Feline Kidney Disease Symptoms and Treatment: Cat Illness

Feline kidney disease is extremely common in older cats but can develop in younger cats.  Cats that develop this disease do not begin to show symptoms until they have lost approximately 65-70% of the nephrons in their kidneys. Nephrons are funnel-shaped tubes that filter and reabsorb the fluids inside the kidneys. Feline kidney failure will …
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Feline Immunodeficiency Virus – Symptoms and Treatments

Feline HIV, also known as feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is part of the same family of viruses (lentiviruses) as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Essentially, FIV is a cat disease that affects a cat’s T cells, the white blood cells that are essential in staving off infections. As in the human variety, FIV attacks the …
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