No, it's an age-dependent necessity. Those younger kittens that are purely on milk at that stage in their life need to be bottle-fed....
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No. Regular milk can cause diarrhea or an upset stomach. If you're bottle-feeding, we would recommend kitten formula.
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There are so many commercially-made pet foods out there. It's hard to go wrong these days....
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That kind of goes into some of the stuff that we already talked about, setting them up for success by not ever allowing your hand or other body par...
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We recommend starting around six to eight weeks, and then we recommend that they come back every three weeks for boosters....
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Depending on what vaccine they miss and where they are in their series, we can get them back on track appropriately; it just varies as to what was ...
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If it's with its mom and it's a newborn kitten, I would encourage you not to—at least not to do a lot of handling....
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It's a great question....
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Yes, we recommend core vaccines for your kitten because... I'll just tell you a personal story. My cats are indoor cats....
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So that depends. When kittens are younger, they need smaller, more frequent meals....
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It's completely preventable if you are diligent about giving it at the recommended time....
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In my experience, I'm going to say no, because again, most of the medications I'm using to prevent are combination medicines that also do fleas, ti...
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The core vaccines are vaccines that are required for all cats, no matter what their lifestyle is....
Can prevention be used to control heartworm in a cat or to cure it? - Animal Hospital of Statesville
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It can prevent it. I don't think the research has been done out there yet to see if chronic prevention eventually treats or kills the heartworm....
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Non-core vaccines are the opposite of what I just described....
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That's also hard to say....
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Keeping your cat indoors will greatly reduce the risk because you're going to have fewer mosquitoes in your indoor environment....
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If we don't prevent heartworm, the chronic lung disease in cats will eventually become resistant to treatment and become fatal....
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There are not. Vector and mosquito control can help, but still, those preventative products are essential....
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I would recommend waiting until they have that last vaccine series with their rabies because that's going to be the way they're going to contract i...