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My Cat-astrophic Year, Part Four: The Challenges of Caring For San Diego State University’s Community Cats

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Written by Ingrid R. Niesman MS PhD

This is the fourth part in my series about important feline topics seen through my own experiences in 2022. You can read the previous posts here:

My Cat-astropic Year, Part One: The Challenges of Treating Feline Asthma

My Cat-astropic Year, Part Two: Losing a Cat to Aggressive Lymphoma Highlights the Need for Better Diagnostics and Treatment

My Cat-astropic Year: Rescuing and Rehoming a Siamese Cat

Today’s post addresses the challenges of caring for feral cats on a college campus as experienced by me at San Diego State University (SDSU.)Continue Reading

My Cat-astropic Year, Part Three: Rescuing and Rehoming a Siamese Cat

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Guest post by Ingrid R. Niesman MS, PhD

During the first few months of 2022, I had two apparently healthy and happy Siamese boys. Until I didn’t.

Uli was diagnosed with asthma in January. Click here to read The Challenges of Treating Feline Asthma for his story. Then in March, heartbreak struck again when I lost Big boy Paterson. Click  here to read Losing a Cat to Aggressive Lymphoma Highlights the Need for Better Diagnostics and Treatment.

This is the third part in my series about important feline topics, seen through my own experiences in 2022. Continue Reading

My Cat-astropic Year, Part Two: Losing a Cat to Aggressive Lymphoma Highlights the Need for Better Diagnostics and Treatment

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Uli and Paterson

Guest post by Ingrid R. Niesman MS, PhD

During the first few months of 2022, I had two apparently healthy and happy Siamese boys. Until I didn’t.

Uli was diagnosed with asthma in January. Click here to read The Challenges of Treating Feline Asthma for his story.

Then, in March, heartbreak struck again. Big boy Paterson started vomiting. At first, it was just occasional, and we wrote if off as hairballs. By the third week of March, we became worried and scheduled a vet appointment.Continue Reading

My Cat-astropic Year, Part One: The Challenges of Treating Feline Asthma

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Guest post by Ingrid R Niesman, MS PhD

2022 was the year my human life intertwined with multiple cats’ lives. Somehow, in one year, I encountered a myriad of cat health, cat ecology and cat behavioral issues. Each unique situation provided me with ample material to weave the newest feline science and medicine into my personal accounts of what interacting and sharing life with cats means today. Continue Reading

Cat Writers Association Shojai Mentor Award

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I am delighted to announce that I won the 2019 Shojai Mentor Award from the Cat Writers Association (CWA.) This award, named after past-president Amy D. Shojai, recognizes the CWA member “who has offered guidance, encouraging counsel, support, or other help that has had a direct and positive influence on another’s writing/publishing success. The recipient shall exemplify the highest ideals of the CWA vision, that is, to promote communal support, networking, and mutual respect between colleagues.”Continue Reading