Heritage Animal Hospital offers a wide variety of laboratory testing for your pet. We feel that regular laboratory testing allows us to catch changes early, which allows us to be proactive in preventing, slowing, or treating diseases. We recommend yearly blood work for all pets in the form of our annual health screen. We also may recommend additional testing based on your pet’s situation and symptoms. We have an in house laboratory as well as utilizing an outside laboratory to allow us to do more in depth testing. Most of our lab results come in next day, but a few of the tests can take 5-7 days or longer. We will let you know when to expect results and will call as soon as we get the results in.

Below is a listing of our most common tests, if we can help you with any of these please let us know. Don’t see what you’re looking for?  Please ask as this is not an all-inclusive list.

In house testing:

• Complete Blood Count (CBC)
• Packed Cell Volume and Total Protein (PCV/TP)
• Chemistry panels to look at liver and kidney values as well as electrolytes and glucose
• Canine 4Dx (Ehrlichia, Lyme, Anaplasma, and Heartworm test) to look for tick borne illness
• Feline leukemia virus and Feline immunodeficiancy virus test
• Heartworm test
• Fine Needle Aspirates
• Cytology
• Skin scrapes to check for mites
• Ear cytology for ear infections
• Stool Analysis
  • Normal-float to look for intestinal parasites
  • Comprehensive-float, direct smear, Giardia snap test, and Gram stain to look for intestinal parasites, Giardia, and bacterial imbalances or overgrowths

Send out testing:

• Cytology
• Histopathology
• Urolith analysis (bladder stones)
• Culture and Sensitivity (abscesses, wounds, ear infections, urine, other)
• Fungal Cultures (ringworm)
• Phenobarbital levels (seizure medication), various other medication levels
• Bile acids
• Endocrine testing
  • Thyroid levels
  • ACTH stimulation test (Cushings or Addison’s disease)
  • Glucose curves and fructosamine levels (Diabetes)
• Urine protein: creatinine ratio (assess kidney function)
• Fluid analysis (from thoracocentesis, abdominocentesis, etc.)
• Allergy testing
• Vitamins, minerals, hormones, and toxin blood levels
• Disease titers
• Coagulation panel (clotting times)