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Feline Husbandry: Diseases and Management in the Multiple-cat Environment, 1e

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Pedersen's "Feline Husbandry" is an excellent reference for the serious cat fancier. There are good overviews on feline health, disease, genetic defects, cattery health protocols, etc. This is an updated edition with an expanded discussion of the bane of cats everywhere, FIP. I'd recommend this text as required reading by anyone interested in the cat fancy.

I think this is the third one I've bought. I refer to it constantly - and get calls from people who know I have it. I even sent one to my vet. As Pederson explains - anyone with more than two or three cats is dealing with a multi-cat environment - a fact that both the cat owner and their vets need to acknowledge. Excellent section on setting up a cattery.

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.

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!

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 :-((

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.

One of the best books written on the multiple cat environment. I spent four years trying to find a copy I could afford. However, it is now on line for NO COST, on the UC Davis web site. I believe there is currently an undertaking to put out a revised copy. While I'm glad to have a copy in hand, if I didn't have it, I'd probably go on line to get it for FREE

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?