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1915 28th Street, Boulder, CO 80301
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(303) 500‑5158
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Phone: (303) 500‑5158
Address: 1915 28th Street, Boulder, CO 80301
Email: info@uniquelycats.com

Saving the World One Cat at a Time!

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At Uniquely Cats® Veterinary Center, we believe that the foundation of all effective feline medical care is a full understanding on the part of the cat parent. Our single most important job is to give you the tools and education to make informed healthcare decisions for your cat.

Truly excellent feline medicine must involve caring for the WHOLE cat as an individual being — not just an ear or a lump, and not as “a case of” a particular illness. We believe that excellent care requires understanding the cause of a problem, and that medicating a cat without first understanding a problem often does more harm than good. We employ therapeutic modalities from Western and Eastern medicine in a “Wholistic” approach to providing the most effective care for our kitty patients and their parents too!

As a Gold Level Cat-Friendly Practice® everything we are and do, from hospital design to touch techniques, is to create a feline-friendly veterinary experience that is as stress-free as possible for your cat (and you!). To learn more about our feline-specific veterinary services, please contact us or book an appointment today.

Uniquely Cats® Veterinary Services

Wellness and Preventive Care

Wellness and Preventive Care

Cats are masters at hiding illness; many apparently “normal” cats are concealing serious disorders. To assure your cat’s continued well-being, we advocate regular health evaluations, including full history analysis, examinations, laboratory screening tests, feline-specific nutritional reviews, and immunity evaluations. Our extended appointment times and comfortable surroundings make providing this service a pleasure for everyone. Learn more...

Dental Care

Dentistry

Most cats will need dental care during their lives. Our fully-equipped, state-of-the-art Feline Dental Suite (including digital dental radiology) is a calm and peaceful place to provide it. We are dedicated to excellent, thorough, safe, and pain-free dental care for your cat. Learn more...

Surgery

Surgery

Our expert veterinarians provide all common soft-tissue surgical services such as spays, neuters, biopsies, mass removals, trauma remediation, and exploratory surgeries. Most specialty surgical procedures are performed in the peaceful surroundings of UCVC by a board-certified surgical specialist. For very specific needs, such as neurosurgery, our doctors will refer to the best available specialists in the area. Learn more...

Feline-Exclusive Boarding

Cat Boarding

Our UCVC Kitty Hotel is the ONLY Feline-Exclusive Boarding facility in Boulder, CO! Specially designed for cat boarding, our Kitty Hotel has multi-level suites with private litter rooms, a huge flat screen monitor playing Kitty TV for mental stimulation, advanced airflow design that eliminates odors from each suite, and plenty of personal attention. If your cat needs regular medications or special monitoring, we provide Medical Boarding that includes veterinary attention during your cat’s stay. Learn more...

Senior Care

Senior Cat Care

Because older cats are at higher risk for developing degenerative and chronic illness states, we advocate twice-yearly health evaluations for all cats 7 and over. Our staff is highly skilled and experienced in the especially gentle care of older cats. Our doctors are experts in the identification and treatment of what are often well-hidden problems in Senior cats. Senior cats frequently have multiple disorders at the same time; our doctors excel in helping you with the often challenging task of effective management of multiple chronic diseases, so that your older cat’s quality of life is great! Learn more...

Advanced Diagnostics

Diagnostics

UCVC provides full laboratory capabilities, advanced digital radiology, ophthalmology, blood pressure testing, and more. Diagnostic testing allows us to detect many illnesses that a physical examination cannot find. We also have visiting board-certified veterinary cardiologists and radiologists who are able to provide in-house Echocardiogram and Ultrasound testing when necessary. Learn more...

Chronic Disease & Pain Management

Pain Management

Effective management of chronic diseases and pain is often a complicated, difficult, and expensive process. No two cats are alike. We will help you assess the practical and emotional challenges of your cat’s illness(es) along with your own schedule and budget constraints; then work within those parameters to help chart a course that provides the best quality of life for your cat and you. We are experts at identifying and alleviating your cat’s pain, and we employ and recommend numerous modes of pain relief, from all walks of medicine, and we are dedicated to finding what works best for your cat. Learn more...

