Especialidades JA/Gatos - Avanzado/Respuestas
Nivel de destreza
2
Año
2001
Version
25.11.2024
Autoridad de aprobación
Asociación General
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Para consejos e instrucciones, véase Gatos.
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(1) Es demasiado salvaje para ser un buen gato doméstico.
(2) Es la mascota nacional de Canadá.
(3) Parece ser lampiño.
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2c
(1) Korat (Tailandia) (a) Muestra cojera cuando se recoge. (2) Ragdoll (EE. UU.) (b) Se remonta a los gatos salvajes de Kenia. (3) Sokoke (Dinamarca) (c) Simboliza la buena suerte.
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2e
i. Gato del sumidero
ii. Gato gordo
iii. Gato volador
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Verdadero
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i. Gato Abisinio
ii. El gato Habana Brown
iii. Gato de Geoffroy (gato montés sudamericano)
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Falso.
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i. Mist australiano
ii. Gato dingo
iii. Manchado y/o neblina mármol (Mist)
The Australian Mist (formerly known as the Spotted Mist) is a breed of cat that was developed in Australia in the late 1970s, hence its name. The breed was developed by crossing the Burmese, Abyssinian, and Domestic shorthair cats to create a shorthaired cat with a spotted coat. The name was changed from 'Spotted Mist' to 'Australian Mist' in 1998 when cats with marbled coats, rather than spots, were accepted as part of the breed.
Australian Mists are medium-sized shorthaired cats, with a round head and large, expressive eyes. The coat patterns have three levels of definition; (1) ground color, paler than pattern; (2) pattern, delicate though distinct from ground color; (3) appears to wear a misted veil, caused by random ticking in the solid colour areas. The legs and tail are ringed or barred, and the face and neck also have delicate lines of color. Australian Mist cats come in seven colors: brown, blue, chocolate, lilac, caramel, gold and peach.
As a relatively new breed, all Australian Mist catteries are in Australia, however desexed cats have been introduced to America and several other countries. The breed is now accepted for Championship status by the World Cat Federation.
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The Japanese Bobtail is a breed of cat with an unusual 'bobbed' tail more closely resembling the tail of a rabbit than that of an ordinary feline. The short tail is caused by the expression of a recessive gene. Thus, so long as both parents are bobtails, all kittens born to a litter will have bobtails as well. Unlike the Manx and other cat breeds, where genetic disorders are common to tailless or stumpy-tails, no such problem exists with the Japanese Bobtail.
The Japanese Bobtail is a small domestic cat native to Japan and Southeast Asia. The breed has been known in Japan for centuries, and there are many legends and myths, as well as pieces of ancient art, featuring it.
Japanese bobtails may have almost any color, but "Mi-ke" or bi-colors are especially favored by the Japanese. Much like any other breed, the colors may be arranged in any number of patterns, with van and calico being common among purebred cats, and tabby being seen in non-purebred Japanese bobtails
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Veterinarians commonly recommend commercial cat foods that are formulated to address the specific nutritional requirements of cats although an increasing number of owners are opting for home-prepared cooked or raw diets.
Although cats are obligate carnivores, vegetarian and vegan cat food are preferred by owners uncomfortable with feeding animal products to their pets. The US FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine has come out against vegetarian cat and dog food for health reasons.
Cats can be selective eaters. Although it is extremely rare for a cat to deliberately starve itself to the point of injury, in obese cats, the sudden loss of weight can cause a fatal condition called Feline Hepatic Lipidosis, a liver dysfunction which causes pathological loss of appetite and reinforces the starvation, which can lead to death within as little as 48 hours.
Pica is a condition in which animals chew or eat unusual things such as fabric, plastic or wool. In cats, this is mostly harmless as they do not digest most of it, but can be fatal or require surgical removal if a large amount of foreign material is ingested (for example, an entire sock). It tends to occur more often in Burmese, Oriental, Siamese and breeds with these in their ancestry.
Some houseplants are harmful to cats. For example, the leaves of the Easter Lily can cause permanent and life-threatening kidney damage to cats, and Philodendron are also poisonous to cats. The Cat Fanciers' Association has a full list of plants harmful to cats.
