American Shorthair: adverse event reports for animal drugs

Drug pages with reports for this breed

The table has every drug page with 5 or more reports that give this breed, in order of name. No count decides which drug is in the table. The table has 33 drug pages.

Signs that the reports list

A sign is a coded term from the report. The words in brackets are a plain gloss of the term. The percentage is the share of the 732 reports that list the sign.

The sign that is in the largest number of the reports comes first.

1. Vomiting14.2%104 reports
2. Hypoglycaemia[low blood sugar]9.3%68 reports
3. Anorexia[not eating]8.1%59 reports
4. Depression[dull, quiet or withdrawn]7.9%58 reports
5. Lack of efficacy (ectoparasite) - flea[the product did not have the expected effect: fleas]6.6%48 reports
6. Lethargy[unusually tired or inactive]6.6%48 reports
7. Ineffective, glycemic control[legacy FDA term: the product did not have the expected effect (glycemic control)]6.1%45 reports
8. Hyperglycaemia[high blood sugar]6%44 reports
9. Death5.2%38 reports
10. Death by euthanasia[the animal was euthanized]5.2%38 reports
11. Diarrhoea[diarrhea]5.1%37 reports
12. Application site hair loss[hair loss where the product was applied]4.6%34 reports
13. Weight loss4.6%34 reports
14. Behavioural disorder NOS[behaviour change, type not specified]4.1%30 reports

What the reports record

Each share of age and weight is of the 732 reports that give this breed. The thin bar is the same share in the 151,153 reports about cats.

Reports by month and by year

FDA says that a report can take 3 to 6 months to reach the public data. The newest months can get more reports in a later update.

Next in the A to Z list of breeds

• Abyssinian cat
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• Bengal
• Bombay
• British cat
• Burmese

All reports about cats. All breeds

Cite this page

Pet Drug Reports. American Shorthair: adverse event reports for animal drugs. https://petdrugreports.com/breed/cat/american-shorthair/ Source: FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, openFDA Animal and Veterinary adverse event reports, export of 30 Oct 2026. Reports received through 26 Jun 2026.

Where the data come from

Questions about these reports

What ages are the animals in the reports?

The figures are shares of the 732 reports about this breed received from February 1989 to June 2026. 25.4% give an age of 12 years and over. 23.5% give an age of 8 to 11 years. 3.3% give no age.

How does the count of the latest 12 months compare with the 12 months before?

FDA received 60 reports in the 12 months to June 2026. It received 70 reports in the 12 months before. FDA says that a report can take 3 to 6 months to reach the public data. The newest months can get more reports in a later update.

Why are crossbred animals not in the count?

The site counts a report for a breed only when the report gives one breed. A report for a crossbred animal can give more than one breed, and a count for each breed would count the report more than once. The reports about crossbred animals are in the count for cats.

Do the reports show that this breed reacts more to a drug?

No. The reports do not give the number of animals of the breed. FDA states this about the data.

An API dataset query result cannot be used to estimate the risk associated with the product or compare one drug or device product with another.

FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine. Source: Adverse Event Reports for Animal Drugs and Devices