The Veterinarians’ Guide to Your Cat’s Symptoms: Normal Cat Behavior Cats can be loving, affectionate companions. They are clean, soft, and small, are often cuddly, and are usually quiet and calm—a combination of traits that makes them especially ideal pets for older people and apartment dwellers. The fact that they do not need to be … Read more
The Veterinarians’ Guide to Your Cat’s Symptoms: Normal Cat Behavior Some Inappropriate Feline Behaviors Aggression Toward People An owner of an aggressive cat who had bite marks up and down his legs once coined a phrase, “the abused owner.” Some cats are extremely aggressive toward people. They may attack people without seeming provocation, and have … Read more
The Veterinarians’ Guide to Your Cat’s Symptoms: How to Keep a Cat’s Body Healthy Water There is a common belief that cats don’t require much drinking water because they can often obtain enough water from their food and seemingly drink very little. But, just like all living creatures, cats require water to replace fluids lost … Read more
The Veterinarians’ Guide to Your Cat’s Symptoms: How to Keep a Cat’s Body Healthy The current thinking is that a chemical called an adjuvant, added to these two vaccines to stimulate the immune response, is responsible for the tumor development. An adjuvant is not present in other cat vaccines. The incidence of these tumors is … Read more
The Veterinarians’ Guide to Your Cat’s Symptoms: How to Keep a Cat’s Body Healthy Just as is true in human health care, the best way to assure a cat’s physical well-being is to practice common sense care and preventive medicine. Proper veterinary care, immunizations against contagious diseases, nutrition that meets a cat’s needs at each … Read more
The Veterinarians’ Guide to Your Cat’s Symptoms: A Healthy Cat’s Body In this chapter is a short description of the various systems in normal, healthy cat’s bodies, touching on the differences between cats and humans and among cat breeds. The primary purpose of this chapter is to provide cat owners with a basis of comparison … Read more