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Feline Heartworm Disease As Great Imitator

Spunky the cat came in today with the owner’s son and a history of coughing twice each day for about two weeks. He was otherwise acting and feeling fine and eating well, he just had this nagging, gagging cough. He even came in with a differential diagnosis list: “He’s coughing like he has a hairball. [...]

At The Laboratory With My Pet’s Doctor, Complete Blood Count CBC

Your pet’s doctor finds many reasons to perform laboratory tests for your pet. Sometimes tests are run as a “baseline”, a set of tests by which to measure future performance of the body. That way, if your pet ever becomes ill, he can say, “When he was “x” years of age, “normal” for him was [...]