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  • Selecting your cat's food is a choice you make to support their health and well-being for each of their life stages. Complete and balanced commercial cat foods are designed to have specific nutrient profiles, and different diet types are available for healthy cats or those with a medical condition. Your veterinarian is always ready to help you make the best nutritional choices for your cat.

  • Selecting your dog’s food is a choice you make to support their health and well-being for each of their life stages. Complete and balanced commercial dog foods are designed to have specific nutrient profiles, and different diet types are available for healthy dogs or those with a medical condition. Your veterinarian is always ready to help you make the best nutritional choices for your dog.

  • The primary nutritional goals for the young adult cat are to maximize health, longevity, and quality of life. The diet should address common health issues that nutrition may influence, such as dental disease, obesity, feline idiopathic cystitis, cancer, and osteoarthritis. Your veterinary healthcare team can help choose a nutrient profile that best suits your individual cat.

  • The primary nutritional goals for the young adult dog are to maximize health, longevity, and quality of life. Obesity is the most common preventable disease in dogs of all ages. Your veterinary healthcare team can help choose a nutrient profile that best suits your individual dog.

  • Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is a virus that infects cats. FeLV depresses the immune system and cats tend to remain infected for life. There is no cure for FeLV, and the disease is fatal, so preventing FeLV through vaccination is highly recommended.

  • The Field Spaniel can be a dedicated hunting companion, an enthusiastic hiking partner, eager agility competitor, ecstatic retriever of anything, and contented lap warmer, all rolled into one.

  • Reliable, correct information is essential for making informed decisions on your pet’s care and health needs. The best source of information is always your veterinarian, but if you’re looking online, this handout discusses how to find trustworthy sources of information.

  • Despite being loud, alert and agile when on the chase, Lappies are calm, friendly and very submissive with people. Their gentle disposition makes them ideal dogs around small children and the elderly.

  • The Finnish Spitz, the national dog of Finland, loves to bark, and his barking talents are so valued that every year in Finland, officials select a King Barker. Maybe not the breed for peace-and-quiet lovers, the Finkie, as he is known to his friends, is nonetheless a playful and devoted companion.

  • Broken nails are acute, painful injuries that require first aid, and in some cases, a veterinary visit. Bleeding should initially be controlled with pressure from gauze or a towel, followed by cauterizing powder if needed. Any remaining damaged part needs to be removed, which usually requires veterinary care. Broken nails are best prevented by keeping all nails short through regular trimmings.