Cat's Meow Veterinary Clinic

05/10/2025

Excellent and timely article from CIDRaP @ UMinn.

University of Maryland scientists are calling for increased surveillance of avian flu in domestic cats after a global review of 20 years of published data reveals a dramatic uptick in feline infections—and the number of ways cats are being infected—after the emergence of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b in o...

04/08/2025

Spectrum guy can't get the new cable pulled through by himself. He's going to replace the deteriorating outside portion, splice where it enters the building, and schedule a day for a team to come out to do the complex pull of an entire long cable.

Should have nice, fast internet and working phones in a few minute.

Update: So, we have phones again. And internet, though it's not fast, just functional. The cable pullers are coming Wednesday afternoon. And after that, we may very well still need a new router.

04/07/2025

If anybody is trying to reach us this afternoon, the Spectrum repair guy is here figuring out why our internet has been gradually failing. He says the cable is ancient and deteriorating. So he has to replace it, which means going through walls and ceiling tiles, probably using the old cable to pull the new one through.

The guy on the phone earlier said it was probably the modem, but we shall see. No idea how long this is going to take. Glad I didn't have anything scheduled now.

This may explain the extreme wonkiness of our internet-based phone system too. And the increasingly bad, unreliable wifi.

03/10/2025

H5N1 avian flu (HPAI) is highly lethal in cats.

1) Keep cats 100% indoors.
2) No raw milk or related products.
3) No raw meat/poultry; also, no freeze-dried, because it's freeze-dried RAW.

If your cat gets sick, tell your vet right away if you have broken any of the above rules within the past month. Somebody's life could depend on their getting timely and correct information from you.

H5N1 continues to circulate in wild animals, cows, and poultry–cats and dogs aren’t immune.

03/05/2025

CDC has important data on cats with H5N1, but they are not sharing it with anyone. This potentially endangers the health, not only of other cats, but of the veterinarians who care for them when they are ill.

These veterinarians, flu scientists, and biosecurity experts are watching with growing concern the rise in H5N1 avian influenza in cats.

02/25/2025

When you bring your cat in to us, please let us know right away if your cat goes outdoors or you feed it any raw or freeze-dried foods or treats.

Veterinary expert Dr. Stephen Cole discusses the risks of bird flu in cats and how pet owners can prevent exposure.

02/01/2025

Many of the CDC links to H5N1 epidemiological data and articles for medical professionals are broken/removed. Here's a graphic that I covers the past year. I looked over a table that was still up and there have been about 11 domestic cats diagnosed with it in California, mainly in LA County.

No idea why the map doesn't show all of them.

02/01/2025

This is very serious. We veterinarians (especially those of us who only see cats) MUST have information on how we might spread AF to cats, and how we can prevent spreading it to them.

Avian flu has a very high mortality in cats. We need reporting of the vast quantity of data on it that CDC holds and is compiling. We need swift, competent assessment of that data. And we need the human AF vaccine released for those of us who have daily workplace contact with vulnerable species.

CDC was ordered to cease all research and communications on Day One of the Trump administration. This was extremely foolhardy and dangerous. Please contact your Congressional representative about this to demand that the muzzles and zipties be immediately removed from every single person and publication of CDC.

An unprecedented freeze on the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report sparks new concerns about political meddling in science.

01/22/2025

IMHO, cat owners should NEVER feed their cats raw diets, or raw meats, or freeze-dried diets. This avian flu problem is just one more of many reasons not to. You are risking your cat's life if you do.

More than a dozen cats have been killed or sickened by bird flu spreading in raw food products, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The FDA announced a federal probe on Tuesday to determine how the virus entered the pet food supply chain after reported cases in California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington.

The death and illness among cats come on the heels of multiple outbreaks among poultry and dairy cows, as well as several dozen human cases in the United States: https://tinyurl.com/4hj2u9am