This condition is similar to human Alzheimer’s disease and can be very upsetting.

By Ilene Springer

Cats and their human companions share many diseases in common. Diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease and arthritis are but a few in which treatment advances in one species can lead to advances in treating the other. No brain disease, however, made this list of common diseases until about five years ago, when a human-like disease was discovered in felines. In humans, the devastating condition is called Alzheimer’s disease; in cats a similar disease is known as feline cognitive disorder (FCD). …

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