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Why You Should Weigh Your Cat Once a Month

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Weighing your cat on a regular basis is one of the easiest ways to monitor her health.

Gradual weight loss or gain is often not noticeable in cats until it has become quite dramatic. Consider that the average cat weighs 10 pounds. Weight loss of only 6% of a cat’s body weight is considered a clinical sign – that’s less than ten ounces. Depending on the size of your cat, visible changes to her weight may be too subtle to notice without actually weighing her.

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Happy Easter

Happy Easter from Allegra and Ingrid

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Mews and Nips: Easter Lilies are Highly Toxic to Cats

Our lead feature of this week’s round up is my annual warning about Easter Lilies. Ever year, I’m surprised how many cat parents still don’t know how deadly these flowers can be to cats. Just one small bite of a flower, leaf, stem or pollen of this plant, or even drinking from the water they’re kept in, can cause gastric distress, and, more importantly, if left untreated, can lead to fatal kidney failure. For more information, please read my full post here and please spread the word!

If you mi...

Supakit Cat Harness and Leash Winner

Congratulations, Patricia Caradonna! You’re the winner of a harness and leash from Supakit.

Look for an email from Ingrid.*

For more information about Supakit and to purchase, visit https://supakit.co/

*Winners are selected by random drawing. Winners need to provide a physical address to which the prize will be mailed within 72 hours of receipt of notification e-mail or announcement of winner’s name(s) on The Conscious Cat. If this information is not received within the time frame stated, an ...

Have You Played With Your Cat Today?

Play is vitally important to a cat’s mental and physical health, and it’s especially important for indoor cats. Even though cats may sleep up to 16 hours a day, when they’re awake, they need stimulation, and the best way to accomplish this is with play. In the wild, when lions, tigers and other wild cats aren’t sleeping, they’re either hunting, or teaching their young to hunt. And play is nothing more than channelng your domestic tiger’s hunting instinct into play.

Toys that simulate play and ...

12th Anniversary Giveaway Winner

Congratulations, Connie Fischer! You’re the winner of our 12th Anniversary Jackson Galaxy Prize Package Giveaway!

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A big thank you again to Jackson Galaxy for sponsoring this giveaway, and to all of you for  our wonderful comments and for being a part of our Conscious Cat community! We look forward to another year of bringing you all the information you need to keep your feline family members healthy and happy.

*Winners are selected by random drawing. Winners nee...

How to Cut Pills Easily and Accurately

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If you’ve ever had to cut small pills for your cat (or yourself,) you know how frustrating it can be. While there are endless models of pill cutters available online, I’ve found that none of them work well when it comes to cutting already small pills into halves and quarters.

Allegra gets 1/4 of a 5mg methimazole tablet twice a day. The pills are scored down the center, which makes cutting them in half with a pill cutter or sharp knife pretty easy, but when ...

Jackson Galaxy’s Cat Camp Spring Forward at Home

Jackson Galaxy once again brings the magic that is Cat Camp to the comfort of your own home. Cat Camp Spring Forward at Home will take place on Saturday, April 10, and it’s free!

Join Jackson for a springtime celebration of all things cats including enrichment for your cats at home (like clicker and harness training), environmental enrichment, care for community cats, kittens, fostering, fundraising, and more.! As with previous virtual Cat Camps, there will be an after party full of cat-themed...

AminAvast® Promotes Healthy Kidney Function and Supports Aging Kidneys

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When Allegra was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, one of the first things I asked my vet about was whether we should start her on AminAvast®.

The connection between hyperthyroidism and kidney disease

Hyperthyroidism can mask kidney disease because the excess thyroid hormone in the system increases renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate. Glomeruli are tiny filters in the kidney that remove waste and excess fluid from the blood. Once the thyroid is reg...

Ask the Cat Doc: Cat Does Not Like Being Picked Up, Skin Issues, and More

Welcome to our regular “Ask the Cat Doc With Dr. Lynn Bahr” segment! Once a month, Dr. Bahr answers as many of your questions as she can, and you can leave new questions for her in a comment.

Dr. Bahr graduated from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine in 1991. Unlike most veterinarians, she did not grow up knowing that she would become a veterinarian. “It was a cat who got me interested in the practice and I am forever grateful to him,” said Dr. Bahr. Over the course of he...