No. Human food won't make your cat overweight....
Search
Doctor Answer
A couple of health needs that your senior cat may require are just regular vaccines, depending on the lifestyle, dewormings, preventative care test...
Doctor Answer
The simple answer to that one is that it can help reunite you with your cat....
Doctor Answer
Plan a visit to your veterinarian. Just a good physical exam will do, and then perhaps even taking a stool sample to check for intestinal worms....
Doctor Answer
Euthanasia would be us as veterinarians easing the passing of said cat, or maybe not easing, but causing the passing....
Doctor Answer
As for the options at home, oftentimes those will be oral medications....
Doctor Answer
That’s a conversation to have with your veterinarian....
Doctor Answer
Adult cats can hide things. So, that would be one reason to do a well check—to detect problems early and serve as a baseline.
...
Doctor Answer
For most medications, I would say yes. Even if you are using something common like flea treatment, you want to make sure it's labeled for the cat....
Doctor Answer
There are many different lab tests. We've talked about some of those....
Doctor Answer
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?...
Doctor Answer
That's an excellent question, and it’s one that a lot of people struggle with. It depends on your kitty and what they like....
Doctor Answer
The biggest thing is making sure that your kitten has a safe place to get comfortable within your home that is away from where the other pets are—w...
Doctor Answer
So food is love with our pets. Most kittens are pretty food motivated....
Doctor Answer
It depends on what the numbers are....
Doctor Answer
If you have a really food-motivated cat, you may be able to crush certain medications and hide them in canned food....
Doctor Answer
Always between the shoulder blades at the back of the neck....
Doctor Answer
It is a needle poke, so the cat reacts as they might to a vaccine....
Doctor Answer
So as far as that goes, we can prescribe some types of medications that are hopefully going to be a liquid because I know it's a little easier, but...
Doctor Answer
NSAIDs like the ones we humans use, such as Tylenol or Advil, can be very toxic to dogs and cats, especially if, as I said, we're not considering t...