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August 22 is “Take Your Cat to the Vet Day,” but here at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center, every day is take your cat to the vet day. In the first half of 2025, our veterinarians saw more than 1,300 feline patients. While 74 million pet cats share our homes in the United States, another 30 to 40 million stray cats live in our communities, according to the inaugural issue of the World of the Cat Report produced by Hills Pet Nutrition. “Take Your Cat to the Vet Day” originally began to promote better care for cats, addressing a significant gap in feline healthcare. Cats visit the veterinarian much less often than their canine counterparts--only 40% of cats visit the veterinarian annually, compared to 82% of dogs. In today’s blogpost, I’ll discuss the barriers cat owners face when taking their pet to the veterinarian, new research to help improve feline health that you and your cat can participate in and good news about treatments for feline disease.

Human body language refers to nonverbal communication that includes facial expressions, amount of eye contact, gestures, posture, how close you stand to someone, how you touch them and your tone of voice. While some people are very good at reading body language, others struggle. Since animals have a limited verbal repertoire, body language is their primary means of communication. Today’s blogpost will highlight some telltale nonverbal cues of cats and dogs.

June is Adopt A Cat Month, and here at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center, we’re celebrating our feline friends with an entire month of blogposts devoted just to cats. I’m hoping many kittens and adult cats will find their “fur”ever homes this month. While many new pet parents will welcome playful kittens, some will choose to adopt older cats—and today’s blogpost is for them. I’ll be discussing a set of behavior changes occurring in senior cats: feline cognitive dysfunction, a disorder similar to dementia in humans.

June is Adopt A Cat Month, and here at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center, we’re celebrating our feline friends with an entire month of blogposts devoted just to cats. June is a good month to celebrate cats because kitten season is in full swing and the photo in this blogpost shows Spunky and Rascal, brother kittens who are being fostered by friends of mine. Today’s blogpost focuses on the Pandora syndrome in cats.

As the new year approached, my inbox filled with dozens of personalized suggestions for New Year’s resolutions. The American Veterinary Medical Association, for instance, sent me “New Year’s Resolutions for Veterinarians.” Google’s AI generated an eleven-point list of common resolutions in case I couldn’t think of any on my own! Even Blue Apron, my meal kit delivery service, sent a list of suggested resolutions. Well, now it’s my turn: I’ve curated the resolutions recommended to me and adapted them for pets and pet owners in the blogpost below.