The Dauphin Vet Clinic is making it easier on cats that come into their clinic.
They are cat-friendly accredited, which means taking measures to make their patients' experiences less stressful.
Dr. Roxanne Neufeld, the owner of the clinic, explains what that means.
“So a visit to the vet for cats can be very, very stressful which also makes it stressful for the owners. So this is just a way to make things as easy and as less stressful as we can make it.”
This program was established by the American Association of Feline Practitioners and the International Society for Feline Medicine.
“Basically the program just outlines a whole list of requirements that a clinic needs to meet and depending on which requirements you met you can either be given a status of silver or gold.”
The Dauphin Veterinary Clinic established the silver level back in October of last year.
“Some of the things that we would need to meet would be having a cat only exam room, which is made very friendly for them. So we’ve got a cat tower in there. The scale is right in the room, and we make use of some plugin pheromones, just to make cats feel a bit more relaxed and comfortable. We also work on using less stressful handling techniques. Just being more gentle with cats, having a cat only kennel room, so they are not stuck in a room with a bunch of barking dogs to stress them right out.”
Neufeld says their continued education now has extra focus on conditions and surgery that are specific to cats.
