Yes, your cat has to be intubated. When we clean the teeth, we use an ultrasonic cleaner....
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We can do imaging under anesthesia. So we can't do internal x-rays or 3-D imaging without anesthesia....
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At a minimum, your cat’s teeth should be examined once a year. We examine a cat's mouth and check the teeth every time the cat comes to see us....
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General anesthesia is very scary for us, but we do it very routinely. We know that monitoring is part of the safety of general anesthesia....
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At the Animal Hospital of Statesville, we have written out in a form that we talk about....
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Heart murmurs are diagnosed by listening to the heart by a stethoscope.
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This might involve surgery or something painful that we want the cat to be still and not feel that pain. We use anesthesia for dental procedures....
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This is an interesting question about the most important question, and I think we've answered some of those fundamental questions about how the cat...
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Whenever you're concerned, ask a veterinarian because it might be normal, or it might not be normal, and you may not know the difference....
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It depends on the type of cancer your cat has. Let's say it's a squamous cell carcinoma of the nose or the ear....
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In general, we tend to think about the Maine Coon. They are at higher risk for a heart disease called HCM, which is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy....
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Many times, we give pain medication before surgery, during surgery, and after surgery. And that would come in the form of injections....
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We have that listed on our website, but we also require the basic vaccines, the core vaccines for cats, which are rabies, and the kitty distemper, ...
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We typically see the peak effects of the acupuncture treatment around day three post-treatment....
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Those are normal behaviors in cats....
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I would make an appointment with the vet or at least call them because there are a lot of things that cats can do that might not seem like a proble...
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That's a tricky question to answer. I wish I could ask them....
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They sure can. That could be if they're left at home or in the boarding facility....
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To be quite honest, we're looking for anything abnormal....
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Yeah, we use medicine all the time for cancers, and we use surgery all the time, too. Again, it just depends on the type of cancer.
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