03 Feb
Stepping up to the plate in Monroe County
East Stroudsburg “Operation Catsnip” scheduled on March 22, 2009
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Yes. We. Can.
Archive for the 'Feline Health' Category
09 Dec
Wake up, Pennsylvania
Letter to the editor, Wellsboro Gazette, August 29, 2007:
Killing animals is not the answer
To the editor:
For several years, I have been a volunteer at the Wellsboro (Marion Siemens) SPCA where once a week I help, mostly cleaning dog pens. Many times I have been asked if I find it emotionally difficult to week after week [...]
09 Jul
Pregnancy Testing for Cats
Lately I’ve become more involved in TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) projects in our area.
It’s always a challenge to determine whether a female feral cat is pregnant. I’m always in a state of anxiety, carefully looking at their profiles, thinking, “Oh, dear. She looks like she could be pregnant. Is she pregnant?” Given the opportunity, I would always [...]
27 Jun
Adjunctive Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Treatment Of a Severe, Non-healing Wound
INTRODUCTION
Necrotizing fasciitis is a progressive, generally rapidly spreading, inflammatory [...]
27 Jun
Fatal Streptococcus canis Infections in Intensively Housed Shelter Cats
P. A. Pesavento, M. J. Bannasch, R. Bachmann, B. A. Byrne and K. F. Hurley
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis (PP, BB); Shelter Animal Medicine Program, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis (MB, KH); Shelter Medicine [...]
19 Jun
Conjunctivitis common threat to young cats
by Christie Long
June 19, 2008
Madden and his brothers and sisters were living in a Dumpster, foraging for what little food they could find in the junkyard when they were discovered by a kind soul.
He was a dirty little gray fluff ball when I met him, tipping the scales at a scant 2 pounds and swiping [...]
10 Jun
Cerebellar Hypoplasia in Cats
SPASTIC CATS (CEREBELLAR HYPOPLASIA [CH], CEREBRAL PALSY etc)
Excerpted from “LIVING WITH A DISABLED CAT”
Copyright 1994, 2003 Sarah Hartwell
The term ’spastic’ may be considered politically incorrect, however cats have no concept of political correctness and this colloquial term (defined in my dictionary as “suffering from spasms”) covers several conditions with similar symptoms. I apologise to anyone [...]
07 Jun
Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV)
Cornell Feline Health Center
What is Feline Immunodeficiency Virus?
Virologists classify feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) as a lentivirus (or “slow virus”). FIV is in the same retrovirus family as feline leukemia virus (FeLV), but the viruses differ in many ways including their shape. FIV is elongated, while FeLV is more circular. The two viruses are also quite [...]
07 Jun
Feline Leukemia Virus in the Environment
Can FeLV survive in the environment?
It has recently come to the attention of the Feline Health Center (FHC) at Cornell that some cat owners who are caring for feline leukemia virus (FeLV) positive cats have strong but varying opinions about the survivability of FeLV in the environment. Does FeLV survive in the environment for any [...]
