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A guided reading path through feline physiology, illness and evidence. Start with everyday questions and build the ideas one at a time.
Start with body balance
For curious readers, with no medical background required. These chapters explain concepts; decisions about a particular cat belong in a veterinary consultation.
Six topics
Read in order if these ideas are new, or start with a question that interests you. Each chapter includes a mechanism map, three useful terms and a question to think through.
Build the foundation
How a body stays in balance
If life keeps changing, how does the inside of a cat stay workable?
Cells, organs and feedback: a foundation for the chapters ahead.
Follow the connections
From a meal to usable energy
Is eating enough the same as being able to use that food?
Separate digestion, absorption and metabolic control.
Follow the connections
How oxygen reaches the cells
Once air reaches the lungs, has oxygen reached the cells?
See how breathing, blood and circulation work together.
Follow the connections
Water, kidneys and the work of recovery
Why can a cat pass more urine and still lose too much water?
Understand filtration, reabsorption and connections beyond urine.
Follow the connections
Protection, inflammation and immune memory
Does inflammation always mean an infection is present?
Distinguish a threat from the body’s response to it.
Think with evidence
From a clue to a supported explanation
What does a positive test actually tell us?
Connect observations, tests and the questions research can answer.
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