AVMA/EveryCat Award for Viral Research
Dr. Brian Murphy, a professor at the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, was recently awarded the American Veterinary Medical Foundation/EveryCat Health Foundation...
FIP: Advances in Treatment
Until recently, the treatment of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) focused on providing supportive care and alleviating symptoms (see sidebar). For a cat with fluid...
Can I Give My Cat CBD Oil?
Q. I have been reading about the use of CBD oil for problems in people, and I have a 12-year-old cat that doesn’t eat...
Worry or Wait? Vomiting
Knowing what your cat has expelled from her stomach can give you clues as to whether it is a cause for concern. Hairballs are...
Dementia in Older Cats
A cat that lives to be 20 years old is the approximate equivalent of a 96-year-old person. And, unfortunately, many cats eventually show signs...
The Aging Cat Needs a Careful Eye
When we hear someone tell us our senior cat “looks really good for her age,” we might want to give some thought to that...
A URI With Extra Oomph
One of the most common causes of upper respiratory infection (URI) in cats is feline calicivirus (FCV). Cats kept at home and/or in a...
Spotting Soft-Tissue Trauma
Cats have 517 muscles, and they seem to find just as many creative ways to damage them. Whether it’s a leg caught in furniture,...
Kitty Litter and Disease Transmission
Enteric coronavirus is a highly contagious viral disease that is passed in the feces of infected cats, where it can then infect other cats....
Cardiac Gene Mutation in Sphynx Cats
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a devastating disease that causes the heart muscle to thicken and makes it less efficient. The disease is most prevalent in...
U.K. Food Recall
Feline pancytopenia is a potentially fatal illness characterized by a decrease in red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Since April 2021, veterinarians...
Happening Now…
Working Cats—The Treehouse Humane Society in Chicago released 1,000 cats to fight the city’s growing rat problem as part of its “Cats at Work...