07/10/2026
🚨 BRENDAN RANT INCOMING…
“WHY are we getting so uppity about whether it’s IBD or lymphoma?!”
It’s one of those classic feline medicine dilemmas:
🐱 Chronic enteropathy/IBD?
🐱 Small-cell GI lymphoma?
🐱 Can we actually tell the difference?
🐱 And the controversial one… does it always matter straight away? 👀
Because sometimes you’ve got a cat that feels absolutely rubbish, an owner who doesn’t want to pursue endoscopy/biopsies, and Brendan in the corner saying:
“GIVE THEM THE STEROIDS. THEY’LL FEEL SO MUCH BETTER!”
Now, before the internal medicine specialists come for us… 👀 obviously diagnosis matters, and treatment/prognosis aren’t identical. But in the REAL WORLD of GP practice, how far do you go to differentiate the two — particularly when further diagnostics aren’t an option?
🎧 Brendan gets on his soapbox on this The Chatty Vets Podcast, featuring Lucy from Carus Animal Health, talking all things GI health and GIQuest (faecal calprotectin).
👇 IBD vs lymphoma: how hard are YOU chasing the definitive diagnosis?