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!

Dr. Ashley Bourgeois, a veterinary dermatologist, is the guest of this week's podcast. We discuss common skin problems in cats and what you can do about them. Is it ok to bathe and shampoo your cat? Why do cats groom themselves, and what happens if they overgroom? Ashley will provide great insights for all cat owners

Dr. Susan and Dr. Jolle are back to wish you a happy new year and discuss their new books. Both are working on 2 different projects and explain that publishing a book is a lot of love and labor. We also give an update about the latest covid tests for cats and the news that there is a vaccine for cats. The question is, do cats need a vaccine?

Happy holidays #catcafepodcast listeners. This week we will repeat the most downloaded podcast of 2020, the one with the awesome Dr. Julie Churchill where we will bust some cat myths surrounding the proper nutrition for cats. This was such a great episode that it absolutely allows a repeat! Enjopy and have a great New Year!

Professor Paulo Steagall talks pain with us in the latest catcafe podcast. Sometimes it is difficult to recognize if your cat is in pain, and he answers the question if cats feel as much pain as we do? Did you know that you can recognize pain in cats by looking at the cat's grimace? The cat grimace scale is a tool to help vets and clients to ascertain how bad acute pain is in our feline friends. Paulo works at the University of Montreal in Canada.