A Great Resource | Feline Husbandry Diseases and Management in the Multiple Cat Environment

An invaluable reference for cat fanciers | Feline Husbandry Diseases and Management in the Multiple Cat Environment | Neils Pedersen

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	• Feline Husbandry Diseases and Management in the Multiple Cat Environment Neils Pedersen Mosby-Year Book, 1991 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This isn't a review

I'm complaining about the price! To ask over a hundred bucks for a 1991 copyright is ridiculous. I'll defer to everyone else's assessment, both here and other places. It's evidently one of the essential tomes. But when one (like me) is able to find a 2nd edition copy of Saunders Manual of Small Animal Practice, a decidedly expensive book, in mint condition on Ebay, for $35, it's really odd that one can't find even an "acceptable" grade copy of Feline Husbandry--meaning the front and back panels are intact and all the pages are there, in addition to someone else's marginalia, annotations and coffee stains--at a markedly reduced price. Was the print run for this title, like, 1000?

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A Great Resource

This book is one you need if you need detailed information. Except for behavior problems, there is everything you need to know about illnesses, breeding, kittening, genetics and other hard-to-find info. It has answered many of my questions to which I could find answers no where else.

An invaluable reference for cat fanciers

Diseases and Management in the Multiple-Cat Environment. Eight highly respectable authorities present practical information on problems unique to multiple-cat environments. They cover the following areas: History of Domestic Cats and Cat Breeds, J. Wastlhuber-Miller; Normal Genetics, Genetic Disorders, Developmental Anomalies and Breeding Programs, R. Robinson and N.C. Pedersen; Reproduction and Reproductive Disorders, H.G. Stabenfeldt and N.C. Pedersen; Nutrition and Nutritional Disorders, C.A. Buffington; Behavior and Behavorial Disorders, B.L. Hart and N.C. Pedersen; Toxicology and Intoxications, G.D. Osweiler and G.F. Grauer; Cattery Design and Management, N.C. Pedersen and J. Wastlhuber-Miller; Common Infectious Diseases of Multiple-Cat Environments, N.C. Pedersen.

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The most excellent book for cat rescuers, fosterers, etc.

This is a book I've given to a number of people. It is EXCELLENT for anyone doing cat rescue, fostering cats, doing TNR (trap neuter return, to stabilize cat colonies).

It's not *that* hard to read! Really sets out and discusses many issues and problems of "multi-cat environment" (> 5 cats).

Highly recommended.

P.S. (October 12, 2006) Just heard they're working on a new edition!

A must for every cat household especially with >1 cat

I can only recommend this book(must have) to every cat owner,breeder and Vet.
It is a little bit medical, but with little effort it is good to read.

It has 8 chapters:
1) History of domestic cat and cat breeds
2) Normal genetics, genetics disorders, development anomalies
3) Reproduction and reproductive disorders
4) Common infectious diseases of multiple cat environments
5) Behavior
6) Nutrition and nutritional disorders
7) Toxicology
8) Cattery design and management

What I miss in this book is a extra index within every chapter especially in chapter 4, so I made one my self. So you do not have to search a lot.

Chapter 8 I find to sterile especially for kittens growing up, I want to breed and grow kittens and let them live in a normal family environment and not in cages no matter how beautiful they are.
That you have to have some isolated spaces for diseases or giving birth that is another thing, but for daily living all my cats live with my family in a secure home and garden.
BTW: his first book is also very good: Feline infectious diseases, but also out of print :-((

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