November is Senior Month!  This is a time we celebrate our senior pets and offer our clients discounts on preventative care exams and diagnostics such as blood work and urinalysis.

Regardless of when your pet became a part of your life, you have always strived to make sure they are comfortable, fed a nutritious diet and well loved.  

After the age of 7, our pets are considered seniors.  Apart from a physical examination by your veterinarian, senior blood work and urinalysis are another way to gain valuable information on the health of your pet.  

Diagnostic tests help us manage, track your pet’s health and intervene sooner, helping your pet live longer. Disease is often well advanced before it will manifest into noticeable clinical signs you can detect and pets unfortunately age 7 times faster than humans do.  Since pets are unable to articulate symptoms, many painful conditions often go unrecognized and left untreated for long periods of time and pain is frequently associated with significant underlying disease ie. dental disease, osteoarthritis, urinary tract infections.

At Chedoke Animal Hospital, our blood work and urinalysis are often run in our in-clinic lab, allowing for faster results, which means faster treatment and management for your mature pet!