Prepare for the Vet
One sheet with everything the vet asks — weight, food, medication, vaccinations — plus your questions, with room to write the answers down.
1. What is the visit about?
In the consulting room you forget half of it. What you fill in here ends up on the letter in black and white.
Vet visit
11 Sept 2026As soon as you create a cat passport above, the letter appears here with everything Kattenkamer already knows about your cat.
Getting more out of it
- Put the carrier out a day ahead with a familiar blanket inside, so it isn't an object of panic on the day itself
- If blood work is planned, ring the practice and ask whether your cat needs to fast — that differs per test and you don't want a wasted trip
- For stomach or bowel problems: bring a fresh stool sample (in a clean pot, ideally from today)
- Film what you want to show at home — coughing, limping, a seizure or odd behaviour — because in the consulting room your cat won't do it
- Put your own blanket on the examination table: the familiar smell saves your cat a lot of stress
- Write down the answer to each question during the consultation, or ask whether you may record it — afterwards you'll remember half of it
Weighing your cat regularly makes this letter far more useful — the weight check keeps the diary that appears above.
Why writing it down makes the difference
A consultation lasts ten minutes, your cat is stressed and so are you — and that is exactly when you have to recall from memory since when it has been going on, what your cat weighed, which medicines it is on and what you meant to ask. Every source on vet visits gives the same tip: write it down. The difference with a blank sheet is that Kattenkamer already holds those details: the weigh-ins from the weight check, the feeding plan and medication list from the feeding and medication planner, and the vaccinations from the cat passport. This tool puts them on one overview — usually a single A4 — and leaves room under each question to write the answer on the spot.
Frequently asked questions about the vet visit
What should you take to the vet?
The pet passport, a list of every medicine your cat is on (with dose and frequency), the weight trend of the past months and your own questions on paper. For stomach or bowel problems, a fresh stool sample. Also useful: a video of the behaviour you want to show — in the consulting room your cat won’t do it — and your own blanket for the examination table, because the familiar smell saves a lot of stress.
How do you prepare a vet visit with a cat?
Put the carrier out a day ahead with a familiar blanket inside, so it isn’t an object of panic on the day. Write down since when the problem has been going on and what changed about eating, drinking, litter box use and behaviour: those are the first questions you’ll get. If blood work is planned, ring to ask whether your cat needs to fast — that differs per test. And write the answers down during the consultation.
What questions should you ask the vet?
Ask what the likely cause is, which tests are needed and what they cost, which treatment options exist with their pros and cons, what to watch for at home and when to come back. Not sure whether something can wait? Ask that explicitly. And note the answers immediately: a consultation is too short to remember everything.
What this letter is and isn’t
The letter is a summary of what you entered yourself — not a medical record and not a diagnosis. It invents nothing: a section without data in the passport is simply left out. Your cat data stays in your own browser and is never sent anywhere; only anonymous page statistics record that the tool is being used. In an emergency — straining without producing urine, breathing trouble, a cat that hasn’t eaten for almost a day — you call straight away, without printing anything first.
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