A Michael Broad Blog
Is paracetamol toxic to cats? The answer is a resounding YES. This is a little story that underlines that sentence. Claire Pritchard had three cats: Midnight, Maisie and Moo-Moo. She lives in Bournemouth, England, UK, a nice seaside town on the south coast. One day Midnight came home with a limp. Midnight may have …
There is a nice cat picture on Flickr that the author kindly allows people to publish of her cat munching away on a bar of Cadbury’s Milk Chocolate. Her cat likes it but she warns of the dangers of a cat eating chocolate. I am surprised that a cat wants to eat chocolate. As for coffee…I …
I know this has been said a lot on the internet but it needs to be said over and over again because hundreds of cats are dying a painful death each year in the UK because their owners wanted to save some money by using a dog flea treatment on their cat. Or they …
This is a subject that concerns me personally and it should concern all people who care for a cat and who live in an apartment with common grounds that includes a lawn and where the cat goes onto the lawn. This will normally happen to people who occupy ground floor apartments and who have …
by Joyce Sammons (Hodges, SC, USA) Scrappy and Whiskers I’m writing this account of what happened to two of the most beautiful cats I’ve ever owned with the hope no one has to repeat this experience. Whiskers and Scrappy were brother and sister and I’d had them since the day they were born. They were …
by Michael (London, UK) Missy who may have died of poisoning – photo by RahelSharon (link base of page) The answer is yes but not always and there are antidotes if caught in time. Here is some detail from two perspectives (a) the type of poison and treatment and (b) remedies against the person …
Onions are toxic to cats – photo by Jim (Flickr) August 2010: A lot of things are toxic to cats or it seems that way. I wonder if more things are toxic to cats than humans. I don’t think so. We just have to think more about what is toxic to cats as we …
Plants poisonous to cats is something that all people, who live with cats, should at least me aware of. I have compiled two lists from separate sources. The first is from the well known and excellent book, Cat Owner’s Home Veterinary Handbook 4th edition pages 18 to 20 and by Drs Carlson and Giffin, …
