Feline Behavioural Issues And A Spotlight On Chronic Axillary Wounds In Cats

04/25/23 • 10 min

This month Nathalie Dowgray, Head of ISFM, is in conversation with Dr Sarah Heath about the impact feeding can have on feline behavioural issues. We're also featuring our monthly JFMS clinical spotlight interview in which Nathalie discusses chronic axillary wounds in cats with Dr Rodrigo Paulino.
Recording during ISFM’s Rhodes Congress, Nathalie Dowgray is joined by feline
behavioural specialist Dr Sarah Heath. She provides practical tips to improve feline behaviour when considering how we feed our furry friends in a multi-cat household and advocates for kitten information evenings in your practice to improve feline welfare.
Nathalie then sits down with Dr Rodrigo Paulino to discuss his JFMS clinical spotlight article Chronic axillary wounds in cats: what do we know and how should we manage them? and Rodrigo shares advice for managing axillary wounds for those of us in general veterinary practice.
At International Cat Care we advocate for microchipping as being the primary source of identification for cats and, where collars are being used as a secondary form of identification, we strongly advise that they are quick-release collars to prevent the risk of axillary collar wounds.
For further reading material please visit:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/1098612X231162880
https://portal.icatcare.org/events/show/fafc1909-0e1e-416e-9ba8-abe0b8e3a213
Tune in next month for more interviews recorded at ISFM in Rhodes, and next month's clinical spotlight interview.
Host:
Nathalie Dowgray, BVSc, MANZCVS, PgDip, MRCVS, PhD, Head of ISFM, International Society of Feline Medicine, International Cat Care, Tisbury, Wiltshire, UK
Speakers:
Dr Sarah Heath BVSc PgCertVE Dip.ECAWBM(BM) CCAB FHEA FRCV, RCVS and EBVS Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Behavioural Medicine for Companion Animals.
Dr Rodrigo Paulino DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl ECAR, Veterinary Surgeon and published JFMS Author

For ISFM members, the full recording of this discussion is available for you to listen to at portal.icatcare.org. To become an ISFM member, or find out more about our Cat Friendly schemes, visit icatcare.org

Previous Episode

Feline Sedation And A Spotlight On Urinary Tract Trauma

This month Dr. Sam Taylor is in conversation with Dr Matt Gurney about feline sedation and the use of low dose ketamine. We're also featuring our monthly JFMS clinical spotlight interview in which Head Of ISFM, Nathalie Dowgray, discusses feline urinary tract trauma with Dr Zoë Halfacree.
Recording during ISFM’s Rhodes Congress, Dr Sam Taylor is joined by specialist in anaesthesia and analgesia Dr Matt Gurney. He talks about his early experiences using subcutaneous low dose ketamine, how it can help our patients and the different options they have for sedation.
Nathalie then sits down with Dr Zoë Halfacree to discuss her JFMS clinical spotlight article Urinary Tract Trauma in Cats: Stabilisation, Diagnosis and Management and Zoë shares advice on how we can reduce the risk of iatrogenic ureteral trauma when we're catheterizing cats.
For further reading material please visit:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/1098612X231159073
http://www.alfaxan.co.uk/news/intramuscular-alfaxalone-in-the-cat
Tune in next month for more interviews recorded at ISFM in Rhodes, and next month's clinical spotlight interview.
Host:
Nathalie Dowgray, BVSc, MANZCVS, PgDip, MRCVS, PhD, Head of ISFM,, International Society of Feline Medicine, International Cat Care, Tisbury, Wiltshire, UK
Speakers:
Samantha Taylor, BVetMed(Hons) CertSAM DipECVIM-CA MANZCVS FRCVS, Feline Medicine Specialist and ISFM Academy Lead
Dr Matt Gurney, BVSc CertVA PgCertVBM DipECVAA FRCVS, RCVS and European Specialist in Anaesthesia and Analgesia.
Dr Zoë Halfacree, MA VetMB CertVDI CertSAS FHEA DipECVS FRCVS, RCVS and EBVS® European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery

Next Episode

Feline lumbar intervertebral foraminal disc extrusion and a Spotlight on medical control of reproduction in toms

This month Dr Sam Taylor sits down with Dr Daniel Ryan to talk about feline spinal disease. We're also featuring our monthly JFMS clinical spotlight interview in which Nathalie Dowgray discusses medical control of reproduction in toms, alongside other reproductive issues, with Professor Stefano Romagnoli.
To begin our episode, Dr Sam Taylor is joined by Dr Daniel Ryan who was the winner of the 2022 JFMS Open Reports Best Practitioner Paper. They discuss the different types of disc extrusion, the ways in which they can present in our patients and his tips for diagnosis.
Nathalie then sits down with Professor Stefano Romagnoli to discuss his JFMS clinical spotlight article Reversible control of reproduction in tom cats: medical options for manipulating libido and fertility as well as a wider discussion on the JFMS Reproduction special issues that Professor Romagnoli was the guest editor of.
For further reading material please visit:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/20551169221112068?fbclid=IwAR3rYVvwsUuuXLinBGoTxDILqLRgV1ByNj2xN7SiTKvfSTGox18F1KqQQ1w
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/1098612X231171406

Tune in next month for a very special episode and more clinical spotlight interviews.
Host:
Nathalie Dowgray, BVSc, MANZCVS, PgDip, MRCVS, PhD, Head of ISFM, International Society of Feline Medicine, International Cat Care, Tisbury, Wiltshire, UK

Speakers:
Dr Samantha Taylor, BVetMed(Hons) CertSAM DipECVIM-CA MANZCVS FRCVS, Feline Medicine Specialist and ISFM Academy Lead
Dr Daniel Ryan, BVM BVS BVMedSci AFHEA MRCVS, ECVN Resident in Neurology and Neurosurgery at Royal Veterinary College and winner of the 2022 JFMS Open Reports Best Practitioner Paper
Dr Stefano Romagnoli, DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl ECAR, Professor In Small Animal Reproduction and published JFMS Author

Chattering with iCatCare - Feline Behavioural Issues And A Spotlight On Chronic Axillary Wounds In Cats

Transcript

Nathalie Dowgray00:00:05.309

Hello, welcome to the April 2023 episode of Chattering with ISFM. I’m Nathalie Dowgray, Head of ISFM and the host of this months podcast. This month we are going to be sharing another of our in conversation with sessions recorded live at our Rhodes congress last year, I spoke with Dr Sarah Heath about some of the more common issues she sees with cats that lead to problem behaviours and we are also featuring our monthly JFMS clinical spot