Catching the light: An essential step when using laser pointers

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Pay heed to this advice in if you encourage this form of exercise in your feline patients.

Do you advise your cat-owning clients to exercise their cats by having them chase the light from a laser pointer? It's an effective and easy activity. But our veterinary practitioner in the trenches Dr. Sarah Wooten pounced onto one finer point of this exercise in a talk by veterinary behaviorist Dr. John Ciribassi: Let the cat catch the light once in awhile or you could be cultivating compulsive behavior. How can you catch a light? Dr. Wooten caught Dr. Ciribassi to get the details.

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