Maintaining Good Health

Health depends on the body’s active defenses and its ability to recognize damage and carry out repairs.

All living creatures are capable of this defense and repair, and all living creatures use similar methods.

The cat is particularly adept at maintaining its good health and well-being, although the pressures of living in a human environment have created new and unexpected problems. It is not only road traffic that threatens the urban cat.

Microbes that caused little problem in the cats evolution have benefited from the pet cat's rapidly evolving lifestyle, and now pose threats to good health that are particularly difficult to counter.