Posts Tagged ‘disease’

Poy-poy was sick for 5 days. I brought him to Andrawina Pet Center at Jalan Bengawan last Friday. He was suffered from otitis externa, an ear infection. He kept shaking his head and scratching his ear until it’s bleeding. So I 
decided to bring him to the vet, Dr. Ade. Luckily, the infection was not that bad. But still, Poy-poy had to spend 4 nights there. Thanks to all Andrawina’s crews, now poy-poy’s seem healthy. No […]

This long flat parasite lives in the small intestine of the cat. It buries its head into the lining of bowel, holding on with suckers and hooks. It can be up to 50 cm (20 inch) in length, divided into segments called proglottids. These proglottids break off from the end of the worm and are […]

Ticks are wingless, parasitic insects that bury their mouthparts into the skin of their host, gripping firmly while they fill their bodies with a massive meal of blood.
They sart off as a small grey, white, or cream colored dot attached to the skin, and gradually grow
over a few days to look like a large wart […]

Cats quite often suffer from chronic snuffles, most commonly due to nasal sinus infections that may follow on from a bout of cat flu. Antibiotics may help, but often do not result in a complete cure.
Another more rare, yet fascinating cause of chronic snuffles in cats are nasopharyngeal polyps. It is a non-cancerous tumors that […]