81. Wild Feline Husbandry Course husbandry of wild felines. The course is suitable for both novices and Natural History of wild felines; Regulatory Agencies Permits; Facility Design http://www.wildfeline.org/intro.htm

Basic Wild Feline Husbandry Course The Feline Conservation Federation offers a Basic Wild Feline Husbandry Course. This is an 8 hour course that focuses on responsible captive husbandry of wild felines. The course is suitable for both novices and "old hands" who want to improve their level of knowledge. Husbandry course, presented by FCF Education Director Tracy Wilson. This course was professionally developed in accordance with a nationally recognized standard for technical training known as the Systematic Approach to Training (SAT). The course includes an instructor lead, multi-media presentation, a 83 page student text, workshops, and final exam. Students who pass the exam receive a decorative certificate denoting successful completion of the course. Topics Covered Include: Natural History of Wild Felines Facility Design Handling Equipment Diet / Nutrition Health Care Basics Behavior Conditioning Contingency Planning Course Fee: $65 for FCF members, $95 for nonmembers.

82. Wild Feline Husbandry Course On Saturday, August 9th, FCF will feature a day of educational speakers on a variety of topics concerning wild felines. For more convention information and http://www.wildfeline.org/hebron.htm

83. Cat Welfare Society Of Israel dining ease is a great place to call home by domestic felines turned wild. In a perfect world, residents would own their cats, all felines would be http://www.cats.org.il/eng/letart/knapp.html

Add me to CWSI's e-mail update list Feral Cat Colony Control TTVAR-M Method by Dan Knapp Feral Cats- A Growing Concern In alleys, parks, and by freeways. Near fast food restaurants, on college campuses, and vacant lots. Feral cat colonies are everywhere. Almost as a contradiction, cats are asocial creatures who group together to claim and defend a territory invisible to us, but well defined by them. Created by a combination of abandonment and uncontrolled breeding, these groupings, called colonies, take hold in areas where humans willingly or wantonly provide a ready supply of food. It is surprising that native food sources such as birds, reptiles or insects do not usually determine the location of feral colonies. Instead- and most probably due to their opportunistic nature- cats choose their territory by the availability of scavengable items, such as garbage or food left out by a compassionate human. Consequently, any public area that provides this dining ease is a great place to call home by domestic felines turned wild.

84. Heroic Felines The first house cat, in fact, may have been a small wild cat with a yellowish coat felines appear in paintings and sculptures from ancient Greece, Rome, http://www.moggies.co.uk/html/heroic_felines.html

Back to Heroic Feline Index Heroic Feline Stories To most people, Bart the cat may look like just another tabby. But to high school student Jose Ybara and his mother, the mischievous Illinois feline is a hero. One night a few years ago, just before the break of dawn, Jose lay in his bed suffering from a sudden, life-threatening seizure. Bart, apparently alarmed by Jose's distress, leapt upon the mother's bed in the next room. "She was licking my mom's eyelids, scratching and miaowing, doing anything she could to wake her up," Jose later told reporters. The warning worked: Jose made it to a nearby hospital and his life was saved. And, in a historic first, the Illinois government honoured Bart for her "ingenuity and persistence" in the rescue. Amazing? Yes. But no more remarkable than the many exceptional cats profiled in the Nature program Extraordinary Cats. From Sooty , the English cat who found his way over 100 miles back home, to Scarlett , who risked her own life to save her five kittens from a burning building, Extraordinary Cats profiles the incredible exploits that even the most complacent fat cat can perform. It also highlights the remarkable bonds that people have forged with these once wild creatures, from convicts who find a second chance by grooming their silky fur to psychologists who try to help cats from driving their owners crazy. Cats and people have a relationship that goes back a long way. Scholars believe that people first welcomed cats into their homes in North Africa more than 2,500 years ago. The partnership was born out of mutual benefit: people welcomed the cats because they killed the mice and rats that threatened to eat their hoards of grain; the cats, in turn, got shelter and a stable food supply.

85. The Peak (30/11/1998) Features: On The Prowl wild felines are endangered from the demand for the illegal pet trade most active in Asia and Africa where they are sold in street markets aimed at tourists http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/98-3/issue13/prowl.html

