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While it can be frustrating when cats scratch and damaged furniture and other household items, and it may be tempting to want to stop the scratching altogether, it’s important to remember that scratching itself is a normal, innate behavior for cats. In most cases, it’s not actually the scratching that’s the problem – it’s what…

Our very own Dr. Carolina Cofer was recently featured on CBS 7 News Carolina! SPARTANBURG, SC (WSPA) – A change in season can not only impact humans, but it can impact your pet’s mental health, too. We met with Dr. Caroline Cofer to talk about signs of pet depression and steps you can take to…

Acupuncture, the ancient practice of inserting needles into specific points of the body, is an amazing tool for healing and balancing pets as well as people. These specific points are considered by the ancient Chinese to be located along the pathways of “Qi” flow through the body. Decreases, increases, blockages, and misalignments of qi lead…

Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection of the liver and kidneys spread by the urine of dogs, coyotes, raccoons, skunks, and rodents. It is contracted by ingesting water contaminated with such urine. Humans can contract leptospirosis, as well, if they come in contact with the urine of an infected animal. The leptospirosis vaccine has gotten a…

The three-year rabies vaccines allow you to decrease the number of injections your pet receives over a lifetime while still keeping them safe and legal. The three-year vaccine requires that a pet has had a one-year vaccination prior to it. For pets that have been in their homes since they were puppies or kittens, we…

Pet’s Favorite Vet proudly offers recombinant rabies vaccines for cats. Recombinant vaccines are specially designed to remove the adjuvant, an inflammatory component essential to the efficacy of many vaccines. By creating a vaccine that works without the adjuvant, the amount of inflammation produced in the location of vaccine administration is reduced. Why is this important?…