AVMA president Dr. Ted Cohn included in upcoming episode of advancements with Ed Begley, Jr.
An upcoming episode of the discovery channel program advancements with Ed Begley, Jr. will check out feline behavior, the value of veterinary care as well as efforts made by veterinarians to enhance the health and wellness as well as welfare of America’s more than 70 million pet cats.
The program airs Monday, April 20, at 7:30 a.m. EST/PST as well as 6:30 a.m. CST. A clip of the program can be checked out below.
American Veterinary medical association (AVMA) president Dr. Ted Cohn is featured in the program, going over the concern of illness going undetected in cats. According to the most recent edition of the AVMA’s U.S. Pet ownership as well as Demographic Sourcebook, the number of households taking their feline to the veterinarian just when a year dropped 13.5 percent from 2006 to 2011. Overall, cats represented only 29.9 percent of overall veterinary gos to while dogs represented 58.2 percent of overall veterinary visits.
“Cats are often seen as independent animals that do not requirement care the exact same method that a dog may requirement it,” Dr. Cohn states in the program. “Unfortunately, that is not true. Cats do requirement to go to the vet as frequently as a dog does, if not more often sometimes.”
The April 20 episode of advancements will discuss the American association of Feline Practitioners’ (AAFP’s) feline friendly Practice® Program (CFP) designation, which focuses on minimizing the stress of veterinary gos to for cats as well as feline owners. It provides tools for veterinarians to enhance the treatment, managing as well as general health and wellness care of cats.
“The AAFP’s feline friendly method Program is a groundbreaking program in veterinary medicine,”says AAFP president Dr. Susan Little. “The time is ripe for a program that assists veterinary methods do the very best they can with their feline patients. The CFP program is about setting the requirements of care, educating veterinary methods about what their feline patients need, about decreasing the stress of the veterinary visit, as well as it’s about making sure that when the feline is at the veterinary center they get the very best high quality of care that’s appropriate to the cat.”
For more info about the AAFP as well as their feline friendly method program visitwww.catvets.com/cfp. For more info about the AVMA, go to www.avma.org.
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The AVMA, founded in 1863, is one of the oldest as well as largest veterinary medical organizations in the world, with more than 86,500 member veterinarians around the world engaged in a wide range of expert activities as well as dedicated to the art as well as science of veterinary medicine.
