Cat Cafe Podcast

Dr. Kelly St. Denis is our guest and podcast co-host and we are talking about hot cat news. What do you need to do to make your cat a real adventurer? How can you make you balcony safe for cats and what to do when the cat decides to take a big jump? Kelly is a great source of information an dwe love this episode.

Dr. Kelly Diehl is Senior Director of Science and Communications at the Mark Morris Animal Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that spends a boatload of money on proper research in diseases of pets and other important animals. Kelly explains how the foundation contributes to your cat's health and what you can do in return.

Dr. Ahna Brutlag, veterinary toxicologist (poison expert) works for the pet poison helpline. What should you do if your cate ate something that it was not supposed to? Dr. Ahna gives lots of great advice and tells us what things we better should not have in our cat-living spaces. We discuss plants, chocolate, rat poison, poinsettia, and other cat unfriendly substances....

With my super co-host Dr. Kelly StDenis, we entertain Dr. Liz O'Brien, another famous Canadian catvet. Liz talks about where you can find interesting information about your cat's health and how important it is to have a checklist when you get a new cat or kitten from the shelter.

Dr. Susan and Dr. Jollle are discussing the Easter Lily, a favorite plant during the Easter season. The bad news is that Easter Lilies are so toxic for cats. Even just a little bit of pollen, a bite of leaves, or some of the water in the vase of an easter lily bouquet, can make your cat very sick and cause renal failure (the kidneys will stop working). SO better not get Easter Lilies this year if you have a cat around!

Dr. Kelly St. Denis is our guest and explains the role of the American Association of Feline Practitioners of which she is the current President. There are so many great tools available at catfriendly.com. We discuss a 'hot potato' called declawing. There are great alternatives and the procedure is unnecessary and invasive. AAFP has a statement against declawing in cats

Dr. Susan and Dr. Jolle celebrate 100k downloads for their combined podcasts and talk about a current tool kit that was published about hypertension or high blood pressure in cats. High blood pressure is caused by common diseases such a kidney disease and endocrine diseases but also can pop up due to old age. The good news there are excellent treatments for it.

Today we host Robin Saar who is a veterinary technician from Canada specialized in nutrition, we of course talk about how to handle cats, what you need to do to prepare to visit a veterinarian, and cool nutrition tips for cat owners.

Dr. Mikel is back for our second podcast about how to care for feline orphans and we are so excited that we break our every other week rule! What a great episode it is indeed. Mikel has lots of good tips on how to care for orphans and tells us about her latest research on this very topic!

Dr. Mikel Delgado is specialized in cat behavior and a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist and a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis. This a podcast that was published on the purrpodcast but is so relevant for cat owners too that we decided to simultaneously publish it in the cat cafe too. The 1-2-3 in how to handle neonatal kittens!