Post by the Scribe on Jan 27, 2024 20:37:10 GMT
Dr Jones' Top 7 Tips to a Healthy and Long Lived Senior Cat
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hello and welcome this here is Smokey
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he's a
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15-year-old domestic short hair tabby
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from an alternative vitaran point of
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view these are the top seven tips to
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have a healthy and Long Live senior cat
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so number one so the biggest thing
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probably more important than anything
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else is what you're feeding your cat and
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the moisture that you're giving to your
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cat most cats are fed this dry carb
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loaded cat cable it is low in moisture
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low in protein and often with the wrong
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type of protein our cats they're obla
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carnivores they're really not like a
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small dog how many of the problems that
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our cats can have you know number one
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CKD or chronic kidney disease you know
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that's a direct correlation with diet
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cats that are gaining repeated urinary
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tract disease more than anything else
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what we're doing is we're feeding the
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dry cat cable virtually no moisture
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leading to urinary tract disease even
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diabetes we know the most important
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cause of diabetes in their cats is
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they're eating these high carbohydrate
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cat foods more than anything else if you
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do take away one thing from today's
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video get your cat off
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of this stuff the dry kibble get them
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onto something like this you know canned
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high protein moist Rich cat food or even
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a home diet which is primary animal
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protein and that's going to go and
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prevent so many of the most common cat
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diseases other big things especially
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with our senior cats is ensuring that
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they have increased amount of water that
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they have access to we want them to have
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increase water consumption so in part
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we're doing that by feeding them a
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canned cat food but also you want to
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make sure that they have easy available
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and accessed water Smokey loves this
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ideal cat food it's high in animal
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protein it's high in moisture a great
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option for our senior cats number two
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you want to be giving your cat no more
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of these These are vaccines we've given
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too many cats too many multiple vaccines
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year after year cats have had repeated
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vaccines have a much higher incidence of
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kidneys disease cats getting a type of
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cancer called
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fibrosarcoma directly correlated with
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vaccines if you have a cat that is a
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strickling into our cats in my opinion
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they don't need any vaccines any cat
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past the age of three as far as I'm
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concerned they need no further
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vaccination tip number three using
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holistic options instead of the
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conventional ones a big example I can
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see is this conventional drug here it's
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a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
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men veteran still any I and Veterinary
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practice we would prescribe painkillers
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an anti-inflammatory drug like this
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medicam to cats but unfortunately many
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cats not only can they not tolerate this
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drug it can lead to Serious secondary
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signs it can cause kidney disease it can
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cause liver disease so one cat may be
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okay for getting this Metacam once a day
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for 5 days or another cat he could get
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this Metacam once a day for 5 days and
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that can actually lead to kidney disease
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more importantly it's knowing that and
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looking for some of those safe
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Alternatives which are not going to
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cause secondary side effects a real
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great option for cats that are in pain
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would be a natural anti-inflammatory
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such as this CBD or cannabid oil even
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the conventional flea medications you
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know such as this one here for so many
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of our cats there are so much more
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sensitive these flea medications and
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once again and I even saw this in
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practice you have far more number of
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increased side effects compared to our
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dogs many the holistic veterinarians
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they're seeing links to more serious
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ongoing diseases you know such as things
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such as inflammatory bowel disease being
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linked to Chronic use of these flea
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medications a far safer alternative in
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my opinion is this docious Earth it's
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this fine white powder sort of looks
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like flour it's from thing calls diomes
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or which are fossilized skeletons of
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tiny aquatic organisms that lived
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millions of years ago put the dious
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Earth in this little Spice bottle and if
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I were to treat Smokey I would just
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sprinkle a little bit of the Dow T's
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Earth over top of his fur use a flea
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comb to spread it through you can do
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that once a week and it's a great safe
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way to have natural flea control so
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number four really important for our
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cats especially as they get older and
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they're inside more often environmental
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enrichment what that means is our cats
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need a whole lot of stimulation they
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need to have far less stress we know
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there's such a direct correlation
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between stress in our cats and disease
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the big example I can give is our cats
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getting felin or urinary tract disease
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we now know the single biggest cause of
