Keeping Your Cat Safe From Burns
Generally speaking, a cat who lives entirely indoors is much safer than one who spends time outside and can get hit by a car...
Where Will You Take Your Cat In an Off-Hours Emergency?
It’s 10 PM on a Sunday evening, and your cat starts having difficulty breathing. Or he begins having what seems like a series of...
Finding Oral Tumors Early
If a tumor is near the front of a cat’s mouth, you may see it even before your cat’s next scheduled wellness exam. But...
Undetected Rib Fractures
About half of rib fractures suffered by cats result from the kinds of mishaps you would expect — getting hit by a car, falling...
Curbside Care on the Uptick
Curbside care for cats — taking your cat from the car and examining her in the office while you wait outside — became more...
How Long is the Recovery Time?
When I come out of the operating room to tell clients how an operation went, one of the most common questions I get is...
New Treatment for Deadly Cancer
Oral squamous cell carcinoma is the most common oral cancer affecting cats, hitting the gums, tongue, palate, and tonsils. It’s hard to remove all...
Limb Amputation in Cats
One of the last things you want to hear is that your cat needs a limb amputated, either because an accident left it damaged...
No Time to Lose
You know that if your cat starts eating less or keeping to herself more, something might be amiss and you should schedule a doctor’s...
How Serious is the Heart Murmur?
Your vet tells you on each wellness visit that he detects a slight heart murmur when he listens to your cat’s heart beat with...
A Cat’s Three Major Poison Threats
On average, a cat is brought to the emergency room at Tufts’s Foster Hospital for Small Animals at least every other day as a...
Cancer Warning Signs
One in five cats ends up diagnosed with cancer, often in his geriatric years. Moreover, cancer in cats is three to four times more...
