concerned if fresh blood is observed in vomitus, though this may not be of great clinical consequence if it has resulted simply from the physical effect of intense vomiting rupturing a small superficial blood vessel.