Breeding Pedigreed Cats
Second Edition

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 (2^nd ed.) have been 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.

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.

From the Book

o Table of Contents

o A Help Box

o A Warning Box

Interesting and Informative

· Read a wonderful piece by Layla Morgan Wilde about Jackson Galaxy, a cat behaviorist who has a show on Animal Planet.

· 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 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 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.

· 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.

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Last revised: May 26, 2011.

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Breeding Pedigreed Cats Second Edition