Modern methods make the procedure safe and beneficial for your cat.

By Tom Ewing

Virtually all feline surgical procedures, whether brief and relatively simple or prolonged and complex, require the patient to be anesthetized. And this can be as worrisome to a cat owner as the illness or injury that necessitated the surgical intervention in the first place. What are the chances that the animal, while surviving the operation itself, will fail to awaken afterward from its tranquil, drug-induced slumber?

The risks of anesthesia are minimal to a cat that is in good health. Blood tests are used to accurately determine this.

According to Lysa Posner, DVM, an anesthesiologist and lecturer at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, today’s cat owner has very little to worry about. …

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