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Issue 11/2011 11/2011: In Breeding: Pedigree number hiding Pedigree number hiding It seems to be some kind of sport amongst breeders to wipe out
the registration number of a cat, when the pedigree is published on
the homepage. When reading such pedigrees, several questions arise:
11/2011: In TopSubjects: A cat is not a doll A cat is not a doll There is a group in dogs, called "toy dogs", what a hapless name
for dogs, which have the only function to be our companion. When I look on the following pictures, I become very sad and feel very sorry for these cats...
Issue 03/2007 Updated 03/2007: In breeding: Pedigree Registration number Also the registration number is very different in each
organization.
Issue 11/2010 11/2010: In Breeding: Breeding What is a breeding animal - breeding? A look into the TierZG, which, however deals with cows, horses, pigs, goats and sheep, provides interesting information in many areas. What can we find to the subject of breeding in the cat organizations? The breeding and registration rules of the FIFe start immediately in their front chapters with bans and commandments for specific breeds.
Let us look now to TICA, which claims to be the world largest
genetic registrar.
11/2010: In Breeds: Persian - Has something changed?
Standard and health? Actually not. Or yes ...? When looking on the standard of the Persian, the standard remained the same. Actually, there has not been changed anything in the content and in the wording. And what about the cats?
11/2010: TopSubjects: Tabby or not tabby? Tabby or not tabby ? A new exhibitor exhibited his red Persian proudly for the very
first time, as classic red tabby = blotched tabby. People call this
pattern also bull's eye pattern.
Issue 02/2007 02/2007-updated: In Breeds: Standard Persian Standard and health? A provocative question? Let us read the standards regarding the aspects of their proportions and implications for health. The forehead, nose and chin appear in that way that they are in vertical alignment
This is an addition to the standard, added since 2007.
Issue 04/2008 04/2008: In Anatomy: The skeleton The Skeleton Some figures:
A cat has about 240 bones, depending, how many bones it has in the tail. Body planes
04/2008: In Breeds: Standard Manx Standard and health? A provocative question? Let us read the standards regarding the aspects of their proportions and implications for health. Standard Manx
LaPerm Origin The first Laperm, named Curly, was born in spring 1982 as natural mutation in
a litter of six of a barn cat, named Speedy, which roamed freely on the farm of Linda
and Richard Koehl in The Dalles, Oregon.
04/2008: In Breeds: Size - Body structure part 2 What is the structure of a cat? The word "structure" is used with different meanings in the
standards.
Issue 06/2007 06/2007: In TopSubjects: Learn behaviour Learn behaviour - Conditioning How can cats be trained to a certain behaviour? How did I condition my two Exotic-boys that I diverted their spraying to soft toy-cats?
06/2007: In Health: Ear diseases Common ear diseases Inflammation of the external ear
06/2007: In Breeds: Size - Body structure part 1
Size - Body structure - Structure - Type I still remember very well a judge from Norway, who lifted up the
cats to check their weight. All those satirists simply were thoughtless and seemed not to know the standard of their own breed seriously!
Issue 05/2007 05/2007: In Breeds: Turkish Cat Turkish Cat or Armenian Cat? This is an interesting "cat breed", which is registered and named very differently in the various cat organizations and which leads sometimes to quite controversial discussions. Longhair If one considers the body type (including the head), there seem to exist two different types: The longer, somewhat fine built cat, whose body is longer and elegant, which has a long tail and whose head is slightly longer and tapering with high set and relatively large ears.
05/2007: In Breeds: Part 3 - Hairless breeds Naked dogs and cats are said to be prone for sunburn and may suffer from severe injuries of the skin. Expertise from 02.06.1999 How to interpret § 11 of the animal
protection law, From where and based on which literature does such a statement
come?
05/2007: In Breeds: Part 2 - Naked cats Sphynx Origin: The first Sphinx - Mexican Hairless - , which are reported, originate from 1902, when Mr. and Mrs. Shinick from Albuquerque, New Mexico, bought two naked cats, named Nellie and Dick, from the native Pueblo-Indians.
05/2007: In Breeds: Don Sphinx Don Sphynx - Donskoy The Don Sphinx is a medium sized naked cat. The body is solid, but
not coarse, and medium in length.
Issue 04/2007 04/2007: In Breeds: Kurilian Bobtail Origin Kurilian Bobtails come from the Kuril Islands, where they live as ordinary domestic cats. They were shown in an exhibition in 1990 for the first time...
Origin The first Devon Rex was born in September 1959 in Buckfastleigh, Devon. Miss Beryl Cox and Miss Margaret Croll lived near an old abandoned tin mill, and took care of feral stray cats. One wild living male, a longhaired, curly coated black tomcat, mated one of her feral cats, a tortie and white female, which Mrs. Cox had sheltered. The female gave birth to a litter, where one brownish-black male had lots of curls, she named him Kirlee...
Issue 03/2007 03/2007: In Breeding: Inbreeding What is inbreeding? Inbreeding is the mating between close relatives:
Titles - Different in every organization Every organization has its own show system, and therefore also the titles are very different.
03/2007: In Health: Eye diseases Disorder in the eye lids Enrolled eye lid Entropion
Ectropion Eye lids where the edges are tuned inwards or outwards are likely to be seen in so called extreme breeds, for example in breeds with very short faces, like Persians and Exotic.
03/2007: In TopSubjects: Travelling with cats Pet passport - Microchip - Health certificate The EU-regulation 998/2003 from 26.5.2003 rules the travelling, crossing the border and the import of pets. Each cat must have:
What does the cat see? The cat is a nocturnal animal, thus the amount of rods (Retina: No. 2) is much higher than that of the cones (Retina: No 3). Vision field The Vision field of a cat (200° in total) is much less when compared to preys, because the cat is a predator (9 lens) and has to look into forward and downward direction when hunting. Her eyes are forward-faced and relatively large. The vision is, compared to humans (180° in total), larger. Horses have a vision of 305°m dogs that of 250° in total... And many more articles in issue 03/2007.
Issue 02/2007 02/2007: In Shows: Judging - Something for the initiated? The judging procedure is different in each organization ... The judging procedure is for the novice - and sometimes also for the exhibitor - like alchemy, almost incomprehensible.
Structure of hairs The sebaceous gland produces the natural oily film covering
each single hair.
The cell and the DNA The DNA consists of two strands, called double helix, which wind
clock-wise (to the right) around an imaginary axis. The DNA is in the nucleus and is in each body cell. The DNA carries the genetic information. The DNA is a chain molecule consisting of many repeating units (= Desoxyribonucleotides)...
02/2007: In Genetics: Epistasis Epistasis - Mimic Gene Locus A = Agouti Each cat has a tabby pattern. But to express the tabby pattern also in its phenotype the cat must have either the gene combination AA or Aa. The allele a masks all tabby patterns = Epistasis...
And many more articles in issue 02/2007.
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