Choosing a “vital 5” out of my list of questions to ask your vet about your cat was no easy task. As the list gets longer, it becomes even more difficult.
My hope, of course, is that cat owners and vets everywhere will use this technique to form a better pet health care team. With some creativity, you can adapt the concept, if not the questions themselves, to fit just about any pet.
As you may already know, I began collecting my list of questions based on reader feedback. By the types of questions that I was being asked by website visitors, two major truths became painfully obvious…
1. Many people just do not seem to have a good working relationship with their vet.
By that I mean that for some reason, they don’t seem to get the information that they need. Honestly, I have been shocked by the questions coming my way on cat health and behavior. Hadn’t these people spoken to their vet? Surely their vet could have helped them with this topic.
Sadly, in some cases, the answer was no. Even worse, though, was the sad reality of the second truth…
2. They had asked one or more veterinarians about the issue,...