Friday, April 29, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
A few footage from the CFA Palm Springs Cat Show, April 2011
Following is a judging footage of judging sessions.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
Cat may have swam to island
A calico cat is seated across from some buildings on Governors Island in New York. According to the New York Daily News, security guards on the island found the cat with salty, matted, and seaweed caked hair over the weekend of April 16. Workers on the island believe the cat swam over from New Jersey, which is more than a mile away.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
CFA Cat Show Schedule for April
We PlayCat is not associated with any group, organization and/or associations mentioned in our blog entries. But we thought you may be interested in one of the organizations, Can Fanciers Association and cat shows they sanction. Click here to see the schedule
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Cat spends nine days in a tree.
ANDERSON, S.C. — Buster has finally come down from a 150-foot pine tree in Anderson after nine days, but the cat's owners are not happy with local officials.
Linda Megretto told the Anderson Independent-Mail she expected to find the cat dead Monday, but her husband climbed a 40-foot ladder and coaxed the cat down.
Megretto says Buster stayed in the tree through two storms after becoming afraid when a neighbor chased the cat from his barking dog.
She says she called the Humane Society, fire department, police and animal control and got no help.
Sheriff's spokesman Chad McBride says there is no record she called.
Fire Chief Billy Gibson says firefighters no longer respond to such calls because of liability issues. Gibson says putting food at the base of a tree usually works.
Source: The Republic, Columbus, Indiana
Linda Megretto told the Anderson Independent-Mail she expected to find the cat dead Monday, but her husband climbed a 40-foot ladder and coaxed the cat down.
Megretto says Buster stayed in the tree through two storms after becoming afraid when a neighbor chased the cat from his barking dog.
She says she called the Humane Society, fire department, police and animal control and got no help.
Sheriff's spokesman Chad McBride says there is no record she called.
Fire Chief Billy Gibson says firefighters no longer respond to such calls because of liability issues. Gibson says putting food at the base of a tree usually works.
Source: The Republic, Columbus, Indiana
Friday, April 15, 2011
Solutions for a biting cat
Q: Our 13-year-old indoor/outdoor cat is very affectionate, yet for seemingly no reason, sometimes circles our feet and legs, sounds aggressive, then bites us savagely. How do we address this? -- R.T., Toccoa, GA
A: "Notice your cat's body language, and simply find a way to separate yourself from the cat before the attack," says cat behavior consultant Pam Johnson-Bennett, author of "Starting from Scratch: How to Correct Behavior Problems in Your Adult Cat" (Penguin Books, New York, NY, 2007: $15). "And don't run away; that will only cause your cat to chase, maybe thinking it's a game. It's important to play (with your cat) daily using an interactive toy, teaching him to chase and pounce on it -- and not you."
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Vaccine could cure cat allergies, study suggests
Sniffly-nosed kitten-lovers rejoice: A new vaccine could soon banish allergies to cats.
The vaccine isn't ready for prime time yet, but a new study finds that the shots are safe, researchers reported March 31 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. They're also effective at reducing allergic reactions, the researchers reported.
About 10 percent of people are allergic to cats. Currently, the only solutions are to stay far away from felines or to get multiple injections of kitty allergens to help the body build up a tolerance. But that process can take years, wrote McMaster University immunologist and study researcher Mark Larche.
Larche and his colleagues developed the vaccine by isolating the protein shed by cats that causes the most allergic reactions. They then used blood samples from people with cat allergies to determine which segment of the cat protein binds to and activates immune cells. (An allergic reaction occurs when the immune system interprets benign substances, such as cat dander, as invaders and launches an attack.)
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The vaccine isn't ready for prime time yet, but a new study finds that the shots are safe, researchers reported March 31 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. They're also effective at reducing allergic reactions, the researchers reported.
About 10 percent of people are allergic to cats. Currently, the only solutions are to stay far away from felines or to get multiple injections of kitty allergens to help the body build up a tolerance. But that process can take years, wrote McMaster University immunologist and study researcher Mark Larche.
Larche and his colleagues developed the vaccine by isolating the protein shed by cats that causes the most allergic reactions. They then used blood samples from people with cat allergies to determine which segment of the cat protein binds to and activates immune cells. (An allergic reaction occurs when the immune system interprets benign substances, such as cat dander, as invaders and launches an attack.)
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Do Fishers Really Eat Cats?
I hear a lot of people say that fishers — six-to-13-pound members of the weasel family — eat house cats, but I’m not yet 100 percent convinced. As a professional zoologist I have to be careful about accepting animal stories as facts without seeing the evidence myself. I hear stories of mountain lions in the hill towns and even a population of Bigfoots in the Adirondacks. Tell me you saw a deer today and I have no reason to doubt you, but if you make a claim that has never been verified, I want to see the data. Since cats fight each other all the time, and a black cat would look an awful lot like a fisher, witnesses’ accounts take us only so far.Let’s review the evidence on this one.
Our research in Albany has shown that fishers certainly have the opportunity to eat cats. They are hunting the woods between subdivisions at night, which is prime cat time. I have followed their tracks through the snow crossing dozens of cat tracks, sometimes even smelling the cat latrines nearby.
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
What to expect when your cat is expecting
Cats are very efficient at reproducing and are able to have several litters a year with multiple kittens in each.Most cats go through puberty at an early age – somewhere between five and nine months. This is why it is so important to sterilize your cat at the time recommended by your veterinarian (typically 4 to 6 months of age). Female cats can be fertile for about seven years, while males may be able to reproduce for 11 years or longer!
The large numbers of feral cats (animals that have returned to a wild existence) demonstrate that in an uncontrolled environment, they will keep reproducing. Today's methods of feline sterilization are surgical and thus are not easily applied to the vast number of feral cats. Researchers are working on new methods of feline contraception, including oral medications and even vaccines. We look forward to new options to stop kitty overpopulation in the future.
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Cat Vomiting
Cat vomiting may be caused by various reasons. Some cats vomit often, some very rarely. Cats may vomit and not be sick as in humans. As long as your kitty eats normally, plays, uses the litter box, and is not losing weight, there should be no reason for concern.Causes
• Hairballs
• Overeating or eating too quickly
• Food allergies
• The food is too cold
• Hunger...
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Friday, April 1, 2011
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