OWNER TIPS
Easy Home Urine Tests
The right equipment to collate the results from your cat’s home urine tests will make a dramatic difference towards her recovery from diabetes. The 2nd in my series…
Need to start at the beginning? Read collecting feline urine samples before taking the steps on this page. The article following covers interpreting the results.
Using a dipstick kit to measure glucose and ketones
You will need this dipstick kit for checking how your cat’s diabetes is going. These dipstick measure glucose and ketones.
The sticks need to keep kept cool and dry,
Feeding Your Cat Healthy
Help – I’ve got a normal cat and I don’t know how to feed it!
It seems to be a pretty complex problem feeding a normal cat – and it shouldn’t be! Cats have existed on table scraps and mice for generations, so what has changed? Why so many choices? What is PURR-fect for MY cat?
Although not a complex problem, it isn’t something that can be explained in soundbites, so please do read all the content of this page.
We’ve Changed Our Cats
Well, the reality is that cats are biologically adaptable, within certain
Testing Cat Urine at Home
Feline urine tests using multiple instead of the standard 2 pad stick, provide a wealth of knowledge if you are keen to know more about your cats health.
How to prepare a cat’s multipad dipstick:
- Before you remove the dipstick from the bottle, read the instructions!
- The dipsticks need to be kept cool and dry, so just select one at a time, touch only the ‘plastic’ end, and put the lid back on (with the dehydrating sack still inside!).
- SIT THE DIPSTICK FLAT ON A PIECE OF ABSORBENT PAPER, or the next
Inflammatory Bowel Symptoms and Treatment
Dr. Kim’s Feline IBD Facts
The hallmarks of IBD are frequent vomiting (weekly or more) with weight loss.
Other conditions cause similar symptoms, so any loss of weight or increased frequency of vomiting (more than once every week or two) needs to be thoroughly checked out by your cat vet.
If your pet cat is experiencing feline inflammatory bowel disease symptoms, changing the diet is a good way to test progress.
Why your pet cat may have feline IBD
Diet and Nutrition are of increasing interest to cat owners (it
Flea Proofing Your Home
Here’s how to go about feline flea proofing your home as an essential part of protecting your cat and yourself from the dangers of cat fleas.
As I am sure you know, fleas love your carpet and furnishings almost as much as they love your cat!!! And it’s not all about keeping a clean home. If your cat strolls outside, even for only a few moments, they can bring back a colony of fleas who will love to share your accommodation.
The real perpetrators of the problem are not the fleas but their
Coping With Feline Diabetes at Home
o unfortunately, your beautiful pet cat has feline diabetes. But you can make a big impact on her recovery by consistent, quality monitoring and tests.
Monitoring feline diabetes treatment at home
By the time you need to begin monitoring Fluffy’s progress in your cat friendly home, your vet will have already discussed your options with you.
(By the way, the issues are the same whether you are dealing with elderly cat health problems or geriatric felines. I also recommend you read my article about the difficulties vets face when treating diabetes, for extra clarification).
Are
Spotting and Managing Health Problems in Older Cats
Elderly cat health problems are as varied as their genetics. Here’s some preventative maintenance steps that you can control and maintain…
Prevention is far better than the cure
Your elderly cat needs extra care and attention, because she has fewer reserves and metabolic resources to draw on.
This means that when you perceive elderly cat health problems, they cannot cope for long without specific advice for you and veterinary intervention.
An excellent way to prevent sudden emergencies or a preventative rapid deterioration is to seek regular elderly cat reviews with your vet.
So,
Caring for a Diabetic Cat
Owning and caring for a diabetic feline can be time-consuming, moderately expensive, but very worthwhile. Visiting the vet is only the beginning…
Bringing ‘Fluffy’ Home
So you have been to the vet and understand the challenges faced by your cat friendly vet when assessing the
Now, how do you accommodate the outside or inside house cat care?
Whether your feline friend is a moggy or posh pusscat, she is very dependant on you.
Somehow you have to make life comfortable for both you and Fluffy while the treatment is underway.
This is definitely one more
How Useful is a Diabetic Diet For Cats?
How the right diabetic cat food, including the ‘Catkins Diet’ can keep the feline pancreas in working order and support feline weight management.
The Big Picture
Feline diabetes is a difficult problem to live with, so prevention is better than having to look after a cat that needs injections twice a day.
One of the most interesting recent developments is that diabetic cats respond quite well to dietary management and there are new commercial diets developed to help.
The key change in thinking is to replace carbohydrates (CHO) with protein and to have a moderate
How To Remove Cat Urine
Knowing how to remove cat urine from your home can appear impossible. This section covers permanent removal of cat urine odor and stains using homemade or commercial solutions.
Why is your cat peeing on your furniture?
I realise that you have arrived here to find some Feline Friendly ways for removing cat urine. But before I get into the actual cleaning process there are a couple of important points I need to highlight so you can prevent it from being an ongoing problem
There are some fantastic cat urine cleaning products that are available, as
Collecting a Urine Sample at Home
This is Part 1 of my series on how to collect a cat urine sample at home. Part 2 covers the testing and measurement of urine samples with a particular focus on managing diabetic felines. Learn More…
What’s the best litter for collecting cat urine?
So, you have to collect your pet cat’s pee at home? It seems like “yuck” if you haven’t done it before, but collecting samples at home is particularly valuable for tracking the recovery from diabetes mellitus but you may also be asked by the vet to
Removing Cat Pee Odour
Cat Urine Odour is always a message and never a mistake. Watch out for your feline friend’s wellbeing while you begin feline urine cleaning!
Ok, so you got the pee-mail message – cat urine on the wall, floor or carpet, clothes or sports bag. Your cat has urinated on something other than the litter tray, and you want to get rid of the cat pee smell.
But before going into the details of how to remove cat urine smell from your favorite piece of furniture or the carpet, you will need to understand
Cat Urine Detection
Cat urine detection goes way beyond following your nose and is now in the realm of CSI
No matter how much you love Fluffy, it is still really hard to live in a home where you need to constantly spend time detecting cat urine. So, to facilitate the quiet enjoyment of your common abode, the following are some useful insights into how to remove cat urine and the lingering smell from carpet, leather, furniture, wooden floors and walls.
How to find the cat pee
There are four ways to remove and clean cat
Eliminating Travel Anxiety
Would you rather have root canal dental treatment than transport your cat in a carrier? Are you both suffering from cat travel anxiety? Help is at hand, but it does rely on your efforts.
Getting your cat into a pet carrier takes just a little preparation
Your pet cat needs your help to get the help she needs from the vet. If she (and you) suffer from cat travel anxiety then now is the time to get you both into training and relieve the stress of getting a cat into the carrier.
The
Cat Teeth and General Health
Removing cat teeth can have some surprising effects on feline health and wellbeing. This page introduces the idea of feline teeth removal for owners and vet professionals.
Pixie is about 4 years old and has experienced ‘young cat gingivitis’ that leads to the erosion of the enamel. As there is nothing that can be done to save the teeth I have needed to remove them. This article features the full feline friendly process!
Why even young cats need their teeth removed
You may regard this as an unnecessary procedure, especially if the cat is