Onions are highly toxic to dogs and cats. Fortunately, most cats have better sense than to eat onions, but onions that have been cooked with a tasty sauce may be attractive to both species. Grocery store onions are not the only culprit. Wild onions growing as volunteers in your yard are just as poisonous. Even [...]
The “veterinary geriatric workup” has been replaced by “age-appropriate laboratory testing.” Why? The more laboratory tests veterinarians perform, the more we learn. Thirty years ago pets had laboratory testing only when they were sick. Then pets began to have laboratory tests before anesthesia, until the benefit was observed to be so great that every anesthetic [...]
Friday we discussed our Pearl being in kidney failure based on laboratory test results within the Chemistry Profile. Geographically, the first result on our laboratory’s report that relates to the kidneys is BUN, or Blood Urea Nitrogen. Put most simply BUN is a measure of one waste product of protein metabolism. When dietary protein is [...]
Your pet’s doctor finds many reasons to perform laboratory tests for your pet. Sometimes tests are run as a “baseline”, a set of tests by which to measure future performance of the body. That way, if your pet ever becomes ill, he can say, “When he was “x” years of age, “normal” for him was [...]
Urinary incontinence is a common problem in dogs and a less common problem in cats. Workup for urinary incontinence begins with a thorough physical examination followed by routine screening laboratory tests: Complete Blood Count (CBC), Chemistry Profile and chemical and microscopic urinalysis. In the CBC we will be looking for anemia which might be driven [...]
I was at lunch today when I saw Touloulou’s owner and asked how she was doing. “I’m glad I ran into you because I had an epiphany the other day talking to my daughter. She said, ‘Touloulou isn’t eating my gum since school has been out.’ I asked what she meant and she said, ‘She [...]
Great news for Martha! Martha’s test results are back and I’m happy to report that our initial worries reported July 2, 2009 prior to testing were not confirmed. Martha does have a couple of a common feline kidney problems. It is important to understand about kidneys that they have many, many functions. While we won’t [...]
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