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Benadryl for Cats: How Much Is Safe, and Why It Often Doesn't Work
Plain diphenhydramine at the AAHA guideline amount — 2–3 mg/kg every 12 hours, about half a 25 mg tablet for a 10-lb cat — is the easy part. What matters more: it works for a sting, mostly doesn't for chronic itch, doesn't calm an anxious cat, and is off-limits for...
Cat Yowling at Night: The 3 a.m. Decision Tree
Ignore the yowl of a young, healthy cat who has always done it. Never ignore the new yowl of an old cat. Three questions that sort every case — fixed? over ten or new? stops when you get up? — the full cause table, what 'dementia howling' really is, the...
Hip Dysplasia in Cats: Why Cats Don't Limp, and How to Tell
Cats with bad hips don't limp — they stop jumping. The five signs that change first, the jump test to film for your vet, how hip dysplasia differs from the other causes of a limping cat, what 'fixing' it really means, and where hemp's joint evidence does and doesn't apply...
Heart Murmur in Cats: What the Grade Means and When to Worry
A murmur is a sound, not a diagnosis. In apparently healthy cats about one in three murmurs is heart disease — and two in three cats with heart disease have no murmur. What the I–VI grade means, the five causes, the work-up, and the home breathing count that catches heart...
Stroke vs Seizure in Cats: How to Tell Them Apart in 60 Seconds
Seizure: minutes, unresponsive, whole body. Stroke: sudden, conscious, one-sided, and the signs stay. Three questions that separate them, plus the two look-alikes — vestibular syndrome and saddle thrombus — and where hemp does and doesn't fit.
Why Is My Cat So Clingy? When It's Love and When It's a Symptom
A cat who has always been clingy is a personality. A cat who became clingy is sending a message — stress or boredom in a young cat, often hyperthyroidism, blood pressure, pain or cognitive decline in a senior. The 'is this new?' test, the four-box table, and where hemp fits.
Cat Twitching in Sleep: Dreaming, Seizure, or Hyperesthesia — and the Wake Test That Tells You
A cat twitching in its sleep is almost always dreaming. The wake test and three questions that separate a dream from a seizure or hyperesthesia, what each looks like, the one-in-six-hundred seizure figure, and where hemp honestly fits.
Why Is My Cat Panting? The Eight Causes, the Fifteen-Minute Rule, and When It's an Emergency
Panting in a cat is not normal. The eight causes side by side, the fifteen-minute rule and the sleeping breathing count that separate harmless from urgent, why cats differ from dogs, what to do right now, and where hemp honestly fits.
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Cat Yowling at Night: The 3 a.m. Decision Tree
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