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Luckily our veterinarian was able to contact someone at KSU who said they will accept the "dirty" sample. Turns out it's an inherited problem with the breed of our dog - who knew!? Doodles is a mix breed of miniture schnauzer and mini poodle. Turns out that both mini schnauzers (dog) and Himalayan (cats) have a genetic predisposition for hyperlipidemia, which is causing the "cloudy" serum sample. KSU said they would accept her sample (yippie, thank you!) so if you have this problem, you should have your vet work with KSU because they were very helpful.
While I was preparing for this appointment I also called Animal Quarantine in Hawaii and spoke to a very nice woman who worked there to verify if Daisy needed a 9- or 15-digit microchip. She said the quarantine center has scanners that read multiple numbers, so Daisy's 9-digit AVID number will scan well with their AVID scanner. She also suggested that the vet should scan our dog to verify that her true number is written on the paperwork sent to KSU. She said many pet owners follow the quarantine rules to a T but still end up having their pet kept in quarantine when arriving in Hawaii for the simple mistake of a transcribing error of the microchip. I'm grateful she gave that suggestion because I would never have thought to ask our vet to double check the numbers were written down correctly. I trust our vet, but still don't want to chance poor Doodles getting stuck in a Hawaii animal quarantine for 120days due to a written number error - that would be terrible! So I worked with her vet and we made sure all numbers were correct. I love our vet!