Paracetamol or acetaminophen (trade name Panadol and Tylenol) is extremely toxic to cats, and should not be given to them under any circumstances. Cats lack the necessary glucuronyl transferase enzymes to safely break paracetamol down and minute portions of a normal tablet for humans may prove fatal. Initial symptoms include vomiting, salivation and discolouration of the tongue and gums. After around two days, liver damage is evident, typically giving rise to jaundice. Unlike an overdose in humans, it is rarely liver damage that is the cause of death, instead methaemoglobin formation and the production of Heinz bodies in red blood cells inhibit oxygen transport by the blood, causing asphyxiation. Effective treatment is occasionally possible for small doses, but must be extremely rapid.
The following symptoms require urgent veterinary attention: Straining non-productively, breathing through the mouth, difficulty breathing, gums that are white or blue, fitting for longer than one minute, collapse. You should also take your cat to the vets urgently if it has been involved in a road traffic accident, fallen from a height, eaten anything poisonous or has been exposed to smoke. There are many other symptoms for which a cat requires veterinary attention.
If your cat has been declawed it should never be allowed outside without a leash. A declawed cat is defenseless. Not only will it not be able to strike back at another animal threatening it, it will also not be able to climb a tree to make an escape.
If your female cat has not been spayed , it should not be allowed outside when it comes into estrus or it may become pregnant (kittens, cute as they are, are sometimes difficult to find good homes for).
Un-neutered male cats should likewise not be allowed to roam, because they too will contribute to the problem of unwanted kittens.
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See the answers to part a above to refresh your memory on caring for cats. The owner will likely provide food for the cat, and it is best to feed it what it is used to.
Cats should not become feral because they tend to overbreed, creating ever-larger populations of feral cats. Feral cats can become a nuisance and cannot be approached by humans.
Feral cats may live alone but are usually found in large groups called feral colonies. The average life span of a feral cat that survives beyond kittenhood is usually cited as being less than two years, while a domestic housecat lives an average of 12 to 16 years.
Cities, Australia, and North America are not native environments for cats. The domestic cat comes from temperate or hot, dry climates and was distributed throughout the world by humans. Cats are extremely adaptable, and feral felines have been found in conditions of extreme cold and heat. They are more susceptible to cold, damp conditions than to cold alone. In addition, they are vulnerable to predators such as dogs, feral pigs, wolves, bears, cougars, bobcats, foxes, crocodilians, birds of prey, and coyotes.
Feral cats are often apex predators in local ecosystems, and their predation on small mammals and birds, particularly endangered ground-nesting birds, is of increasing concern. There is little doubt that feral cats are extremely effective at controlling or even eradicating small animal populations, and some cite[citation needed] the utility of cats in controlling populations of verminous rodent species. This is one of the major justifications for the keeping of farm cats. However, conservationists argue that feral cats contribute greatly to the killing of songbirds and other endangered birds, with estimates that bird loss is at 100 million a year due to predation.
Numerous Australian environmentalists and conservationists claim that the feral cat has been an ecological disaster in Australia, inhabiting most ecosystems except dense rainforest, and being implicated in the extinction of several marsupial and placental mammal species.
In the United States, there is debate about how to deal with feral cat populations - many municipalities make it legal to kill them and classify them as vermin or pests. Some advocate culling feral cat populations by hunting, arguing that it is the most cost-effective method of population control.
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) programs are facilitated by many volunteers and organizations in the United States. These organizations trap feral cats, sterilize them through neutering before releasing them. Variations of the program may include inoculation against rabies and other viruses and sometimes long-lasting flea treatments. Frequently, attending veterinarians cut the tip off one ear during spay/neuter surgery to mark the individual as being previously caught. Volunteers often continue to feed and give care to these cats throughout their lives. Many animal care experts believe that it is prohibitively difficult if not often impossible to domesticate and adopt a feral cat unless it is trapped and socialized before six weeks of age.
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In many countries the term humane society is used mostly for societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCA's).
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is any of a number of animal welfare organizations whose operations include protecting and providing shelter to animals in danger. The SPCAs are non-profit organizations that campaign for animal welfare and take in abused or abandoned animals, and help them to get adopted. See:
- Canadian Federation of Humane Societies
- Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Australia
- Singapore Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Société protectrice des animaux (France)
- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Hong Kong)
- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Selangor, Malaysia
- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals International
- Visakha Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Visakhapatnam, India)
- Zimbabwe Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- United States
- American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Texas
- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Monterey County, California
- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles
- San Francisco SPCA
- Virginia Beach SPCA
- United Kingdom
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — England and Wales
- Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — Scotland
- Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — Northern Ireland
