Learn Common Health Problems for Cats

Series Summary

Your pet cat is much more than just an animal. Our pets are our loved ones, our friends, and sometimes our children. For almost a thousand years mankind has been drawn to cats for their affectionate and dignified nature, companionship and keen hunting skills. Properly caring for cats is important, since we have domesticated these animals from the wild and taught them to expect to have their needs met by humans. In order for the pet-human relationship to work, we have to do our part.

In this free instructional video series, you’ll learn basic cat care, including some of the most common feline afflictions, what to do when your cat suffers an injury or illness, and the difference in what can be treated at home and what is best left to a professional veterinarian. Whether you’re dealing with an upper respiratory infection, or just don’t know what to do when your cat decides to ingests that piece of string he or she can’t resist playing with, the tips and advice in these video clips will help ensure your cat lives a long and healthy life.

Video Transcript

" Hi! I am Dr. Adrienne Mulligan. I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic. I am here today on behalf of expertvillage.com, and I am here to talk to you about taking care of cats with critical conditions, critical emergencies and health issues. There are some other diseases that your indoor-outdoor cat can bring home, or your new stray kitty could bring home to you, that can look pretty serious and might need to go to the vet, but you might be able to do some things at home for. One of them is internal parasites. Internal parasites include worms, and those are usually…there are several worms, some you might see come out in the stool, and some you might not, and the other is upper respiratory diseases. And one of these upper respiratory diseases is a herpes virus that they carry all their life that they get from when they are kittens. So we will go over these in a little more detail, and the internal parasites, you can, if they are the ones that you see, if the cat just has diarrhea, and you wonder if it is parasites, then you can go to your local feed store without hurting your cat any, and getting a de-wormer over-the-counter, and generally those are very safe for kittens, as long as they are labeled safe for kittens. And you can try that, and if the diarrhea clears up, you are in good shape. If the diarrhea does not clear up, then you need to get to the vet. "