here you will find a lot of medical information about the cat

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  Information about diseases, birth, medication etc.

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    Information about FORL (Feline Tooth Resorption)

Wikipedia - online encyclopedie

   Information about HCM (Hypertrophic Cardio Myopathy)

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    Link to the online book 'Feline Husbandry' by dr Niels C. Pedersen of UC Davis - published in 1991

  Article by dr Susan Little about treating pyometra

   plants poisonous for cats

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  Cat Health, Illness, & Well Being Topic Library

   here you will find a lot of useful information about medicines for a.o. cats (composition, dosage etc.)

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  here you will find a lot of medical information about the cat

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   MESSYBEAST CAT RESOURCE ARCHIVE

here you will find a.o. medical articles  

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  The American University UC Davis now has a DNA-test available with which it is possible to determine a.o. whether or not an Oriental Shorthair carries the gene for Siamese. See dr Leslie Lyons message hereunder:

I am pleased to announce that the DNA tests for Points and Sepia have been launched by the
Veterinary Genetics Laboratory at UC Davis.
You can now send a buccal (cheek)
 swab into UC Davis and have a cat tested to
determine it's genotype at the albinism locus: cscs,
cscb, cbcb, Ccs, Ccb, or CC. No more guessing as to
whether that cats is carrying points or not! It will
also identify albinism cats and carriers of that
allele (ca).

PKD testing in
British Shorthairs is also available.

for more information

Leslie A. Lyons, PhD                           

 Associate Professor
 Department of Population Health & Reproduction
 School of Veterinary Medicine
 University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616

 Lab e-mail: felinegenome@ucdavis.edu
 web: http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/PHR/LyonsDen/

  for the latest news regarding DNA-research on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)