Keyword: cats

The cat is the most popular pet in Finland, but veterinarians there haven’t been able to find much in the medical literature about feline illnesses. So a research group led by the University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Centre decided to create their own feline health registry.

Cancer is now the biggest disease-related cause of death in dogs and cats, but there are an increasing number of therapies available to pet owners who want to prolong the lives of their affected four-legged friends. So the American Animal Hospital Association has issued new guidelines for veterinarians on how to properly diagnose and treat the disease.

Scientists at Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) at the University of Guelph have discovered that injecting a cancer-killing virus into the spleens of cats who have developed cancer boosts the animals’ immune response to the disease.

The world's domestic cats are getting older, but are they healthy? A new set of journal articles set out to answer that question.