Recommendation:

Benefits for your cat:

What you can do:

Prevent Dental Disease

Healthy mouth, breath, heart, and kidneys; fewer anesthetic experiences needed to clean teeth

Feed Veterinary Oral Health Council  (VOHC) approved cat dental diets; brush your cat's teeth once a day

Prevent Heartworm Disease

Healthy lungs

Once-a-month heartworm preventive medication; treat year year round for all cats

Prevent Flea Infestation

Healthy skin, prevents spread of cat scratch bacterial infection & infectious anemia, prevents tapeworm infections

Once-a-month flea preventive

Prevent Intestinal Parasitism

Healthy intestinal tract, prevents vomiting and diarrhea related to parasites, may prevent food allergies, prevents accidental human infections

Once-a-month preventive medication;  scoop the litter box daily and dump and clean the box weekly

Prevent Dehydration

Healthy kidney function, may reduce risk of urine crystal formation and urethral blockage

Feed canned food with water added once a day, make the food as soupy as the cat will eat

Prevent Obesity

Healthy joints, may prevent Diabetes, promotes optimum grooming, especially of hard-to-reach places

Weight checks and body condition scoring twice a year at exams, the LHFC team can advise you as to the amount of food your cat needs

Prevent Behavior Problems

Promotes a loving and satisfying relationship between pet and owner, prevents abandonment and euthanasia

Gentle play using toys and not hands, arms, legs, or feet as play objects; using "Kitten Time Out" as a way to calm a kitten or cat that is too aggressive; never punish a cat by spanking