We have been trained for the last several generations to think that cats graze their food. If you leave a dish of dry cat food out, watch a cat: your cat will come, have a few bites. Go away, come back a while later. Have a few more bites. And do this throughout the...
FIV, Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, is a virus in cats that is similar to human HIV. Usually, cats are infected early in life but don’t become clinically sick for years; these cats are usually diagnosed by routine blood testing. The virus hangs out in the immune...
Anytime there is a behavior change in our dogs, or cats, it’s a signal that there’s a problem going on. Because they don’t have little red lights telling us where the problem is we have to try to figure it out, and they have to try to figure out how to tell us. It is...
Depending on what flea medicine you used, some are more likely to cause seizures than others. Certainly the over the counter spot on products that are based on pyrethrins are known to cause seizures in sensitive dogs. In fact, I have seen small dogs and cats have...
The answer depends on what has already been done. Has your kitten been dewormed? If not, you might get that done with a dewormer that gets hook, whip, and round worms. Most dewormers at the pet store only deworm against roundworms. Did you just change your kitten’s...
