** Veterinary Care

If you are looking for a veterinarian, the best way is to ask your friends, acquaintances, or co-workers who they use. Make sure the veterinarian you choose likes your kitten. I feel very strongly that you and your veterinarian and not the breeder should make decisions about the care of your cat. This includes diet regime, brand and type of litter, age at which your kitten is neutered, if declawing is a reasonable option, and a schedule for vaccinations (the cats in my home are not declawed).

Your kitten must visit a veterinarian within 10 days of purchase for vaccination scheduling. Your cat must visit a veterinarian each and every year thereafter.

I always cut their front and back nails back severely when they are four weeks old. This makes it easy for you to maintain short nails. For kittens, please use a human nail clipper to trim the white tip of each nail. Never cut past the white area.

Remember that your kitten must be spayed or neutered in keeping with the spay/neuter agreement you have signed.

Please let your veterinarian know that your new kitten’s parents are vaccinated yearly (every November) using Feline Leukemia-Rhinotracheitis-Calici-Panleukopenia-Chlamydia Psittaci Vaccine (Modified Live Virus and Chlamydia, and Killed Virus). The brand is Fort Dodge Laboratories Inc. and is distributed by Schering-Plough. The trade name of the vaccine is Eclipse 4 + FeLV. My four adult females and my male are all leukemia free. As well, the cats are parasite free (both internal and external).