“…Ciprofloxacin is a second-generation fluoroquinolone widely used and extensively studied in human medicine (González et al, 1984;Drusano et al, 1986a,b;Tartaglione et al, 1986;Bergan et al, 1987;Dudley et al, 1987;Plaisance et al, 1987). In addition, it has been studied in many animal species, such as rats and monkeys (Siefert et al, 1986), rabbits (Barriere et al, 1987), pigs and calves (Nouws et al, 1988;Fang et al, 2000), ponies (Dowling et al, 1995), horses (Yun et al, 1994), chickens (Atta & Sharif, 1997;García Ovando et al, 1999;Anadón et al, 2001), sheep (Muñ oz et al, 1996), goats (García Ovando et al, 2000) and dogs (Walker et al, 1990;Abadía et al, 1994Abadía et al, , 1995. However, to our knowledge, pharmacokinetic studies in domestic cats have not been reported.…”