Breeding Pedigreed Cats
Second Edition
NOW
AVAILABLE! IN STOCK!
The most highly praised book for novice and experienced responsible
breeders of pedigreed cats is back - bigger, better, and more affordable!
Protecting Your Right to Breed Pedigreed Cats!
The co-authors
of Breeding Pedigreed Cats (2nd ed.) will be donating a portion of their royalties from sales of their book,
from what ever source, to the Sy Howard Legislative Fund to help in the fight to protect our
rights to breed pedigreed cats. The Sy
Howard Legislative Fund provides support
in the ongoing fight against anti-breeder legislation and ordinances, such as those now pending in places from
the District of Columbia to California.
These donations will start immediately and continue indefinately.

Written by breeders for
breeders!
From the Award-winning Authors of Robinson’s
Genetics for Cat Breeders and Veterinarians (4th Edition, 1999), Breeding Pedigreed Cats (1997), and In The Spotlight:A Guide To Showing
Pedigreed And Household Pet Cats (1990).
Easier to use – At the suggestion of breeders, the book is spiral
bound – so you can keep it open to a critical section when you most need it!
Up-to-date – Covers legal issues impacting breeding pedigreed
cats, as well as the latest problems transporting
cats.
Expanded – 10% longer, including coverage of the Cat Fancy
around the world, and a bigger
Glossary of key terms.
More
pictures –
In addition to its groundbreaking photos of a kitten being born and delivered, it includes helpful photos on
subjects like bottle-feeding newborns.
Brand new appendix – With contact information
on major registries around the world, plus resources on subjects from blood
typing to poison emergencies.
Affordable – The first edition retailed for $24.95 (over 10
years ago!) and has been selling in the used book market at $150.00 or more.
This edition is just $24.00 (plus postage and
handling).
From the Book
Useful Links
- For an
inside look at HSUS and its failure to help shelters with all of the money
it collects, visit Center for Consumer Freedom’s HumaneWatch.org.
- Read
Carolyn’s book review of a delightful new work, “Cat Confessions”.
·
“In a landmark
RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) lawsuit certain to
have far-reaching implications for the animal rights movement, Feld
Entertainment and the Ringling Brothers circus sued the Humane Society of the
United States (HSUS), its lawyers, and several other animal rights groups last
week. The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom … is making the lawsuit
available online at its newest website, www.HumaneWatch.org.
Feld leveled bribery, fraud, obstruction of justice, and money laundering
charges against HSUS and two of its corporate attorneys; three other animal
rights groups; the Washington, DC law firm of Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal;
and all three of that firm’s named partners.” From Feb. 22, 2010 press release
from CCF.
- For a
wonderful piece on maintaining our rights to keep pets, watch the You Tube
piece from the Pet
Industry Joint Advisory Council.
- In a
precedent-setting decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
has upheld the convictions of Stop
Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, an animal rights group, and individual
members of conspiracy
to violate the Animal Enterprise Protection Act in their harassment
campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences, its suppliers, employees and
even shareholders. This case paints an in-depth picture of how this group
worked to commit illegal act while pretending it was simply reporting what
others did.
- Read some of the important findings of a new
federal case, affirming that pets (here dogs) are property and are
entitled to due process protections. A couple of key phrases have been
highlighted for you.
- Get access to an out-of-print classic, Dr. Niels C.
Pedersen’s Feline Husbandry. As the UC Davis Center for Companion
Animal Health puts it, “large parts of the text are both current and
relevant.” Click
here for access to the website with the book in PDF files.
- Learn
about an award-winning series of middle
grade children's mystery novels for ages 7 and up, featuring the feline
Sleuth, Purrlock Holmes.
“This is a story that will make
you laugh and cry. It is intricate, thoughtful, and covers the world from the
animals’ point of view. The cat conniptions are hysterical. I never say the
ending coming but I certainly did enjoy it.”
Carolyn
M. Vella.
- For a
wonderful interactive book for children, look at the almost 2 dozen
pedigreed cats in the new book, Cat.
- Do you
want to see just how beautiful pedigreed cats are? Click here to watch
a 3 minute video morphing 50
breeds, some of which are “endangered”. Click
here to read or download a
short paper on which pedigreed
cat breeds would be labeled as endangered if they were in the wild.
- Press
release from the Winn Foundation supplementing the materials in the
book on feline blood types.
- Winn Feline
Foundation newsletters
- Data
on pedigreed cats. Did you know that less than 3.5% of all cats in US
households are pedigreed? Click here to read or
download a working
paper on this. Feel free to send us comments on it.
- Are
some breeds of pedigreed cats becoming extinct? Read and comment on a working
paper on this, too.
- For information
on how groups target the breeding of pedigreed cats, read this
article, copyright 2007, and reprinted with the permission of NRA-ILA.
All rights reserved.
- Read a
2008 Department of Homeland Security report identifying PETA and HSUS as
“organizations with known or possible links to eco-terrorism” (p.9).
Robinson’s Genetics for Cat
Breeders and Veterinarians (4th Edition, 1999, Butterworth-Heinemann)
For those
who have purchased this book, Carolyn and John, as two of the four co-authors,
are providing the latest update sheet of typos from the book. Some of these
have been corrected in recent
printings, but, if you have purchased the book, check them out to make sure by
clicking here for a PDF
version or a Word
version. If you have any others that you have found, please contact us at info@breedingpedigreedcats.com.
Thanks.
Please feel free to suggest additional links.
Last
revised: June 18, 2010
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