List of refrences and resources related to cats

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by Lydia Darbyshire. 17.Practical Handbook - The Complete Guide To Cat Care by Paddy Cutts. 18.Illustrated Encyclopedia Cat Breeds of World by Paddy Cutts. 19.Caring For Cats by Andrew Morris. 20.Mark Evans Animal Care - The Complete Guide To Kitten Care by Mitchell Beazley. 21.DK Multimedia Eyewitness virtual reality Cat CD - ROM. 22.Various websites related to cats and pets. The most important websites related to cats are-- http://encarta.msn.com http://www.catsinternational.org http://www.aniwa.com http://www.ivillage.com http://www.monpa.com http://www.petplace.com http://www.moggies.co.uk http://www.pbs.org/nature/excats http://animal.discovery.com/guides/cats/cats.html http://www.nhm.org/cats

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Intelligence of cats part-2

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owner's old home in Utah State after walking a distance of eight hundred fifty miles without any help. A cat returned back alone from Nievre in France to its owner's home in Stuttgart in south west Germany after walking a distance of about thousand kilometers without any help. Similarly a cat of England named Sooty returned back alone to its owner's old home after walking a distance of hundred miles without any help. A cat returned back alone to its owner's home after walking a distance of ninety miles without any help while another cat returned back alone to its owner's home after walking a distance of eighty miles without any help. Cats like to play games like chasing light, hide and seek and many ball games. Cats enjoy playing with toys and watching television. Many video cassettes specially designed for cats are now available in market. The cat toys include action toys, toy mouse, soft toys, Ping-Pong balls, catnip toys, race n'chase, feather toys, kitten mitten and balls. Toys for cats are available at http://www.cattoys.com/ , http://www.ferretstore.com/ and http://www.petsmart.com/. A CD-ROM game for cats that offers computer literate cat eleven big game options, including virtual mice, spiders and birds that skitter around is now available at internet site http://www.cyberpounce.com/. Cats are strongly attached to catnip. Catnip is strong scented mint that has whorls of small pale flowers in terminal spikes and contains a substance attractive to cats. The catnip is used in making many cat toys. For more information about cats visit website www.moggies.co.uk/index.html. Some outdoor cats themselves learn to cross traffic. Cats have also been employed in many glamorous jobs. Bob, weather cat is regular on a television station in Oregon wore sunglasses on bright days and earmuffs and a scarf when weather turned chilly. In England as recently as fifty years ago, thousands of cats were on government payrolls, working in offices, barracks, workshops and on docks. The National Printing Office of France has employed cats to protect its paper, as has USA postal service. The Butchers, Bakers, Grocers, restaurant owners, book store owners, stationary owners and food industry owners keep pet cats in order to keep their premises free of rats. The amount of love that a mother cat provides to her kittens is highest as compared to all other animals. The stray female cat is excellent mother. Cat understands when moment of giving birth is near. When time of giving birth is near, female cat begins to appear agitated and meows in a strange way, sweet and musical, a kind of request for help and response to what is approaching. The female cat try to give birth in a corner where she can eventually defend herself and newborn kittens from dogs and other animals. After giving birth mother cat will immediately free each kitten from sac, lick it, clean it and gently dry it. After giving birth, female cat transfer her litter from one hiding place to another in order to protect it from dogs and other animals. The mother cat clean and feed newborn kittens. The mother cat teach its kittens to play, to hunt, to climb, to clean and to use toilet. When living outdoors, cat learns to protect itself from cold and rain by taking refuge in a doorway basement or in abandoned box. When end of life of cat is near, cat try to find a secluded spot in which to die with dignity, either under a bush, in trunk of a tree or a crumbled hut so as not to disturb or be disturbed in moment of most quiet sleep. Many cats are now working in movies. Morris was famous cat who worked on television. Cats specially wild cats like lion perform in circus. Toonces, a male cat was so much intelligent that he was able to actually drive car, truck and tractor. Toonces liked to ride bicycle. Toonces was also able to communicate in English by means of typing. Toonces worked in 1988 in NBC's Saturday Night Live in which he actually drove cars. Toonces was one of most talented cats on television. Toonces worked at Saturday night live with many familiar celebrities. The television parents of Toonces were Saturday Night Live regulars Victoria Jackson and Dana Carvey. Toonces also worked at Saturday Night Live with many other co - stars like Steve Martin, Andrea Martin, Randy Quaid. Video film of Toonces driving car can be downloaded at website www.catass.com oonces and at website www.whataboutcats/mpeg_toonces.html. Video film of toonces driving car is now available at http://www.amazon.com/. For more information about Toonces visit website www.wrona.com oonces.html and also visit website www.mavericktimes.com oonces.html . A cat named Pepper was a motion picture cat who starred next to comedian Charlie Chaplin. Britain's best known television cat was Arthur. Arthur starred in more than three hundred television commercials between 1966 and 1975. Thomas Alva Edison Inc. manufacturing company of scientist Thomas Alva Edison earliest movies showed two cats fighting boxing in a ring. Many cats are now working in movies. Visit movie cats page at www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~zimmerth/mcp/. According to news published in newspaper, in June 2001, a cat named Borris managed to order 450 cans of its favourite food on an internet shopping site when its owner was not looking. According to website of T.V Series of Animal Planet channel of Discovery channel, some cats also enjoy surfing internet. A software to prevent use of computer and internet by cats is now available at website http://www.pawsense.com/ and at website www.bitboost.com/bb_welcome.html. A book named Cats Into Everything by Bob Walker is now available at website http://www.amazon.com/.

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