As a beloved member of your family, your senior cat deserves the best care possible. As cats age, their health needs become more complex, making regular visits to the vet clinic essential. Understanding what to expect during these visits can help ensure your feline friend remains happy and healthy in their golden years.
Understanding the Importance of Vet Visits for Senior Cats
Just like humans, cats experience various changes as they age, including decreased mobility, dental issues and potential organ dysfunction. Read More»
Vaccination is crucial to pet healthcare, protecting against harmful and potentially life-threatening diseases. Beyond safeguarding individual pets, vaccination also plays a significant role in maintaining community immunity, also known as herd immunity. Ensuring a high vaccination rate among pets creates a shield of protection that benefits the entire population. This blog post explains the importance of community immunity in pet vaccination and its broader impact on pet health.
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Many pet cats are perfectly able to regulate their own food intake, but others have not quite mastered this skill. Whether because they’ve become adept at begging for more or simply better at pinching morsels from your plate, many cats can easily become overweight. This can result in several serious health issues, including diabetes, urinary tract infections, heart disease, and arthritis, so it’s clearly something you’ll want to avoid.
With that in mind, here are just five signs your cat may be carrying a bit too much weight. Read More»
Lymphadenitis, or swollen lymph nodes, is common in guinea pigs. The lymph nodes are small, round organs found throughout the body and play a vital role in maintaining the immune system, which helps fight infection and disease. This article explains how a vet can diagnose and treat this condition in your pet.
What causes lymphadenitis?
Lymphadenitis is a condition that affects the lymph nodes and is triggered by a bacterial infection. Read More»
Desexing your male dog can bring some behavioural changes. Pet desexing isn’t going to significantly alter your dog’s personality, but the hormonal changes due to the removal of your dog’s reproductive organs (meaning they can no longer produce testosterone) may result in some differences. This is particularly relevant with any aggression they may show towards other (generally male) dogs—with this aggression being competitive in nature, and driven by testosterone. But what about when desexing seems to have an immediate effect on your dog’s self-confidence? Read More»
