Vet Consultation:

  • All Cats should have a veterinary examination minimum of once a year. It is essential to evaluate the state of health of pets and detect in time any alteration, no matter how small, and thus be able to treat it correctly, preventing suffering and improving the cat’s quality of life.
  • In addition, this is much cheaper than ending up in a regular or emergency clinic with a fully developed medical pathology due to the lack of early detection.
  • In turn, it allows us to keep up to date with the preventive plans for infectious and contagious diseases, parasitic so crucial for our cats.
  • Some cats need frequent if they present a health condition (Heart conditions, allergic disease, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, etc.) that is convenient to follow.

Cat Evaluation:

  • Health history (vaccinations, diseases, accidents, others).
  • Routine life (status in a home with the owner and other pets, exercises, visit to another place.
  • Conduct or Behavior (fears, aggression with other pets, repetitive behaviors, others).
  • Nutrition: types of food, dry, wet, home food, frequency of administration.
  • Physical examination (inspection, palpation percussion, auscultation), including:
  • Dental exam (to discard: Dental disease, Broken or chipped teeth, Abscesses or infections, Cysts, Tumors, Bite misalignment, Dental pain).
  • Pain assessment (cats cannot describe their pain, nor its location, we must discover it through their behavior, physical examination, and with the help of infrared images).
  • Body and muscle condition (It is directly related to the state of health of our cats, their breed, and lifestyle and can be expressed on a scale of 1/9, with 5/9 being the ideal weight).
  • Infectious and zoonotic diseases (all of them present symptoms related to their virulence and the organic systems they affect, many of which can be lethal to our cats.
  • Parasite prevention and control (external and internal parasites).
  • Genetic, breed, and age considerations (necessary to discover predisposition to different noninfectious diseases).

Diagnostic plan:

  • Heartworm and internal and external parasite testing at less than one year (heartworm test, fecal flotation, fecal cytology, skin scraping, others).
  • Retrovirus (FLV: Feline leukemia and FIV: Feline Immunodeficiency).
  • Other diagnostic tests (CBC, Blood chemistry, urinalysis, body, and dental x-rays).
  • Disease screening tests (if will be justified with the history and physical exam).
  • Genetic screening test (to detect any disease predisposition).

Therapeutic and Preventive plan:

  • Behavioral recommendations.
  • Nutritional recommendations (prescription or regular diet according to the health necessity).
  • Dental recommendations (dental cleaning procedure, teeth extractions, special diets).
  • Heartworms, intestinal parasites prevention (prescription drugs in tablets or injectable would be recommended with different frequencies of administration)
  • Fleas control (topical prescription drugs with administration frequencies once a month).
  • Therapeutic recommendations for specific diseases (Management of the life, nutritional, homeopathic remedies, chemistry drugs, surgical, others).
  • Immunization with core vaccines (Rabies virus, Feline panleukopenia virus, Feline herpesvirus-1, Calicivirus, for kittens, feline leukemia virus).
  • Microchipping (It allows us to identify our pets in case they are lost if they are registered with their microchip on the web pages indicated for it.
  • Spaying or neutering procedures unless specifically intended for breeding purposes.
  • Exceptional Immunization with non-core vaccines for specific epidemiologic situations: FeLV (for cats older than one year), Chlamydia felis, and Bordetella bronchiseptica vaccines).
  • Exceptional preventive recommendations for specific epidemiologic situations (quarantine, specific medications, others).

Recheck plan:

  • Plans for follow-up based on assessment and care recommendations.
  • Expectations for subsequent visits (answer to the treatment, evolution of the disease, quality of life, other).