Health articles about cats

Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite. More than 60 million people in the United States have this parasite. Most of them do not get sick. But the parasite causes serious problems in some people. These include people with weakened immune systems and babies born to mothers who were infected during pregnancy. Problems can include damage to the brain, eyes and other organs.

In the past, human cases of rabies in the United States were usually caused by a dog bite. Recently, more human rabies cases have been linked to raccoons and bats.

When it comes to selective breeding, there is a lot of misinformation and terms that even veterinarians are unable to distinguish, such as the difference between linebreeding and inbreeding. What types of selective breeding are there then? We will see in this article.

Psychological pregnancy in dogs is a common disorder in females in which they experience and feel the same symptoms as a real pregnancy. In this article we will tell you all about the peculiarities of psychological pregnancy in animals, how to detect it and how to act in such a case. 

Many of the plants that we usually have at home or in parks are potentially toxic plants for dogs and cats. In this article we will look at some of them.

The urine of animals can have many colours and some of them, although scary, do not have to indicate anything bad; different urinary problems and even in other parts of the body, dehydration and taking medication can cause a change in the colour of the urine of our animal, and some of them are clear warning signs that have to make us act. For these reasons it is very important to know what can be the causes of these changes in the urine, in this article we will see it.

Feline leukaemia is a widespread chronic disease in cats and can lead to serious problems and damage to the cat's immune system.

Obesity in companion animals is one of the most common nutrition-related diseases and is defined as the breakdown of the balance between body mass and fat tissue to an increase of 20-25% of ideal body weight. Currently almost half of all dogs are obese or overweight and cats are on the same path.