Wellness testing allows your veterinarian to better understand your pet’s unique health. They can compare results, track any changes, and find subtle patterns over time. This lets them customize your pet’s care to meet each need and achieve ideal health at every age.
By uncovering illness sooner, wellness testing can help you avoid costly and stressful emergency vet visits and prevent further painful, unpleasant, or even life-threatening complications. With prompt treatment, affected pets can enjoy a relatively normal life. Plus, early treatment is often less costly, making it easier to afford necessary care.
Ideally, your pet should be seen for a routine physical exam by your veterinarian once or twice a year, even if the animal seems perfectly healthy. Regular wellness checkups are important and help you and your vet team support your pet’s good health and happiness.
Annual check- ups ensure your pet stays up to date on core and life-style specific vaccines, reducing the risk of serious diseases. Your vet can also check for external and internal parasites, ensuring your pet isn’t carrying fleas, ticks, heart worms or intestinal worms that can impact their health.
As part of a complete wellness examination, your veterinarian will usually recommend wellness screening tests.
Wellness check- ups are the best times to ask your veterinarian questions. A good working relationship with your veterinarian means you can get answers to questions as they come up between appointments. But, if you only see your veterinarian during emergencies, there usually isn’t time or an established medical history to get answers to other questions you have.
