As a feline practitioner, I see a lot of sick cats. The toughest cases always involve those felines whose ownes say they “haven’t been to a vet in years and recently stopped eating.” We run lab work, and, congratulations, your pet is in stage 4 renal failure and needs a dental. How do you know which disease came first? Which is the bigger problem? It’s a tough reality check knowing that if they had only brought their cat in for routine physical exams and annual wellness diagnostics, we could have caught the chronic kidney disease (CKD) sooner.
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