Veterinary Cat Owner Essentials in Kennett Square
Getting Your Cat to the Vet:
Cat owner essentials include access to veterinary resources to ensure your pet's health. To minimize the stress of taking your cat to the vet, check out these helpful tips:
Vet Visit Checklist
Tips for Visiting the Vet
Tips for Stress Free Vet Visits
Educational Videos
Environment, Behavior, and Enrichment:
Understanding your cat’s natural behaviors and needs is crucial to providing cat owner essentials for a happy, healthy feline. Here are resources to enhance your cat's environment:
Indoor Cat Needs
Understanding Cats
Cat’s Environmental Needs
Feline Life Stressors
Living with Clawed Cats
Alternatives to Declawing
What and How to Feed Your Cat:
Choosing the right cat food is one of the primary cat owner essentials. Opt for brands that conduct feeding trials to ensure nutritional value, such as Royal Canin, Science Diet, and Purina. Learn more about making informed food choices.
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Litter Box Management:
Understanding why a cat has stopped using their litter box is crucial to executing a plan to correct this behavior.
Feline House Soiling
Brushing Your Cat’s Teeth:
Brushing your cat’s teeth may be one of the lesser-known cat owner essentials but is crucial for their health.
How to Guide
Giving Your Cat Medication:
Pharmacy
Safety Tips:
Every cat owner essentials list should include ways to keep cats safe throughout the year:
Feline Heartworm Disease:
Feline Heartworm Disease has been shown to occur in both indoor and outdoor cats. There is no treatment for heartworm disease in our feline patients, therefore, prevention is our only means of managing this disease.
To learn more about heartworm disease, visit The Heartworm Society.
Recommended Yearly Preventatives:
Keep your cat protected with recommended preventatives. Key cat owner essentials include:
Revolution Plus (topical) – Heartworms, fleas, ticks and some intestinal parasites
Seresto Collar — fleas and ticks
Frontline Plus (topical) — fleas and ticks
Drontal (tablet) or Profender (topical) — intestinal parasites
NexGard (topical)
Introducing a New Cat to the Household:
Tips for introducing a new cat to your household.
Introducing a New Cat
Introducing Cats to Each Other
Senior Care Recommendations:
Regular health care is especially important for older pets. Diseases caught early are often more easily managed and may have better outcomes.
Special Considerations for Senior Cats
Understanding Your Pet's Test Results
Pet Bereavement: Coping with the Loss of Your Pet
How to cope when you have to say goodbye.
Samhsa
Penn Vet
Lap of love
Groomers:
Cat Connections LLC
Boarding Kennels:
Wyeth Meadows Doggy Inn
Best Friends Pet Care
Wagsworth Manor Pet Resort
Vixen Hall Kennels
Dogtopia of Elsmere
Rebel Ridge
Pet Sitting Services:
Pet’s Best Friends
For the Love of Dogs LLC
Local Cat Owner Essentials:
Giggy Bites
Other Excellent Online Resources:
Cat Friendly
Fear Free Happy Homes
Fundamentally Feline
