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Understand your cat's nutrition and health, one guide at a time. Explore practical reading on kidney disease, heart disease, diabetes and everyday care.

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Disease care

Feline Antiemetics: Maropitant, Ondansetron & Metoclopramide

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-18

Anemia in CKD — reading hematocrit and reticulocytes together

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-13

When the bladder is not the only concern — coordinating long-term care

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

Not fighting is not the same as feeling safe — the route to the litter box

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

Discharge is a handover — watching the days after urinary treatment

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

What does good for the bladder mean? Reading medicine and supplement evidence

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

Before the word urinary — define what this diet is meant to do

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

Cystitis is not an antibiotic prescription — the missing diagnostic step

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

The red flags on a urine report — what to check before the numbers

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

The water bowl is empty — but who drank it?

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

Repeated trips to the litter box — what cystitis does and does not mean

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

Cystitis that returns — what comes after “reduce stress”

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

A night with no urine — the signs that cannot wait

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

Crystals are not always stones — making sense of urinary stone results

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-12

Blood pressure — measuring it at home, and trusting the number

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-03

New treatments — molidustat, AIM, and where things actually stand

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-03

Uremic symptoms — nausea, vomiting, mouth pain, and what to do at home

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-03

Is the phosphorus number enough? Why added inorganic phosphate matters

Disease care

Updated 2026-09-03

The new treatments — diabetic cats in the biggest shift in a century

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

The day of diagnosis — this disease has one thing no other chronic illness offers

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

Getting the most from your vet — the caregiver who brings data changes the consult

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

Care you can sustain — the craft of the households that finish the race

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

When another disease comes too — when control fails, suspect a cause, not the dose

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

Managing the crises — the night too low, and the days too short of insulin

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

Insulin in practice — the first two weeks become a lifelong craft

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

Feeding — the food bowl is half the treatment

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

Remission — on the possibility that this disease can retreat

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

The big picture of treatment — insulin or the oral drug, and the three-legged stool

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

Reading the numbers — the now, the last two weeks, the threshold, and the alarm light

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

Measuring glucose at home — this disease's real laboratory is your living room

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

Is feline kidney disease inherited? — one in five is born carrying the risk

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-31

Getting the most from your vet — recheck rhythm, where to echo, and the emergency night

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Between B1 and B2 — what the left atrium is saying

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Heart failure — the manual, from the day the reservoir overflows

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Clopidogrel — the most important half-tablet

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

When another disease comes too — old cats rarely carry one illness alone

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

The day of diagnosis — when they say the heart wall is thick

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Reading the echo report — between 5 mm and 6 mm

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Saying goodbye — for the farewell that comes without warning

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Feeding the heart-disease cat — what comes before low salt

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Is HCM inherited? — Maine Coons, Ragdolls and genetic testing

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Understanding the medications — the cardiac drugs as a timetable

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

When they hear a heart murmur — not every sound is disease

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

NLR and PNR — the clot-risk signals hiding in an ordinary blood panel

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

NT-proBNP — how much a blood test can say about the heart

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Rapamycin — the first drug aimed at the disease itself

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Resting respiratory rate — one minute a day, the cheapest heart monitor

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

Managing the signs — when a silent disease starts to speak

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-28

HCM nutrition guide → now reorganised into The HCM Bible

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-24

Is kidney disease incurable? — incurable and terminal are different words

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-24

What is creatinine? — reading one number properly

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-22

How to read kidney values on a cat blood test — creatinine, BUN, SDMA, phosphorus

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Phosphate binders — which one, how much, and when

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Stage and goals — where your cat stands now

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Subcutaneous fluids, safely at home — volume, rate, pulmonary edema

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

What the kidneys actually do — and why this happened to your cat

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Cats — From Diagnosis to Diet

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Porus One vs Kremezin: Choosing the Right Uremic Toxin Adsorbent

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Feline Hyperlipidemia: High Cholesterol & Triglycerides Guide

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Acute kidney injury vs chronic kidney disease — what differs

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Metabolic acidosis — how to suspect it without a blood gas

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Do kidney stones and CKD need different care?

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Appetite stimulants — a tool to break the cycle, not to hide it

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-21

Blood pressure drugs — amlodipine and telmisartan, who does what

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-14

Proteinuria — why UPC 0.4 is the line

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-07

When another disease comes too — thyroid, heart, pancreas, diabetes, IBD

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-03

Potassium — dangerous high and low

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-03

Getting the most from your vet — recheck intervals, tests to ask for, red flags

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-03

Does Kremezin actually lower creatinine?

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-03

The day of diagnosis — what to do today

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-03

Saying goodbye — measuring quality of life, deciding, and after

Disease care

Updated 2026-08-03

Managing Multiple Diseases in Cats: A Nutrition Priority Strategy

Disease care

Updated 2026-07-31

Feline Hyperthyroidism: Eating Well but Losing Weight

Disease care

Updated 2026-07-15

Feline Diabetes: How a Low-Carb Diet Drives Remission

Disease care

Updated 2026-07-14

Feline Hepatic Lipidosis (Fatty Liver): A Starvation Emergency Where Nutrition Is the Cure

Disease care

Updated 2026-07-14

Feline IBD & Chronic Enteropathy: The Cobalamin (B12) Key

Disease care

Updated 2026-06-19

Feline Pancreatitis: Nutritional Management (2024 JAVMA / 2021 ACVIM)

Disease care

Updated 2026-06-19

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