How Often to Take Your Cat to the Vet

Have you ever wondered how often you should take your cat to the vet?

It is recommended to take your cat to the vet twice a year for a physical exam and evaluation of special health needs.

Yes, two times a year might sound like a lot, but cats are smaller animals and their little bodies change more rapidly than ours as they age. They are exquisites hunters and hide their signs of disease until they have passed through much of the onset of a problem. There are many obese cats that could avoid developing diabetes (and obviously avoid increasing the costs to your pocket book), there are many cats that have chronic vomiting (and no, that’s not normal to vomit all the time, even with fur balls) and there are so many cats with dental disease.

It is important not to wait until your cat’s tooth is rotten before having a dental done. You certainly wouldn’t wait until gingivitis had developed into periodontal disease to do something about it.

Why not take the steps to avoid this from happening? And trust me; it will happen to virtually every cat. As a cat moves into their senior years, like Rags , they all develop renal failure and 30% develop hyperthyroidism.

Pretty much whatever a human can get, your cat can get.

As you may know, problems are always easier to handle when they are identified early on and can be addressed with medications or be monitored through blood work.

Below is a list of recommended procedures and lab work for healthy cats in different life stages—I highly recommend these recommendations so that you cat will live well longer.