Cats love to get HIGH

There's much talk about low-stress ways to get cats into carriers, but new insight in feline care suggests the effort to adopt Fear-Free medicine doesn't end with putting cats in cages. The author was at a veterinary practice in Southern California recently and noticed that the upper bank...

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Published inVeterinary economics Vol. 56; no. 11; p. 6
Main Author Becker, Marty
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published North Olmsted MultiMedia Healthcare Inc 01.11.2015
Subjects
Cats
Stress
Veterinarians
Veterinary medicine
Veterinary services
United States > US
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Summary:There's much talk about low-stress ways to get cats into carriers, but new insight in feline care suggests the effort to adopt Fear-Free medicine doesn't end with putting cats in cages. The author was at a veterinary practice in Southern California recently and noticed that the upper bank of small stainless steel cages in treatment and boarding were being used for inventory storage, not housing. He also noticed cats in the middle and bottom cages. This seemingly little matter is a big mistake. He sat in on a recent seminar from Tony Buffington, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVN, about cats at the Portland Veterinary Medical Association. Dr. Buffington, who recently retired after working for decades at The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, talked about how cats intrinsically love to climb and how they go from "sleep to slaughter" in their brain about 10 times a day.
ISSN:0042-4862
2150-7392