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| Kitty Cat Meow |
| Cat Lover Zone - Cat Type - wealth of practical advice and information on cat grooming, cat breeding, cat showing, cat care including cat pictures |
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| Privacy Policy |
| 2008-09-23 19:16:00 |
Thank you for visiting this site.This site serves search text ads via Blogger on google.com, and also serve contextual and placement-targeted text and display ads on the Google content network (AdSense). By using the site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. This privacy policy describes what personal information will be collected and how it uses it.Routine Information CollectionAll web servers track basic information about their visitors. This information includes, but is not limited to, IP addresses, browser details, timestamps and referring pages. None of this information can personally identify specific visitors to this site. The information is tracked for routine administration and maintenance ...
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| Quotations For Fans of Our Feline Friends |
| 2008-05-21 07:25:00 |
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.*Joseph Wood Krutch - Twelve SeasonsI have just been given a very engaging Persian Kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.*Evelyn UnderhillWhen I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?*Michael Eyquem De MontaigneI would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans.*A. L. Rowse 'Three Cornish Cats'A cat that lives with a good family is used to being talked to all the time.*Lettice Cooper 'Parkin'Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.*Mark Twain, ...
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| Feline Useful Addresses |
| 2008-04-02 01:00:00 |
Feline Advisory Bureau,350 Upper Richmond Road,Putney, London SW15 6TI.Telephone: 01-789-9553The Cat’s Protection League,17 Kings Road, Horsham,West Sussex RH13 5PP.Telephone: 0403 65566The Cat Association of Britain,Cat Association Central Office,Hunting Grove, Lowfield Health,Crawley, West Sussex RH11 0PY.Telephone: 0293 23470The Governing Council of the Cat Fancy4-6 Penel Orlieu, Bridgewater,Somerset TA6 3PGTelephone: 0278 427575The Cat Action TrustP.O. Box 1639London W8 4RYCats,5 James Leigh Street,Manchester M1 6EXTelephone: 061 2360577Cat World,Scan house, Southwick Street,Southwick, Brighton BN4 4TETelephone: 0273 595944Kennel and Cattery ManagementPO BOX 45, Dorking,Surrey RH5 51ZTelephone: 0306 712712
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| The Cat and the Law - Cat Show |
| 2008-04-02 00:50:00 |
It is great privilege to be owned by a cat. Although many non-pedigree cats are unwanted, and considered by the uninitiated to be of little value, each and every one is worthy of the esteem due to all sentient living creatures. Although they have less protection under the law than dogs, they nevertheless do have certain inalienable rights, and we owners take on legal responsibilities when cats come to share their lives with us.Neglect, or inflicting suffering on a cat, can result in legal prosecution in the UK (under the Cruelty to Animals Act). Included in the interpretation of “neglect” and “suffering” are failing to provide medical treatment when a cat is ill or injured, not making provision for it when going away on vacation, and keeping it in unsuitable conditions.Buying and s...
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| The Show Cat - British and American Shows |
| 2008-04-01 08:31:00 |
BRITISH SHOWSThe first thing that happens at the show is vetting-in. The vet will give each cat a thorough health check, and if for some reason, such as runny eyes, fleas, or sore gums, the cat fails the examination, you will have to take it home and forfeit your entry fee. You may have to show your vaccination certificate to the vet, so have it ready.Judging British Cat ShowPutting your cat in its penAfter vetting-in, you take your cat to its pen – a metal cage displaying the same number as that on the cat’s tally. Although the show organizers will have checked that the cages are clean, it is best to play safe by wiping down the bars with some non-toxic disinfectant. Arrange the blanket, litter tray, and filled water bowl in the pen. In Britain, these are the only items allowed in wit...
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| The Show Cat - Cat Show |
| 2008-04-01 07:50:00 |
Harrison Weir (1824 - 1906) The Father of the Cat FancyThe first cat show on record was held as part of an English fair in the year 1598, but serious showing really only began in 1871, with a large show at London’s Crystal Palace for British Shorthair and Persian types. Harrison Weir (1824 - 1906) The Father of the Cat Fancy, was an English gentleman and artist. He organized the first cat show in England, in the Crystal Palace, London, in 1871. He and his brother, John Jenner Weir, both served as a judges in the show.At about the same time, the first American cat show was held in New England for the Maine Coon breed. British cat shows are still run on the same lines as the early ones, with judges visiting each cat in its pen. Later, some shows had a ring class with cats on leads being pa...
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| CAT SHOW |
| 2008-03-14 23:51:00 |
The showing of pedigree cats has played the central role over the past century in creating the rich spectrum of breeds that delight cat lovers today. Through the shows, breeders have produced many new kinds of cats and had them recognized.It must be said of course that the artificial selection carried out by breeders has been confined to the human ideal of a good-looking cat. Nobody bothered to ask a cat what it thought! In fashioning cats to charm the human eye, scant attention has been paid to the possible physical disadvantages. However, it is certainly true that genetic engineering has produced fewer harmful effects with pedigree cats than has been the case in some areas of dog breeding.Should you decide to make a serious foray into cat shows, you must be prepared to spend a lot of tim...
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| Heredity and Breeding - Cat Show |
| 2008-03-14 22:55:00 |
Basic mechanisms of heredityBreeding for showing depends on the workings, be they calculated or accidental or plant contains structures called chromosomes. These look like microscopic string carries details of the design of some particular part of the body. Some genes are concerned with eye colour and so on. The genes are arranged in a fixed order along the length of the chromosome, so the chromosome contains a “blueprint” of the total make-up of an individual.Domestic cats carry thirty-eight chromosomes arranged in pairs of nineteen. Eighteen if these pairs are virtually identical, but one pair differs slightly This is the pair that decides the kitten’s sex. Females carry a pair of so-called “XX” chromosomes, while males carry an “XY” pair. A kitten will inherit one of its m...
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| REPRODUCTION |
| 2008-02-18 07:08:00 |
Everyone, well nearly everyone, loves babies, and few babies are more attractive than the cubs, or kittens, of cats, big or small. The successful breeding of, say, snow leopards or ocelots, is a notable and ever-welcome event – the more the merrier for such endangered species. With domestic cats however, the owner has a special responsibility. Pedigree kittens are usually in demand, and they sometimes sell for remarkably high prices; but crossbred animals are often regrettably a burden on the market.Queens reproduce easily and fruitfully during most of their adult lives. With a relatively short gestation (pregnancy) period and an average litter size of almost four, cats can multiply almost as prodigiously as rabbits. It is gross irresponsibility to allow your cant, male or female, t...
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| Raising and Fostering – Reproduction |
| 2008-02-18 06:54:00 |
There are occasions, such as the death of a queen or where she simply cannot produce or where she simply cannot produce a sufficient supply of milk, when you may be faced with the problem of rearing kittens in some other way. (If you decide to “destroy†the kittens, do not even consider drowning the, Animal euthanasia must always be carried out by a vet or clinic).You have two options – fostering and artificial rearing.If available, a foster mother is preferable to bottle rearing.FosteringA veterinarian, pet shop, breeder or cat club may be able to put you in touch with somebody who has a newly kittened queen with spare teat capacity. Ideally any such adoption should be carried out as soon as possible after birth and before the queen has bonded too strongly to her own of...
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