Cat Health Quiz

The pollen

The petals

The stem

All of the above

Lilies are not toxic to cats, only dogs

Onion

Sugarless gum

Grapes

Cucumbers

Raisins

Acetaminophen

Tylenol

Pepto Bismol

Benadryl

All of the above are safe

Advantage 2

Advantix

Revolution

Frontline Plus

All of the above are acceptable

Ingested drain cleaner 1 hour ago

Swallowed a tack 45 minutes ago

Ingested antifreeze 1 hour ago

Ingested a rodenticide toxin 2 hours and 15 minutes ago

Feline herpes virus is the most common upper respiratory infection that can go into remission and come back under stress. It may cause ulcers that develop around the cornea of the eye.

A cat that does not eat for 1-2 days may be prone to developing a liver condition known as hepatic lipidosis and jaundice that accompanies it.

Cats should always be treated with antibiotics and monitored for any changes in the clinical signs of upper respiratory infection such as sneezing, coughing, discharge, lethargy, and lack of appetite.

Feline calicivirus is most lethal, longest living upper respiratory infection in cats that may also cause stomatitis (mouth ulcers) similar to the ulcers that cats with feline leukemia can get.

Feline infectious peritonitis

Feline viral rhinotracheitis

Feline Amyloidosis

Feline calicivirus

Feline Immunodeficiency virus

Cats often present with rapid breathing and coughing as the first clinical signs followed by vomiting, seizures, syncope, increased heart rate, and weight loss.

Treatment of heart worms in cats is safe and often successful with immiticide or ivermectin given intramuscular followed up with a prevention like heartgard.

It is absolutely required for a cat to be bitten by a mosquito to have heart worms since they cannot spread from cat to cat or dog to cat by casual contact.

In cats, a positive test indicates that heartworms are present, but a negative test does not mean that they are absent because only 20% of cats have microfilariae in their blood which seem to be short lived.

Some cats can rid themselves of heart worms by outliving the heart worms but it not unusual for sudden death to occur in cats that are not showing clinical signs.

Increased food consumption

Weight gain

Increased activity

Tremors

Elevated temperature