Canine Wellness and Senior Screens
Routine blood work is an essential diagnostic tool that provides important information regarding your dog’s health. Yearly blood work allows us to understand what your dog’s normal blood values are and to identify trends in their blood work from year to year.
What does this blood work include?
Wellness screen: Dogs 1-7 years of age need a wellness screen yearly. Our wellness screen is comprised of three tests: Complete Blood Count (CBC), minor chemistry panel, and urinalysis.
Senior screen: All dogs 8 years of age and older need a senior screen at least once yearly. Our senior screen is comprised of three tests: Complete Blood Count (CBC), full chemistry panel, and urinalysis.
What does this blood work tell us?
Complete Blood Count (CBC): A CBC is the measure of white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets. This test helps us identify problems, such as infection, anemia, low platelet count, and bone marrow disease.
Chemistry panel: The minor chemistry panel provides information on kidney and liver values, protein levels, and blood sugar. The major chemistry panel also includes those values, with additional information regarding liver values, electrolytes, calcium, and phosphorus.
Urinalysis: This test looks a urine concentration, which along with kidney values, helps fully assess your dog’s kidney function. We also look for signs of urinary tract infection and abnormal protein in the urine.
4DX Snap® test
This is an important yearly screening test for Heartworm, Lyme, Anaplasma, and Ehrlichia infections.