No veggies, thank you

The various mammals belonging to the order Carnivora are meat eaters, but most of them will eat fruits, vegetables and other plant matter. (...

Feline seizures

A cat with rabies is viciously, dangerously mad, but only slightly less frightening is a cat with feline epilepsy, also called rolling-skin ...

Are they really finicky over food?

First, Lang’s Law of Feeding Cats: if your cat is really really hungry, she will eat whatever canned or dry food you put in front of her. Th...

Charity with caution

Cat owners are generally charitable toward all cats, but there are situations where this can lead to trouble. One situation that is potentia...

The rabies race

dogs . With less fear of rabid cats (and perhaps less community concern for cats in general), cases of rabid dogs declined while cases of ra...

Dog food, yes, but not regularly

food . Probably one incentive to do this is that dog food is generally cheaper than cat food. While it won’t hurt the cat to eat dog food no...

Ten days of madness

rabies , you won’t soon forget it. Rabies, sometimes called hydrophobia, is a swift-moving disease of the nervous system. Normally it is tra...