Ditto that.
We lost our German Shepherd two year ago due to kidney failure.
He was nutered at the age of 8 months, regular checkups ... never , ever , any vet sugessted the blood work. I still, to this day, feel that should have we known better, and did the blood work at an early age, we could have prolong his life
That is why, thanks to YT and personal experience, Baby Bear already had two complete blood works done, at our request ( he is only 14 months old), and I plan to continue doing it every six months.