THE MESSYBEAST CAT RESOURCE ARCHIVE

MESSYBEAST CAT RESOURCE ARCHIVE

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Messybeast Cat Resource Archive - cat care, welfare, behaviour, rescue, oldies, ferals and general interest

HEALTH, BEHAVIOUR & CAT CARE
BASICS Cat Facts and Fallacies Glossary of Basic Cat Terms Are Ginger Cats Always Male? Are Tortie/Calico Cats Always Female? Are White Cats Albinos? Are White Cats Always Deaf? And other bite-size facts.	FEEDING Cat Foods and Feeding Around the World Cat Food Uncovered Human Foods Bad For Cats Overweight and Obesity in Cats Vegetarian Cats - An Abuse of Cats' Rights
BEHAVIOUR Are Dogs More Faithful Than Cats? Cats and Babies Can Coexist! Cat Chat: Vocal Communication Cat Communication: Body Language Cat Sex: A Quick Guide to Cat Sexual Misconduct Do Cats Dream? Do Cats Have Emotions? Do Cats Have Intelligence? Effects of Quarantine on Cats - Case Studies Felines Fostering Other Animals Feline Retrievers First Impressions - Introducing a New Cat Food Burying and Toy Dunking House Soiling Problems Nervous and Aggressive Cats (Non-Ferals) Night-Time Calling (Age/Insecurity Related) Pica: Eating the Inedible The (Un)sociable Cat?	CAT & KITTEN CARE Caring for Disabled Cats Cat Litter Suggestion (Low Tracking & Odour Control) Catnip, Valerian, Honeysuckle & cat attractant plants Cats and Emergency Situations Cats That Kill Kittens Feeding Faddy Cats Hand Rearing Kittens The Indoor Outdoor Debate (Worldwide) Massage Your Cat Make a Free Cat Litter Scoop Make a Wheat-Filled Heat Pads Moving House With a Cat Working Cats
NEUTERING Early Age Neutering - Resistance in the 1990s Early Age Neutering- Increasing Acceptance in the 21st Century	MEDICAL Blood Group Incompatibility In Cats Feline Perception of Pain Help, I'm Allergic to the Cat! Lyme Disease In Cats Medicating Your Cat - Tips and Tricks for Tablets Tea Tree Oil - Toxic to Cats! Twisted Limbs in Kittens (Cause and Treatment) Zoonoses - Diseases Spread from Cat to Man
AGEING CATS Growing Old Gracefully Towards the End	EUTHANASIA & BEREAVEMENT Euthanasia - Gentle Death, Painful Decision Time to Let Go When Cats Grieve When Should I Replace a Cat That Has Died? Pet Loss Resources and Inspirational Items

CAT RESCUE & FERAL CONTROL
PEOPLE AND PROBLEMS Anti-Neutering Lobby Anti-Neutering - Castration Anxiety! Cat Collectors (Cat Hoarders) Cat Population Control Vs Discovering New Breeds Cats or Bloodsports - Which is More Cruel? "Designer Breeds" Myths Moggy (Mutt Cat) Breeders - No Friend to Cats	SO YOU WANT TO START A CAT SHELTER? A British Shelter in the 1990s Casebook (Some photos may cause distress) Cat Work & Feral Control in Ethnic Communities Fundraising Ideas Kenya Society for the Protection & Care of Animals Pedigree Shelter Cats and Pedigree Lookalikes Gallery So You Want to Start a Cat Rescue Shelter? Tales from the World of Cat Rescue
MISSING CATS The Cat Fur Trade Cat Theft for Classroom Dissection Studies Missing Cats and Stolen Cats	FERAL CAT RESCUE British Feral Cat Control Do Pet Cats Contribute to the Feral Cat Problems? Feral Cats - Extermination is not the Answer Homing Feral & Other Outdoor Cats (Guidelines) Stray Cats Are Not Just Somebody Else's Problem Taming Feral Kittens and Cats
CATS & PREDATION Myth of Giant Feral Cats Wildlife Enemy #1 or Convenient Scapegoats?	FERAL CATS AND THE ENVIRONMENT American Feral Cat Problem (1990s) Australian Cat Dilemma (Summary) Australian Cat Predicament (In Depth) TED Case Study: Australian Feral Cat Dilemma

