I am the owner of a 5-year-old cat that my family adopted when she was a kitten...The one and only time she's been to a vet was when we found her, where my mother has told me she had all the necessary procedures done.
Since she's started to gravitate towards me over the years, and I'm considering taking her with me when I move out...I thought I should seek an outside opinion on whether she should be taken to a vet for any checkups or not.
There's nothing in her behavior that has me especially concerned -- she shakes her head a lot and paws or scratches at her ears sometimes, and recently I noticed her scooting around on her rump a couple times, but I don't know how normal any of that is. She also has some slight separation anxiety (or so I suspect), has only travelled a couple times before, and doesn't like being in cars.
My mom tells me I'm free to take her in to the vet if I want to, but she keeps saying that it isn't necessary and that the staff will be confused about why I'm bringing her in when there isn't anything overtly wrong with her. Like I said, I just thought it might be good to seek a second opinion to see if maybe she's right about that.
Since she's started to gravitate towards me over the years, and I'm considering taking her with me when I move out...I thought I should seek an outside opinion on whether she should be taken to a vet for any checkups or not.
There's nothing in her behavior that has me especially concerned -- she shakes her head a lot and paws or scratches at her ears sometimes, and recently I noticed her scooting around on her rump a couple times, but I don't know how normal any of that is. She also has some slight separation anxiety (or so I suspect), has only travelled a couple times before, and doesn't like being in cars.
My mom tells me I'm free to take her in to the vet if I want to, but she keeps saying that it isn't necessary and that the staff will be confused about why I'm bringing her in when there isn't anything overtly wrong with her. Like I said, I just thought it might be good to seek a second opinion to see if maybe she's right about that.