I thought I would reproduce the blood panel report that I just got on my seven year old sable ferret - Myc. I had it done as a background as he is getting up there in years. Other than a mildly enlarged spleen, he seems to be healthy although at the time of his screen he had a slight fever and was a bit dehydrated. I'm providing the entire report and would love comments about the values and what each of the items mean in the way of a diagnosis. The only value for Myc that was wildly off from normal cat or dog was the AMYL and nobody seemed worried about this. Hope this and other people's info will help to give all of us a baseline to work from for older animals. A second visit to the vet to get a spleen aspirate showed immature blood cells in the spleen which is consistant with the non-lympho abnormal spleen seen in many older ferrets. Measured Dogs Cats Ferrets RBC (M/ul) 10.08 5.5-8.5 5-10 6.77-13.2 Hb (g/dL) 16.9 12-18 8-15 12-18.5 Hct (%) 42.7 37-55 24-45 36-61 MCV (fL) 42.4 60-74 39-55 42-55.9 MCHC (g/dL)39.6 31-36 30-36 26.9-35 RDW (%) 20.3 12-18 13-17 12-27 Retics(M/ul)^ 0-0.18 0-0.18 0.03-1.9 Pltlts(K/uL)298 200-500 150-500 297-910 Sodium(mmol/L) 150 140-159 Potssm(mmol/L) 4.8 3.5-5.1 Chloride(") 125 105-120 ALKP (IU) 64 30-400 10-200 AMYL (IU) 5 500-1500 500-1500 ALT (IU) 129 8-80 10-120 CHOL (mg/dL)72.5 110-320 65-255 TBILI(mg/dL)0.28 0-0.9 0-0.5 BUN (mg/dL) 29.2 7-27 16-36 PHOS(mg/dL) 4.43 2.5-6.8 3.1-7.5 Creat(mg/dL)0.61 0.5-1.8 0.8-2.4 Gluc (mg/dL)82.4 77-125 76-145 Cal (mg/dL) 9.2 7.9-12 7.8-11.3 TP (g/dL) 7.53 5.2-8.2 5.7-8.9 ALB(g/dL) 3.06 2.7-3.8 2.6-3.9 GLOB(g/dL) 4.47 2.5-4.5 2.8-5.1 Best wishes and good health to all of us (and especially fuzzies) for the new year! Max [Posted in FML issue 2171]