This isn't just for your cat's benefit either. A healthy and happy cat is less likely to do things like pee on your stuff or tear you to shreds when you try a nail trim.
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Cats are masters of hiding pain. So here we're going to look at how to get around this and help our arthritic cats.
If your cat seems to be frequently trying to hack up a hairball or you can hear wheezy breathing, then it’s possible your cat has feline asthma. This can have serious consequences but is also highly treatable.
Cats have about half the cancer rate of dogs. But the cancers that cats get are more likely to be malignant. This combined with the fact that cats tend to hide illness well means that when we find cancer in cats it's…
Cat parvo (otherwise known as panleukopaenia) is caused by feline parvovirus. It's a small, single-stranded DNA virus (in case you're into virology and want to know how it replicates).
Chin acne in cats is known by several different names: feline acne, chin folliculitis and chin furunculosis. It’s not a teenage thing.
Despite all the info out there, confusion abounds. Here’s some facts.
When Ralph Wiggum told Lisa Simpson that his cat's breath smelled like cat food, he didn't know how lucky he was. Because cat breath can smell a lot more like... well, let's just say it can smell bad, really, really…
You'd have to be living under a rock not to have heard about the diabetes epidemic in people (one person in Australia develops diabetes every 5 minutes). Many people have diabetes for months or even years before they…
If this happens on the odd occasion, it’s gag-worthy but not really a medical issue. When it goes on and on, that’s a problem. Take a deep breath because we’re now going to explore diarrhoea in cats.
Hyperthyroidism is a type of hormone imbalance. Affected cats have too much thyroid hormone.
Even if only one is reported, the problems go together. Drinking more causes peeing more and peeing more causes increased thirst.
We’re all familiar with people who are allergic to cats. But cats can be allergic to stuff too (no, they don’t seem to be allergic to people). And when they are, they get itchy – this is called feline allergic skin…
Kidney disease (or renal disease) refers to when the kidneys are damaged and don’t do what they’re supposed to do (ie they fail).
Pancreatitis is a difficult disease to diagnose in cats. The signs are non-specific (eg lethargy, reduced appetite, vomiting and diarrhoea) and it can occur together with other conditions such as liver and gallbladder…
That's actually FLUTD, which stands for feline lower urinary tract disease.
First, an admission. Idiopathic is a fancy way of saying ‘we don’t know what causes this’.
You've probably seen or heard your cat having a spew... or you've stepped in a little pile of second-hand cat food. If this happens occasionally and your cat is otherwise fine, it's probably 'normal'.