Tag: Panleukopenia
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To scruff or not to scruff – do we handle cats well?
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How well we know our patients helps us handle them with the minimum amount of stress – but a few recent incidents have had me thinking about how well we really know cats. Head tapping Throughout my years in nursing, I’ve often seen people “head tapping” cats when they’re being restrained. I think the theory…
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Lost and found: why microchipping is a must
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One of our cats – Doogle, a home-loving feline who rarely sets foot outside the garden – recently got himself caught under my mum’s car, only to drop out when she’d driven along a few streets and run, startled, across the fields toward the next village. Posters, local press coverage and Facebook shares resulted in…