Glad to hear he was eating and no blood today, that's good news!

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He also mentioned that most vets don't run a 13 panel test they only run a 6 panel test.
I think it depends on the vet.

Where I work for general blood screening we run 6 panel tests (ALT, ALKP, BUN, CREAT, GLU, TP), those usually cover most of the basics of liver, kidneys, and glucose. If the vets have reason to think a specific thing is wrong, or require more in depth testing they'll add more tests. And there's a whole bunch of them they can add if they need to. We generally do ours in house so we have results faster, but there are times when we need alot of answers, it's more cost effective for the client to send the lab work out.

I have seen faxed records from other places where they typically run anywhere from 8-12 tests, or even send in all their lab work to an outside lab which runs way more tests than that.

So I still think it depends on the vet.