Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators will continue to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2020. Q: Stormi, my new kitten, will be an indoor-outdoor cat. I know ...

Invasive surgeries to spay cats could one day be a thing of the past, replaced instead with a single shot. An injected gene therapy given to female cats prevented them from getting pregnant, ...

Q: Stormi, my new kitten, will be an indoor-outdoor cat. I know she needs to be vaccinated and eventually sterilized, but isn’t it better to let her have one litter of kittens before that? A: Cats ...

Spaying cats is more important at this time of year than at any other time. It's mating season, and if we want to control the stray cat population, making sure existing strays can't reproduce is vital ...

Oct. 16 is Global Cat Day, the perfect time to talk about one of the most effective ways to care for our feline friends — spaying and neutering community cats. While the conversation around ...

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