Weight and Muscle Loss
Q: I am looking for guidance on how to support muscle/weight loss in an almost 16-year-old cat with stage II chronic kidney disease (CKD)....
Disguising Dietary Proteins
What You Should Know
If your cat suffers from food allergies or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), your veterinarian may recommend you switch him to a...
How to Adopt a Shelter Cat
Adopting a cat from a shelter is not just window shopping for the cutest face. It’s about matching with the cat whose personality best...
Ureteral Obstructions
If you or anyone you know has ever passed a kidney stone, you know how painful it is. If your cat starts passing a...
Non-Surgical Sterilization
Developing a one-time, easy-to-administer, low-cost pill or injection has become the holy grail of feline sterilization. While we’re not quite there yet, we do...
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- All Vaccinations in One Day
- Cornell University Bird Flu Resource Center
- Gel/Electric Feline Pheromone Delivery Systems
- Suffering in Silence
- Three Steps to a Sleek Cat
- Hypertension: A Silent Killer
- Asthma Is an Allergic Disease
- Female Cat Losing Weight
All Vaccinations in One Day
Staggering vaccinations, or stretching the time between the vaccine injections, means the cat would, for example, get distemper/calicivirus/herpes on one day and then feline...
CKD and High Protein
A new study looked at how various metabolites are altered with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in cats. The study involved 94 cats with CKD...
Cornell University Bird Flu Resource Center
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as “bird flu,” is circulating in the United States and much of the world. This strain...
Gel vs. Electric Feline Pheromone Delivery Systems
Feline pheromones may help reduce stress in cats, and a recent study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science compared the gel diffuser Zenifel with...
Suffering in Silence
Many cats develop oral issues as early as young adulthood. Oral problems, including dental disease, can be painful. But, of course, cats have a...
Three Steps to a Sleek Cat
We all know that being overweight predisposes our cats to many health problems. But transforming your chubby couch potato into a sleek feline takes...