A timely blood count and chemistry panel may save your animal’s life. Here’s why.

By Tom Ewing

Poor Abby was clearly in distress. For the past several weeks, the eight-year-old Persian had shown little interest in her food — the same food she’d been eating quite enthusiastically all of her life. When she did eat, she would spit up her food soon afterward. She also seemed to be incessantly thirsty, lapping up great quantities of water and urinating every half-hour or so.

Fortunately, Abby was due for her annual veterinary checkup, during which she would undergo a series of blood tests, one of which — called a chemistry panel — would meticulously measure the levels of various chemical substances in the animal’s blood. …

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