If your vet wants a bile acid test, or your dog’s result just came back high, you are probably wondering how worried to be. The test takes a morning: one blood sample before a meal, a small meal, two hours of waiting, then a second sample. The wait between samples is part of the test […]
Read Post »A yellow tinge to the whites of your dog’s eyes can be the first hint, and for other dogs the first hint is a bilirubin value flagged high on a lab report. Either way, that yellow is jaundice, and it means bilirubin, a yellow pigment, is building up in the body. A high result is […]
Read Post »What a High GGT Points To A high GGT on your dog’s bloodwork usually points to irritation or slowed drainage somewhere in the bile ducts, not to liver failure. What it means depends on how many days into a problem the blood was drawn. The same value can mean two different things on day two […]
Read Post »AST sits mostly in two places, muscle and the liver, and that split is what makes a flagged AST on your dog’s blood chemistry results tricky to read. A high value means that cells somewhere in the body have been disrupted. The number alone cannot tell you whether the cause was a strained muscle, a […]
Read Post »Your dog’s blood results came back with one line flagged high: ALP, short for alkaline phosphatase. On its own, that flag does not mean something serious is wrong. ALP is one of the most commonly raised values on a canine chemistry panel, and on a page full of flags it is often one of the […]
Read Post »Your dog walks past a full bowl to meet you at the door, and you wonder whether that is affection or a hope that you mean dinner. For a long time, science could only guess from behavior. A 2016 brain-imaging study got closer by watching awake dogs’ brains react to praise and to food. For […]
Read Post »If you are feeding grain-free dog food, or thinking about it, you have probably run into the claim that it can damage a dog’s heart. The label only tells you half the story: grain-free says what the recipe left out, not what went in instead. The heart disease worry sits almost entirely in that second […]
Explore Products »You are standing in the pet food aisle, and every bag promises something: natural, grain-free, premium, real chicken first. Most of that is marketing. A few small lines on the back carry real regulatory weight, and those are the ones that tell you whether a food can actually feed your dog. A label can confirm […]
Explore Products »A neat pile of kibble on the rug, two steps from the bowl, is one of the more common reasons owners go looking for answers. Most of the time it means almost nothing: a cat that bolts its food, or a hairball on its way out. Sometimes vomiting that keeps coming back is the first […]
Read Post »A cat crouches low, extends its neck, and retches. Sometimes a damp tube of fur arrives and the cat walks away to finish breakfast. Sometimes nothing arrives at all. From across the room those two scenes look nearly identical, and they belong to different problems. One is ordinary cat maintenance that a few habits can […]
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