You typically take kittens, and you would just pop the bottle in the mouth, just like you're feeding a baby. And if they're hungry, they'll drink.

Most breeders will not give you a cat before about nine weeks of age. By about six weeks, they can start on solids. And by eight to nine weeks, they'll be perfectly fine without any milk. So it takes about eight or nine weeks for a kitten to wean from their mother.

The small ones need to bottle-feed if their mom isn’t able to nurse them. If they can't eat solid food, then they need to get their nutrition from milk. If they are already eating solid food, there's no reason that they would need to have milk. By about nine weeks, kittens generally don't need milk.

Not necessarily. So, perhaps if people haven't seen... The first thing, very quickly, I want to touch on diagnostic imaging means to me, ultrasonography, radiology, or x-rays, CT scan, MRI, those kind of things, those are imaging type studies. Other lab work might be blood work, CBC chemistry, coagulation panels, that kind of thing. So with that background being said, does your dog need to have lab work before diagnostic imaging is done? And the answer is no. It purely depends on what we are trying to diagnose by doing these studies. So, for example, if an animal comes in with a limp and we're doing x-rays because that's one of the more common things we do, to see if there's a fracture and obviously I don't need to run a blood work and look at the dog's liver and kidney function if I'm worried about if there's a fracture there or not. So, I think that's a prime example of when lab work would not be required. There's multiple others, but I won't go into all of them because there's too many scenarios, but simply put, no, they do not require lab work necessarily before imaging can be done.

Probably not. You're going to remove one drive, which if you have an intact male dog and there's a female in heat down the street, your dog may want to go pay a visit. But for most dogs, if they want to get out and run and play, they're probably bored and you need to take them on a walk. Get some energy out. It's not going to help with that.

There are effects of hormones on personality. The main ones we're going to lose are testosterone on a male dog. Generally, testosterone is what leads to aggressive behavior. So dogs tend to be more compliant and easier to handle. If they have learned behaviors, then that doesn't change. It doesn't take away their drive to play and have fun. There are a few dogs where we would not recommend castration on a male dog. These would be active, working police dogs, or any high-performance dog. The lack of testosterone could remove that drive. But for the average pet that lives in a house, they're going to be easier to manage. They're going to mark fewer things and be less likely to run off. In female dogs, we really don't see any changes in the behavior. Some people believe they need to have one litter to get a nice personality, but we've never seen that. There are many nice dogs that have never had puppies.