BREEDING & GENETICS
BREED LIST Note: Messybeast does not maintain a list of breeders and catteries. Cat Registries (A Broad Definition) Cat Breeds and Types (A-Z) - Recognised and Unrecognised Cat Breed Discovery Time-Line	BASICS Barrington Brown (Recessive Brown) A Plain English Guide to Colours and Patterns A Plain English Guide to Conformation Basic Colours of Self (Solid) Cats Beautiful Bicolours - Tuxedo and Magpie Cats Colourpointed and Masked Cats Eye Colours in Cats Indefinable Colours Longhaired Cats Satin, Glitter and Grizzle in Cats Silver and Gold - Smoke, Shaded And Tipped Cats Striped, Spotted and Ticked Cats Tortoiseshell and Tricolour Cats
BREEDING PRACTICES Cosmetic Enhancement Future Cat Breeds? Pros and Cons of Cloning Pros and Cons of Inbreeding Pros & Cons of Mutation & Why Mutation Can't Be Eliminated Validity of New and Minority Breeds	ULTRA-TYPING, MUTATIONS & ETHICS Cat World Designer Cat ("Anti-Munchkin") Debate "Designer Breeds" Myths The Ethics of Breeding for Deformity: Extreme Brachycephaly Twisty Cats and the Ethics of Breeding for Deformity Ultra-Typing and Extreme Mutations
HYBRIDS American Mystery Cat Fake (Consumer Alert) Ashera/Allerca - A Murky Business (Consumer Alert) Domestic x Wildcat Hybrids (and small cat hybrids)	TORTIE TOMCATS Mosaicism, Tortie Tomcats, Genetically Impossible Kittens and Gender Anomalies
GENETICS Basic Inheritance and Cell Division Genetic Anomalies of Cats Genetics Jargon File - Plain English Meanings Gene Loci, Alleles & Phenotypes (Colour & Type) Gene Symbols for Feline Mutations Influence of the Father on Kittens' Temperaments Is Coat Colour Linked to Temperament? New Mutations - What Next? White Cats, Eye Colours & Deafness	GENETIC & DEVELOPMENTAL ANOMALIES Curled, Curved and Folded Ear Cats Curly Tailed Cats (Gallery) Dwarf, Midget and Miniature Cats (General Information) Dwarf, Midget and Miniature Randombred Cats Dwarf, Midget and Miniature Purebred Cats Polydactyl (Hemingway) Cats Radial Hypoplasia (RH) & Femoral Hypoplasia (FH) Rex1: Hairless & Sparse-Coated Cats Rex2: Rex and & Curly-Coated Cats Rex3: Wirehair & Broken-Coated Cats Short-legged Cats Tailless, Bobtail and Curly Tailed Cats Winged Cats

WILD CATS, HYBRIDS AND BIG CATS
SMALL CATS American Mystery Cat Fake (Consumer Alert) Ashera/Allerca - A Murky Business (Consumer Alert) Small Cat Hybrids Domestication of the Cat Breed or Subspecies? Taxonomy of Breeds Small Wild Cats	BIG CATS Big Cat Sightings in Britain British Big Cats - Sorting Fact From Legend Hybrid & Mutant Big Cats Hybrid Big Cats In The British Countryside Prehistoric Cats and Prehistoric Cat-Like Creatures

MEDICAL CURIOSITIES
MEDICAL REFERENCE Feline Medical Curiosities This links to illustrations and explanations of genetic and developmental abnormalities and deformities. it is intended as a resource for breeders, veterinarians and rescuers. Some may find the photos distressing.	CURIOUS CATS Cabbit Myth Giant Cats Horned, Spiked and Spiny Cats Horned Paws Impossible Hybrids Kangaroo Cats and Squittens (Half-Squirrel, Half-Kitten) Largest Litters and Most Prolific Mothers Longevity Records in Cats Pittsburgh Refrigerator Cat - a 19th Century Myth Winged Cats

GENERAL INTEREST
Cats Eating People? Cats - Friend or Food (Warning: Distressing Images) Cat Keeping Habits in Britain Cat Keeping in Britain and America Compared Catty Sayings and Their Derivations Whimsical Naming of Cats	Feline Folktails and Superstitions Kucinta: Cats of Singapore and Malaysia Photographing Your Cats (A very simple guide) Role of Cats in Myth and Religion Role of Cats in Nursery Rhymes Role of Cats in Urban Myths

ARTWORK
Silver and Gold (Seasonal Card Design) The Hybrid (Big Cat Logo) "Mercedes" and "Dinner" (Ink drawings) (Due to bandwidth issues, the clip-art collection is no longer online)

Comments? Queries? sarah.hartwell[at]blueyonder.co.uk My day-job means I can't answer all emails, it takes about 7 days on those I do answer. For other queries, please read the Messybeast FAQ.

Aphrodite

The Messybeast.com Cat Resource Archive is dedicated to Aphrodite 'Affy' Hartwell; our tamed feral. Died of cardiomyopathy, 1999 aged 10 yrs, 11 mths.

My work for feral and pet cats is an ongoing memorial to Affy.

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It is also dedicated to all those cats who are euthanized for no better reason than feline overpopulation.

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