Pain, Stress, and Gabapentin
Pain management is an integral aspect of health care. Uncontrolled chronic pain is more than just physical pain, as it often causes significant emotional...
Are You Seeing Urine Spots?
Urinary incontinence is an involuntary leakage of urine. Most often, an incontinent cat is not aware that this leakage is happening. If you think...
Cat-Food Label Short Course
You want to do the best by your cat, including feeding her top-quality foods, but when you look at canned-food labels, you feel a...
Guidelines for Safe Pesticides Use in Cats
International CatCare (iCCare) and the International Society of Feline Medicine (ISFM) have embraced the worldwide concerns being raised about parasiticides used on pets and...
Warning Signs Of Cancer
While different cancers have varying warning signs, early symptoms can be general signs that something’s wrong. Some signs might indicate other illnesses as well,...
Feline Seizures
In a grand mal seizure, your cat collapses, loses consciousness, may roll or thrash, may urinate and/or defecate, and often vocalizes. Post seizure, there...
Detection of Heart Murmurs
Kudos to all who faithfully bring their beloved feline companions to the veterinarian every year for a wellness check. This is the best way...
Regulating Sugar Levels
Q:My 11-year-old neutered male has developed diabetes. We’ve been giving insulin twice a day for over a month now, starting out at 1 unit...
Most Common Heart Disease
It can be difficult to notice early heart disease in cats due to the fact that they are relatively sedentary and stoic in nature....
Shots: Choosing Is Confusing
Vaccines have played a huge role in the prevention of infectious diseases, both in humans and in animals, for hundreds of years. They’ve no...
At-Home Glucose Testing
Just as in humans, feline diabetes is a chronic disease in which the body cannot properly produce or respond to the hormone insulin. This...
Probiotics For Digestion
Probiotics are live microorganisms (mainly bacteria) that live in a healthy gastrointestinal tract. Supplementing probiotics is thought to help replenish the population of good,...