Online Pharmacy

Online Pharmacy

All your medicine refills can be mailed directly to your home or work through our online pharmacy service. Many kinds of medication refills are also available at the hospital for your convenience. Visit our pharmacy!

Class IV Deep Tissue Laser Therapy

Wellness and Preventive Care

Heal your cat with Laser Therapy, an FDA-cleared modality that reduces inflammation and pain and speeds healing. Laser therapy has been scientifically proven to be successful in treating post-surgical pain and many acute and chronic conditions including arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, periodontal disease, and more.

Day Admission Appointments

Day Admission Appointments

Day Admission Appointments are convenient because you can drop off your kitty in the morning and pick him or her up when the visit is complete. Available for established clients, these visits allow us to get diagnostic testing and treatments started faster and help your cat feel better quicker. Day Admission Appointments can also be scheduled in advance for routine wellness evaluations, diagnostic procedures, dental work, and more. Let us make your life easier — have your cat seen by one of our expert cat veterinarians, without missing work!

Hospice / End-of-Life Care

Hospice / End-of-Life Care

When “cure” is no longer an option; when the end is near but not quite here yet; we are here to help you keep your cat as comfortable as possible for as long as possible, both in the clinic and in your home. When the day comes to say goodbye, we offer a beautiful and private Comfort Room in which the entire family can gather. We offer both private and group cremation services, and provide information for services such as witnessed cremation, burial, funerals, and memorials.

Behavior Intervention

Behavior Intervention

Undesirable feline behaviors can damage or even destroy the deep and loving bond between you and your cat. We evaluate these behaviors, identify and address medical causes if present, and provide behavioral and pharmacologic interventions where appropriate. Many behavioral problems cannot be accurately evaluated unless the veterinarian can understand the context by visiting your home. We provide home visits for the best possible analysis of behavioral issues.

COVID note: to our deep disappointment, home visits have had to be suspended until it is safer to provide that service. We are working extensively with videos and other distance tools in the meantime, and will get back to home visits as soon as we can.

Sedation

Sedation

Cats have a natural fear of the strange; this is a positive survival trait, but it can make for a challenge in feline healthcare. Most cats do not require sedation for most veterinary visits, but many stress-prone feline patients benefit greatly from mild sedation for even such routine services as a wellness examination, blood drawing or other procedures. We offer anxiety-relieving sedation when needed, which is safe, humane, and often allows us to provide health care for cats who would otherwise simply go without.

Medical Grooming

Medical Grooming

Cats with health problems often groom themselves poorly; veterinary attention may be required for severe matting, thick or overgrown nails, and other problems, and for the health disorders that cause these grooming issues to happen. Many healthy cats require sedation for any form of grooming. We provide medical grooming services to meet these needs.

Permanent Identification

Permanent Identification

Track your cat safely with embedded microchip identification. The injection process is similar to a routine shot and takes only a few seconds. Your cat will not react any more than he/she would to a vaccination. No anesthetic is required. The registration process is automatic and lasts for the life of your cat.

Hospitalization and Critical Care

Hospitalization and Critical Care

Cats with severe illnesses will often benefit from a period of hospitalized care before being treated at home. Hospitalization allows us to provide such treatments as IV fluids and IV drug therapy, temperature support, and oxygen administration, as well as close patient monitoring and rapid therapy adjustments. Patients requiring overnight critical care will be referred to a 24-hour specialty hospital.

Second Opinions

Second Opinions

Our feline friends are very precious to us. At Uniquely Cats Veterinary Center, we are happy to provide a second opinion on your kitty’s medical condition prior to determining a course of treatment. Our years of experience dealing exclusively with cats give us a unique and oftentimes critical eye with which to view medical test results.

We Do Not Declaw

Declawing of your feline friend is not a service we offer. The latest studies on the subject conclusively show how declawing a cat leads to many long-term health issues, including early onset arthritis, intervertebral disc disease, and a lifelong heightened sensitivity to pain. If you are seeing behaviors that are leading you to consider declawing your cat, you should know that there are alternative solutions to those problems, solutions that do not require painful and mutilating surgery. Our expert feline doctors can help you find those solutions.

There are certainly medical reasons why a cat’s toe or claw might need to be surgically removed, and we can meet such needs when necessary, but elective declawing is not available at UCVC.