Feline Medicine

Mary Berg, RVT, RLATG, VTS (Dentistry), demonstrates her preferred method of obtaining these images.

Three choices for the killer (literally) cat in your life.

An elimination diet trial is the only way to diagnose a food allergy in a dog or cat. Heres a step-by-step guide for selecting and conducting an elimination diet trial.

Novel drug treats hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the most common feline heart disease.

Your patients with this feline immunodeficiency virus can live full and healthy lives, with a couple of cat-veats.

Studying vet med and love cats? (Yes? Shocker.) Check out two new scholarship opportunities through the Winn Feline Foundation and the AAFP.

The feline sector is the biggest untapped growth opportunity for companion animal veterinarians. Here's how to become more feline-friendly (and how you'll benefit).

Some of us want attention when we're hurting. Clients should know their pets tend to bury the fact.

Keeping an occluded cephalic IVC in place is hard, but weve found the purrfect solution.

Mikkel Becker and Dr. Gary Landsberg demonstrate to train cats to a carrier.

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Each Veterinary Medicine Essentials package covers diagnostic steps, treatment plan guidance and the latest updates, plus resources to share with your entire veterinary team and your clients.

Each Veterinary Medicine Essentials package covers diagnostic steps, treatment plan guidance and the latest updates, plus resources to share with your entire veterinary team and your clients.

Each Veterinary Medicine Essentials package covers diagnostic steps, treatment plan guidance and the latest updates, plus resources to share with your entire veterinary team and your clients.

Each Veterinary Medicine Essentials package covers diagnostic steps, treatment plan guidance and the latest updates, plus resources to share with your entire veterinary team and your clients.

This busy feline practitioner keeps her life in balance on the back of a tandem bike.

From image quizzes to journal reviews and updated protocols, heres what your colleagues couldnt get enough of this year.

Feline heartworm has been diagnosed in all 50 states, and it was important enough the American Association of Feline Practitioners crafted an entire campaign about it. So why don't veterinary technicians talk about preventive care as much as we could?

Youve done these surgeries a million times (slight exaggeration). But youll likely glean something new from this veterinary practitioners take on the updated spay and neuter guidelines.

Medical issues, social factors and normal aging can all hamper a cats appetite. Heres what to do when a cat wont eat.

Downing describes her latest research on clinical bioethics and what it means for the veterinary professionand we nerd out, bigtime.

No, really. Kitties (and some dogs too!) will real relax in your veterinary practice if you just give them high spaces to perch.

In which we explore strange new zoonoses, seek out better diagnostics and new treatments, and engineer cats for world peace. (Really.)

Ohio State researcher optimistic that monthly injections could replace daily insulin in cats.

This feline urine sample collection system makes cystocentesis a second-place contender.

Shoddy leashes, old plastic bowls and crazy-dull nail trimmersdo the pet owners you serve know how harmful this junk can be? Use this tool to show them what to keep and what to toss.

Maybe he was just in pain the whole time. And the variety of products at your disposal to identify and treat pain in cats keeps expanding.

Study shows that longer use may be OK, even in cats with kidney disease, but more research is needed.

To save a kitten, a veterinary technician like me can't help but share good advice to see the veterinarian, whether it's in the feed store, the grocery store or anywhere. But sometimes trying to help just gets you a slap in the face (not literally).

Bone is pretty amazing tissueconstraining and directing the forces of muscle, and adapting under heavy loads. So, can you apply that metaphor to your client communication? Veterinary surgeon Dr. David Dycus explains how poor communication led to one super smelly cat, and offers tips getting clients to follow your fracture management recommendations.