What does One Health mean for cat owners with Dr. Mike Lappin

enDecember 28, 2019

Cat Cafe Podcast

About this Episode

The awesome cat owner cat cafe podcast is hosting Dr. Mike Lappin, a famous internal medicine specialist in infectious diseases of cats. He represents the One Health Committee of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association. Mike has a message: People are better and healthier with cats. Anything we can do to be happy will improve our life and having pets make you healthier! We also talk about what you can catch from a cat and how you can prevent that. However, if your cat is healthy and you do your deworming regularly and we control fleas and ticks, the odds that you get sick from the cat is almost zero. Mike also gives some good tips on how to stay healthy. On a funny note, when Mike gets sad, he gets a cat. He has now only five.

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