(Ebook) Complete Care for Your Aging Cat by Amy Shojai ISBN 9780451207883, 0451207882

(Ebook) Complete Care for Your Aging Cat by Amy Shojai ISBN 9780451207883, 0451207882

An outstanding source of information about your aging cat’s needs is your veterinarian. Many times, though, he or she will only have a limited amount of time available during visits to answer your questions. That’s why today’s cat owners educate themselves about feline needs and arrive at the veterinary office armed with information gathered from research on the Internet, other pet owners, magazines and books—such as Complete Care For Your Aging Cat. You are reading these pages because you cherish the relationship you share with your older cat—whether he’s an active seven-year-old, or a mellow 17-year-old feline. Complete Care For Your Aging Cat not only offers great information about what physical and emotional changes mayhappen as your cat becomes a senior citizen, and how veterinary care can help, it also provides practical solutions to common problems, contact information for helpful products, educational and emotional support resources, and countless cost-saving home treatments. Owners of aging cats typically are willing to provide the extra care that keeps pets happy and comfortable. Medical help is a big part of that. Because many people are interested in alternative care in their own lives, a discussion of the pros and cons of “holistic” and conventional “allopathic” medicine for cats is covered in the book. Both approaches offer great benefits for senior cats, and combination therapies—called complementary medicine—may provide the greatest help. On the conventional side, veterinary specialists such as surgeons and oncologists usually cost more, but they offer cutting-edge care that many cat owners are willing to fund in order to keep their cats feeling good. In fact, repeated surveys by the American Animal Hospital Association(AAHA) indicate more than 70 percent of pet owners would go into debt for their pet’s well being. Yet cats get the short end of the veterinary stick.