The appearance of cat illness symptoms is often delayed and you might easily overlook or not even be aware of the fact that your cat developed an illness and is not feeling well any more.

There are a few pointers you need to watch for when examining your cat from head to tail, but the most important is to do a regular check on your kitty and to learn how to examine your pet systematically.

This is something you will need to learn step-by-step and I recommend to read Dr Shelby Neely’s very detailed tutorial on how to detect cat illness symptoms at home.

Please, always remember:

While the medications that are needed to treat a sick cat are often the exact same medications that we take, some human medications or even old-fashioned cat remedies are very dangerous. You can kill your precious feline friend if you give your cat any medication without the direction of your veterinarian!  Dr Shelby Neely

Unfortunately, diseases and ill thrift in cats (for example cat arthritis) cannot always be detected immediately: it is in the nature of felines to “hide” medical conditions and problems as much as possible and this is often the problem veterinarians face: feline patients that have been developing a chronic illness, being presented to them in a medical state that turned irreversible already, so that they are not able to help curing the condition anymore. This almost daily drama in veterinary practice could be so much improved by cat parents who are aware of the current health status of their cat(s).