Pet Blood & Urine Tests in Melbourne
A simple, safe, and powerful way to understand your pet’s health.
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What are pet blood and urine tests?
A simple pet blood sample can provide a wealth of information about your pet’s internal systems, including the liver, kidneys, immune system, red and white blood cells, electrolytes, and blood sugar levels.
Urine analysis helps detect infections, assess kidney function, monitor diabetes, identify crystals or stones, and check for inflammation or bleeding. It’s also used to track pets on long-term medication or with chronic conditions, often revealing illness before symptoms appear.
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Routine blood tests
Each pet has their own unique baseline or “normal” values.
By establishing these while your pet is well, we can more easily spot subtle changes early on, allowing for earlier detection and intervention if illness develops later in life.
Diagnostic pet blood tests
With just one sample, we can gather a wide range of information about your pet’s health.
Depending on your pet’s symptoms, we can also check for other issues for amore accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.
Pre-anaesthetic blood tests
We hope for normal results but use any findings to tailor anaesthetic care and recovery, sometimes postponing procedures if needed.
All results, normal or not, provide valuable information for your pet’s medical records.
Medication blood tests
Regular testing helps us detect any early changes in organ function or response to treatment, allowing us to adjust medication doses or types as needed.
The goal is to keep your pet feeling their best, optimising their treatment plan for safety and efficacy.
Routine Pet urine tests
Many samples can be collected at home using a clean container, and we offer special litter kits for cats to simplify collection.
When more accuracy is needed, urine may be taken directly from the bladder under brief sedation for clearer results.
Why would a pet blood or urine test be needed?
- When your pet is showing signs of illness
- Before surgery or anaesthesia
- To monitor long-term medications
- As part of senior pet health checks
- To establish healthy baseline values when your pet is well
FAQs
Ideally, a blood sample is taken when a pet is fasted. It is not essential, we will discuss this with you at your appointment
Most pets hardly feel a thing. Our veterinary team is highly skilled in gentle handling and distraction techniques as well as proficient blood sampling - together this makes the process quick and easy for all involved.
Yearly routine blood tests are really useful to keep your pet happy and healthy into their senior years. One year for a dog or cat equates to several human years and much can change in this time.
If they are unwell, are undergoing anaesthetic or are on long term medication a blood test is often recommended at the time of the check up.
Yes, usually we will be able to take a blood sample and urine sample within a consultation.
Our vets will go through the results in detail with you, and depending on what is wrong discuss options for you and your pet going forward.
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Step towards better pet health
Blood and urine testing, combined with in-house diagnostics and compassionate care, are key to helping your pet live a longer, healthier life.
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