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that is stress the environmental
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richment can be just as simple as having
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a little toy that your cat is chasing
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you spending direct quality of time with
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your cat and helping them groom himself
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for instance lots of our cat especially
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as they get older they just don't have
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the ability to properly groom themselves
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they just daily grooming your cat with
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this little flea comb lots of our older
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cats they used to wear their nail down
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on something like a scratching post but
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not able to stand up and use it one of
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the suggestions is to make a low
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scratching post so one that's on on the
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ground so instead of having to reach up
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you can just reach across number five
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disease prevention it's estimated that
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upwards of 30% of cats over the age of
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15 are going to have some degree of
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kidney disease many of the feline
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specialty veterinarians they now believe
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that the single most important nutrient
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which is damaging the kidneys leading to
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kidney disease is phosphorus it is also
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link to moisture content one of the
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suggestions this may help with CKD
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potentially prevent your cat from
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getting in the first place
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is to decrease the phosphorus content
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the foods with the highest phosphorus
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content are ones that contain fish you
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want it to be poultry based for example
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this food here it contains turkey here
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you go Smokey it has definitely less
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phosphorus than the one that contains
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fish adding a phosphorus binder to your
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cat's food can help decrease the
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phosphorus in his diet this here is
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calcium carbonate also known as ground
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eggshell the calcium it binds the
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phosphorus can decrease the phosphorus
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in your cat's diet simple cat F dose
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about A4 of a teaspoon per 10 lbs of
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body weight daily also on our supplement
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Dr Jones's Ultimate feeline Health
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formula we have no added phosphorus but
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it does have added calcium so it's an
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easy simple way to decrease the
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phosphorus in your cat's diet which then
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can decrease the potential likelihood of
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your cat getting CKD six managing the
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most common conditions that we're seeing
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in our older cats dental disease and
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arthritis Dental Health plays a key role
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in the old overall health of your cat
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and if you can ensure that your cat has
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reasonably good quality dental care be
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much more likely you're going to have a
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long healthy live cat you can use your
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hands to lift up your cat's lips to look
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at his teeth and gums Smoky here he has
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great looking teeth for 15-year-old cat
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you want to see fairly nice softer pink
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just above the tooth line as smokey has
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above his K9 tooth here right above the
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tooth line is gingivitis yellow on the
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tooth is plaque and firm calculi that is
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tartar lots of cats they just won't let
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you brush your teeth and for many cats
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that's ideal for lots of cats there's
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just no way you're going to get a
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toothbrush into your cats and mouth so
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one of the remedies I found which is
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great for many of the cats that have
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gingivitis great for treating
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inflammation may help decrease the
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chance of plaque turning into tartar is
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using something like this this is called
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propolis it's also known as bee glue be
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use it to reinforce their hive it's a
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great option for naturally decreasing
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mouth inflammation in cat lifting up
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your cat's lifts doing a small squirt on
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one side you're going then rub that
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propolis inside your cat's mouth doing
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the other side of his mouth you could
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just do that once a day so so common in
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most of our older cats is arthritis it's
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a condition of just normal joint wear
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and tear or you have bone rubbing on
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bone you lose that soft articular
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cartilage secondary joint bone
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inflammation the three big core ones I
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just starting on are glucosamine Condren
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MSM and all three of those nutrients
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they're in our C formulation Dr Jones's
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ultimate feline Health formula number
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seven probably the biggest thing more
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than anything else is you being an
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active involved parent so what this
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means is you're taking an active role in
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your cat's health care if your
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veterinarian is suggesting a whole aray
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of different Diagnostics but your cat is
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clinically healthy you may want to ask
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number one why are you doing these tests
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and number two if we do these tests are
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we going to be doing anything different
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you're going to actively question your
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veter you're going to ask about side
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effects so you're going to probably say
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no to something like these vaccines and
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consider something like the supplement
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here which has additional colostrum such
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a better way to support your cat's
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immune system prevent disease if you do
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all those things you follow all those
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seven tips my opinion you have a much
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higher chance of having a happy long
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lived healthy cat click up there to
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