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That's truly a good question. And I'll be honest with you....

We don't always want to just throw medications at animals. We want to consider things like how they are at home. Are they eating too much?...

Sadly, no. Cats are what are considered obligate carnivores, meaning that they need to have a meat-based diet....

It definitely can, so I don't recommend feeding a lot of human food to cats and anything you do give them, do so in moderation....

I think that they're very effective. Lab tests give us answers to many of our questions....

The big one that we use here is a medication called Gabapentin. It's safe for almost all cats....

Yes, that's very important. And you want to try to do that the least confrontational way....

It is....

I would say 99% of the time, the answer is yes....

We like to do lab work a little more frequently in senior cats because they have a higher incidence of disease, most commonly kidney disease and hy...

Here at Countryside, you just call and make an appointment, and we just do it right on a regular examination appointment....

There are different types of medication and many different delivery mechanisms....

Some will have different answers to that question....

We collect the blood through the cat’s vein. We often do that from the back leg or perhaps from the jugular....

There are. There are some antihistamines that you can give to cats....

Baseline is your pet's normal. We know the general normal values on a lab screen, but it's what your pet's normal is....

I think that it’s a fabulous idea, and there's an excellent reason for that....

When you're looking at a kitten, outwardly, you can look for any upper respiratory signs....

Kitties are very stressed-out creatures in general, so we always try to minimize stressors as much as possible....

Kittens have a lot of energy, which isn't necessarily a bad thing....