Cat Microchip Care Guide: Routine, Prevention, and Safety
Microchips require no maintenance, but keeping registration current and getting scanned at vet checkups ensures your lost cat comes home.
Six calculators built on published veterinary guidance, with the sources cited on each page.
Kitten, young adult, mature or senior — and what actually changes in care at each stage.
Open the checker →Daily calories from body weight and neuter status, using the standard veterinary energy equation.
Work out portions →How many boxes a household needs, where to put them, and what the guidance really says.
Check your setup →Foods and plants that are dangerous to cats specifically — including the one most people keep in a vase.
Check a substance →Three hands-on checks that place your cat on the nine-point veterinary scale, where 5 is ideal.
Score your cat →Due window from the mating date, plus what should be happening week by week.
Work out the date →Cat Health, Behavior and Care Guides
Microchips require no maintenance, but keeping registration current and getting scanned at vet checkups ensures your lost cat comes home.
Heart murmur grades measure loudness, not disease—echocardiography and blood tests reveal what the murmur actually means for your cat.
Start with 7–14 days of open-carrier habituation using treats, then combine Feliway spray, top-loading carriers, or gabapentin for resistant cats.
Solensia offers the best pain relief but requires monthly vet visits and costs $75–$175 monthly; Adequan is cheaper, home-injectable, but less effective.
Know when bad breath or food-dropping needs a vet visit and what to ask before an anesthetized dental exam.
Learn which exposures put cats at risk, what symptoms demand prompt care, and how to handle a suspected H5N1 case safely.
Build a practical kitten routine covering veterinary care, meals, litter setup, socialization, training, play, and rest.
Moisture, calorie density, dental effect and cost differ. What each format does well and when a mix makes more sense than either alone. If you’re looking for reliable information about wet vs dry cat food, this guide walks through the essentials step by step. At Cat Professor, we cover cat care guides independently — no … Read more
Portion size follows body weight, life stage and whether the food is wet or dry. How to work out the daily amount and split it across meals. If you’re looking for reliable information about how much to feed a cat, this guide walks through the essentials step by step. At Cat Professor, we cover cat … Read more
The one-per-cat-plus-one rule, why corridors and laundry rooms fail, and how substrate preference drives most avoidance problems. If you’re looking for reliable information about litter box placement, this guide walks through the essentials step by step. At Cat Professor, we cover cat care guides independently — no sales pitch, no hidden agenda, just practical information … Read more

Cat Professor is a reference for people who live with cats. We write up what the veterinary literature and the professional guidelines actually say, in plain language, and we say so when the evidence is thin or the popular rule of thumb has no trial behind it.
Two. The widely used rule is one box per cat plus one spare, and the AAFP/ISFM environmental needs guidelines separately state that every cat should have a choice of at least two toileting areas. Both land in the same place for a single cat. Our litter box calculator works out multi-cat and multi-floor homes.
It scales to body weight to the power of three quarters, not to body weight directly. A neutered 4.5 kg cat needs roughly 260 kcal a day; the same equation gives a different answer for an intact cat or a growing kitten. The feeding calculator shows the working.
No, and the veterinary guidelines do not publish a human-age conversion at all. What they define is four life stages — kitten, young adult, mature adult and senior — because the stage is what changes screening and feeding. The life stage checker uses those bands.
Over ten years, under the 2021 AAHA/AAFP life stage guidelines. Cats aged seven to ten are classed as mature adults, which is the stage where routine screening starts to find kidney, thyroid and dental disease before there is anything visible to notice.
No. Everything here is general information for cat owners. A cat that is straining to urinate, has stopped eating, or has suddenly changed its litter box habits needs to be seen the same day — urinary obstruction is a genuine emergency.