Yesterday Willow was diagnosed with a grade 3 heart murmur, but this thread is not about that. This thread is about how I did my cat Willow an injustice by trying to save a few dollars.

Let's start at the beginning:
In 2001 when I first got Willow he went to the vet for his first shots and exam.
By the same time in 2002 I said to myself "The cats do not need to go every year, I can save quite a bit of money if this year I just take them to a shot clinic and then next year we will get the whole physical".
Now it it 2003 and we got this report about his heart and the vet (I changed vet) asked if his heart had ever listened to before because she wondered if the murmur had been there or not. WELL..............he was not examined last year so there was no comparison to be had.

The bottom line is your pets deserve to have PREVENTATIVE care.