Dear Puppy, Please Don't Drink So Much Water Or You Might Seizure?

So this is some interesting stuff – well, I think so anyway! I want to thank my good friend Kate Russell for raising this with me as well. The basic question at hand here is can a puppy drink so much water in a single episode as to cause water intoxication and a hyponatraemic seizure?

PCV vs. HCT, TS vs. TP

Measuring manual packed cell volume (PCV) and refractometric plasma total solids (TS) has long been part of the emergency database; moreover these parameters are often reassessed during hospitalisation.