Cat Health / Cat Products / health insurance / insurance / pet health insurance / Veterinarians
September 14, 2023
I felt that an infographic would be a great way to present the essentials of pet health insurance. I sometimes also feel that the insurance companies deliberately make things complicated to entice customers to...
behavior of veterinarians / Cat News / Veterinarians
September 10, 2023
NEWS AND COMMENT – Beckenham, Greater London, UK: This is shocking to me and many others. I’ll start with the picture which tells the entire story, actually. I don’t need to add many words...
Cat Behavior / Cat Food / Cat Health / feeding behavior / feeding characteristics / feeding domestic cats / kitten feeding / vomiting / vomiting
August 31, 2023
The answer to the question depends upon whether your cat is regurgitating or vomiting and the kind of vomiting which is taking place. Regurgitation needs to be differentiated from vomiting so we can get...
Cat Health / telemedicine / telemedicine / Veterinarians
August 1, 2023
Vet consultations from just £28. Resolve nearly 70% of pet care issues via a video consultation. Developed by vets. Joii Petcare app This is a heads up from me. I’m not getting commission from...
cancer / Cat Health / chemotherapy
July 16, 2023
I am not a veterinarian but I can rely on Ben the Vet on TikTok and other veterinarians to provide a good answer to the question in the title. And, actually, it is quite...
Cat Health / cat owner mistakes / Cat Products / hiding pain / Human to cat relationship / ownership / pain / software and websites
July 1, 2023
This is available right now online using a laptop. I’ve just used it. I used a photo of a Bengal cat that I had on file. He is not my cat. This cat looks...
brachycephalic skull / Cat Anatomy / noisy breathing and breathing difficulties / Persian cat / severe health issues
June 23, 2023
The Persian nose job is a ‘feline rhinoplasty’. Any wiser?! Yes, it is the enlarging of the nostrils to allow the flat-faced Persian to breath properly. It is ironic that the Persian cat breeders...
anxiety / bored / depression / drugs / trazodone
June 11, 2023
This is weird on two counts for me. Ben the Vet listened in on a phone-in agony uncle radio show in which it seems an American actor, Paul Rudd, dished out advice to a...
googling symptoms / home diagnosis / home treatment / symptoms
June 6, 2023
Can googling symptoms general make them worse? YES, is the easy answer. But it depends on who is doing the googling. If an inexperienced cat owner is googling their observed symptoms suffered by their...
added Xylitol / Cat Products / hard water / product reviews / Veterinarians / water / water fountain
May 28, 2023
In the video we see Ben the Vet on TikTok recommending a water fountain for cats which is very sophisticated. It’s worth a look at even if he is promoting it for a commission....
dangers to cats / F1 Savannah Cat / ownership / Savannah Cat / vaccinations
May 18, 2023
The answer to the question in the title is, YES. But the reason why I ask the question is because a lady on a page of mine about serval cats as pets said that...
Cat Health / cat teeth / cat welfare / dental health / pain / teeth
May 11, 2023
To almost everyone except veterinarians, this is a very unusual cat photograph. It shows the closed mouth and the nose of a tortoiseshell cat with a tooth protruding from the upper jaw into the...
cat breeders / Cat Breeding / contraception / informal cat breeding
April 30, 2023
There have been some contraceptive pills for cats available in the past but as I understand it, they produce side effects that were unwelcome and/or they are not a hundred percent effective which is...
Cat Anatomy / dangers to cats / foreign object / Injury / mouth / pain
April 23, 2023
The video shows the removal of the sewing needle from the back of a cat’s mouth by a veterinarian. Hard to watch. Some of the comments indicate that I am not alone in that...
anxiety / cat aggression / Cat Behavior / cat emotions / cat personality / cat stress / handling cats / petting / stress / Veterinarians
April 14, 2023
I was reading a section by Dr. Desmond Morris in his book Catlore and he suggested that sometimes domestic cats bite the hand that strokes them because of a traumatic experience they’ve had in...
