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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a stray, flea-infested black kitten who found her way to the ER at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center just in time for

A few years back, one of my dog-owning clients asked me about getting a stroller for her dog. She wanted to walk to the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center for her dog’s appointments, but her dog tired easily and she thought a stroller would make the walk to AMC easier for both her and her dog. My first reaction was “that’s dumb, a dog stroller” but after thinking about it a bit, I realized the dog stroller had many uses to improve a dog’s quality of life and wrote about it in a previous blogpost. Never did I think of putting a cat in a stroller. Now, a new research study is investigating if strolling with your cat is a good idea. I’ll discuss the study in today's blogpost.

The US Open Tennis Tournament is in full swing at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, Queens and, over the next two weeks, New York City will be all about tennis. For some dogs, every day is about tennis—tennis balls, more specifically. What is it about tennis balls that makes them so popular with dogs? Their yellow-green color might help answer that question.

Having a pet teaches responsibility, provides companionship, a social network and a stimulus for exercise. For these reasons, pets are critical to our wellbeing. The point of this blog post is to raise awareness of the potential injuries associated with pets so you can avoid them and maintain that essential bond with your favorite fur-person.

August 17th is National Black Cat Appreciation Day. This is a much-needed holiday as black cats have been unfairly maligned since the Middle Ages. In a Papal Bull issued in 1232, Pope Gregory IX damned black cats as the incarnation of Satan. Several centuries later, another Pope, Innocent VIII, linked cats, the devil and witches by writing, “The cat is the devil’s favorite animal and idol of all witches.” At the time of the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts, witches were thought to transform into black cats who could roam the countryside and cause mischief.  These superstitions have led to “black cat bias,” a term applied to the negative feelings people have about black cats, compared to cats with other coat colors. Black cat bias may also lead to longer shelter stays for black cats relinquished to an animal shelter. Today’s blogpost will focus on one of these unfortunate black cats, a five-week-old, flea-infested black kitten, brought to AMC by a Good Samaritan. This little waif was covered with so many fleas, she had become anemic. The photo accompanying the blogpost shows her in her ICU incubator with an IV catheter in her arm for her blood transfusion.