Thoughts for Thursday – When Your Cat Gets Sick

We like to think that the little fur ball we bring home or the sweet cat we take into our heart will live happily ever after and beyond under our gentle care. However, sometimes cats do get injured and they can get sick. It’s your job as a kitty mama or papa to notice the sometimes signs that your cat is ailing and to get help. However, often the signs are subtle. Here’s a site that might help you determine when it is appropriate to call your veterinarian and what to tell him or her. https://www.petfinder.com/cats/cat-health/more-subtle-signs-of-illness-in-cats/

Some of the symptoms or signs you’ll want to watch for are changes—most any changes, actually. Most importantly, changes at the litter box—frequency, consistency, habits; changes in eating and drinking; changes in her sleep pattern; and in the way she interacts with you.

Here’s a site showing the most common diseases in cats. It never occurred to me that a cat would get diabetes (until I met one with it) or cancer (until one of our cats developed an incurable cancer in his throat.) https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/cat-care/common-cat-diseases

I hope your cat is healthy as we speak. In order to end this post on an upbeat note, I’d like to share this site. Here, you’ll find some fascinating and entertaining videos involving all kinds of animals. FUN! https://www.thedodo.com

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