Feline Medicine

Teach cat owners what they can do to keep their cats happy and healthy this September.

Pass these tips on to your clients, and enhance the well-being of your feline patients.

A little trick plus lots of patience equals success.

How a 41-pound feline shrunk to 19 pounds-and how his success can help your overweight patients.

One investigator attempts to rein in the fearmongering about cats and toxoplasmosis.

Use this guide to take some of the stress and fear out of a chronic medical condition and offer support for pets and their owners.

Practical tips for working up and treating cats with urinary signs.

Help clients transport their cats to your practice with these tips.

Crinkling paper. Clinking glasses. Even deaf cats with a newly defined epileptic syndrome can suffer neurologic effects when exposed to sounds such as these.

This practice found the purr-fect cat climber for their feline patients. No kitten around. Fur real.

Veterinary behaviorist Dr. John Ciribassi says it depends on what the pet owner wants out of the relationship.

More cats may be affected by this disease than you think, and even cats with subclinical or mild forms may benefit from thyroid replacement therapy.

Heres a cats-eye-view of a feline fine exam where the cat gets the power to choose how he experiences a visit to the veterinarian.

Choose the right treats to make pilling a cat an easier proposition. Here's a quick snapshot of what might work.

It's not a surprise that chronic kidney failure tops list of feline illnesses.

How to make in-house blood glucose curves in cats comfortable for all.

Hear about the possible harmful effects of this practice.

A reader tip for positioning cats for abdominal surgery.

Look after your kitty with this expert advice.

States joins national conversation about increasingly controversial feline veterinary procedure.

The take-home on this one? Think retroviral when you see inflammatory oral disease in cats.

By recognizing physiologic, physical, and behavioral signs of pain and employing a consistent pain scoring system, veterinary teams can improve their assessment of cats in need of analgesic therapy. And by administering FDA-approved analgesic drugs in multimodal protocols, veterinarians can provide effective pain relief for their feline patients.

In this roundtable, experts in veterinary behavior, infectious disease, and feline practice came together to discuss way to improve preventive care of feline patients, including a discussion of the importance of effective parasite control and the use of flea and tick collars for cats.

Feline expert Dr. Margie Scherk shares her personal thoughts on this controversial issue.

No animal should live their life in fearespecially when it comes to normal life events, such as going to the veterinarian.

What to do when your veterinary client exclaims, My cat has something wrong with his face!

Presented by: Sheilah A. Robertson, BVMS, PhD, DACVAA,DECVAA, DACAW, DECAWBM (WSEL)

Veterinarians' dirty little secret, making more money through feline visits, and commentary from Dr. Elizabeth Colleran.