Not exact matches
September 11: Readers were moved
by the story of a Park Slope pet
owner who was reunited with his beloved
cat and shower buddy after putting up more than 1,000
missing cat posters around the area.
The inflammation and pain associated with arthritis can be
missed by many
cat owners and is simply lumped into the mistaken assumption that «Fluffy is just getting old».
Whenever a
cat owner arrives home after a long day of work, a
cat who has
missed them will get excited and show her affection
by walking quickly to the door with her tail straight up in the air.
The cause of vomiting that I think is most often
missed by owners because their
cats seem perfectly fine despite vomiting regularly, is a condition called inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
«Because
cat owners are around their
cats daily, subtle changes or gradual changes can be
missed,» says Dr. Joanne Gaines,
owner of Ridgeview Animal Hospital in Omaha, Neb. «Increases in drinking and urination and weight loss are the most common gradual changes we see, and those changes can be caused
by thyroid disease, kidney or liver disease or diabetes, most commonly.»
After you have read up on what to do if your animal goes
missing, you can also check our shelter for your animal
by clicking «Stray
Cats at CHS» or «Stray Dogs at CHS» which will display all of the animals at the Coastal Humane Society that have come in as strays - excluding those that were surrendered
by their
owners.
We also want to reinforce with
cat owners how critical chips are for them, as many
cats that go
missing may be harder to be viewed
by the public as «
missing» given so many ferals and strays.