Celebrate Take Your Cat to the Vet Day, August 22
For this one time, don’t listen to your cat! Celebrate Take Your Cat to the Vet Day, August 22
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Book Review: “Cat Facts: The A-to-Z Pet Parent’s Home Care Encyclopedia”
Most of my readers would know I began rescuing cats in the early 80s and continue to today, usually having
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Winter Tips for Pets Outdoors
Even wild animals who live exclusively outdoors need protection in this weather, so of course pets who go outdoors even for just a walk need special care; community cats need shelter, food and unfrozen water.
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Breast Cancer Awareness for Cats—Spay Early
Rescued kitty Gracen lived nearly all her 10+ years owned but unspayed, living outdoors bearing kittens no one wanted. Finally
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Culture Ringworm Infections Faster, Save Lives
This must be the year for ringworm to show up among rescued kittens. In all the years I’ve been fostering,
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World Rabies Day September 28: Rabies in Your Back Yard
The photo above is from last autumn. While I’ve always been aware that we shared our little habitat with raccoons
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August 22, Take Your Cat to the Vet Day!
Tomorrow, August 22, is “National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day”. It’s certainly a day that cats aren’t thrilled
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99 Lives Cat Genome Sequencing
Cat genome sequencing might seem a frivolous or unimportant thing, but it’s actually already benefiting not only feline health in
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Finding Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of FIP
Feline Infectious Peritonitis or FIP is notoriously difficult to diagnose. The effusive form causes fluids with a specific color, nature
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A Study of Immunity to Rabies After Expired Vaccines
We are lucky in the U.S. that rabies among our domestic animal companions is rare, though not unknown. This is
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