Prepare for a clinic visit
Free printable visit packets, sitter handoffs and observation sheets.
Open tool →Build a better care routine
Practical manuals for feeding, carriers, litter routines and senior-cat logistics.
Open tool →Keep a useful health history
Member records for observations and medicines, with a CSV to share with your clinic.
Open tool →The three that cannot wait
All protocols
Straining or not urinating
Straining in the box with little or no urine — especially in males — is an emergency.
Breathing trouble
Open-mouth breathing, blue/gray gums, or the belly pumping hard is an emergency.
Hind legs weak or cold
Sudden back-leg paralysis with cold paws is an emergency.
Symptom evaluator
Answer a few large buttons. The tree tells you whether to go now, go today, or watch.
Straining or not urinating
A male cat who cannot pass urine can die within hours. This is the most missed feline emergency.
Breathing trouble
Cats hide respiratory distress until they are close to collapse. Open-mouth breathing is never normal rest.
Collapse or unresponsive
A cat who cannot stand, does not respond, or is cold and still needs a hospital, not observation.
Hind legs weak or cold
A saddle thrombus cuts blood to the back legs. Cats cry, the paws go cold, and the pads may pale.
Vomiting
One hairball is common. Repeated vomiting, blood, or a cat who cannot keep water down is not.
Not eating
Cats that skip meals risk hepatic lipidosis. Forty-eight hours without food is never a wait-and-see.
Protocols, not panic
Go now — hours matter
Urethral obstruction
A blocked male cat cannot empty the bladder. Potassium rises. The heart can stop.
Minutes — do not wait
Respiratory distress
Open-mouth breathing or a pumping belly means the cat cannot meet oxygen demand.
Go now, even before signs
Toxin or lily exposure
True lilies can wreck feline kidneys from pollen or a few petals. Human pain medicine is often fatal.
Go now — this is painful
Saddle thrombus
A clot from the heart lodges where the aorta splits to the back legs.