issue 13, vol 100 November 30, 1998 this issue past issues contact search On The Prowl vincent lizee The 1996 World Conservation Congress concluded a quarter of all mammal species are endangered . Some of these species are of the biological family of felids, or cats. Some are already extinct like the Barbary lion, the Caspian tiger and the Arizona jaguar. Some seem certain to go extinct within the next decade since the populations are too small for healthy breeding like the Arabian leopard and the Chinese tiger. The future for some 72 per cent of all cat species is uncertain from years of habitat destruction and hunting that have decimated wild cat populations. This grim scenario has compelled some conservationists and other concerned individuals to form an organization specifically dedicated to preserving felines called the International Society for Endangered Cats (ISEC). "I think just a concern for small cats" explains Tania James, B.C. Division director, siting the reason for ISEC's formation. "There are so many other organizations. Everybody has heard of a tiger, everybody has heard of a lion, everybody has heard of a cheetah but very few people have heard of a black footed cat or a sand cat or a Geoffrey's cat or a Pallas' cat." Concern for cat conservation follows from the concern to preserve the biosphere. Cats, big and small, prey on a variety of herbivores that if left unchecked would ravage the plant life that they depend on. Wild rodents would undergo a population explosion pushing them into human settlements to become farming pests and disease carriers. Conservation is important in protecting felines as natural wonders and as icons of strength and prowess as exemplified by their use in emblems, advertising, stories, and novelties made in their image. All of these uses would be lost forever if many feline species become extinct.

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87. Felines In Fantasy Fantasy novels about felines, such as Tailchaser s Song by Tad Williams, have been among I ll use Tailchaser s Song and The wild Road as examples here. http://fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue10/Themefelinesin.htm

Vision: A Resource for Writers Lazette Gifford, Editor Vision@sff.net Holly Lisle's Vision Felines in Fantasy: Cliché or Clichéd? By Heidi Elizabeth Smith Heidi Elizabeth Smith I recently learned that many speculative fiction readers consider felineand animal, in generalcharacters to be clichéd, to the point where magazines state in their guidelines, "No Cat Stories." As an unabashed cat-lover and an author of multiple stories (unpublished and currently in revision) featuring feline or felinoid main characters, I was surprised and, to tell the truth, a little shocked. Fantasy novels about felines, such as Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams, have been among my favorites. I decided to do a little analytical research on my own work, and the works of others, in the hopes of figuring out just where that mind-set, for lack of a better word, comes from. I went into my local Barnes and Noble and noticed the amount of feline-related novels or serials on their shelves, including the Catfantastic and Man-Kzin Wars anthologies, Lisanne Norman's

88. Wildcat - Definition Of Wildcat By The Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus And Enc in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. wild cat, wildcats. wild·cat Pronunciation (w ld k t ). n. 1. Any of various wild felines of http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wildcat

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89. AnimalSheltering.org taken in by the Houston SPCA, which housed 11 large wild felines last year. and Web sites continue to extol the virtues of owning wild baby felines, http://www.hsus2.org/sheltering/magazine/currentissue/may_jun00/frontlines_usda.

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90. Cães & Cia On-Line - Your Favourite Pet - Cats - Bengal directly from the wild cats (felines), but behaves as a domestic cat. Bengal To breed a cat as beautiful as the wild felines, but sweet as the cats. http://www.petbrazil.com.br/en/pets/cats/080.htm

BENGAL: SWEET HEIR FROM THE JUNGLE Recent and unique, this breed descends directly from the wild cats (felines), but behaves as a domestic cat. To breed a cat as beautiful as the wild felines, but sweet as the cats. This was the challenge faced by Jean Mill, who lives in California, USA, in order to breed the Bengal. It's a story that started 30 years ago, and envolves dedication, plus a little luck. Jean, who majored in psichology and did graduate work in genetics, has always loved cats. In 1963 she bought an Asian leopard (Felis prionailurus bengalensis), a wild feline the size of a cat, found in Malasia, Bangladesh and India. It was a female, and she put it with a domestic cat. They had a hybrid kitten (coming from different species), which was named Kin Kin. The Asian leopard has the same number of chromossomes as the domestic cat, which is essencial, when they mate, to produce fertile cats. However, it is also mandatory that the genes of both animals be distributed in the chromossomes similarly, which not always happens. That is why Jean was amazed when Kin Kin, by her turn, gave birth to a beautiful brood. With the death of her husband, in 1965, Jean moved from the farm where she lived in Yuma, Arizona, to an apartment in California, and abandoned her hobbie. This experiment, therefore, has had no influence in the current blood lines of the Bengal. Jean only went on with her work when she got married again. She moved to a small farm in 1975. At that time, researcher Willard Center-Wall bred Asian leopards with domestic cats in order to isolate the gene which made them immune to feline leukemia. Jean managed to start taking care of these kittens. In a trip to India, in 1980, she saw a cat on the street which resembled an Asian leopard. She took it to the USA, and bred it com as hybrid females. She called him Milwood Tory of Delhi.

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92. Seeking The Missing Lynx - National Wildlife Magazine Still, DNA analysis of wild felines was difficult. For decades, the tool of choice for studying wild felines had been radio telemetry, which required http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/printerFriendly.cfm?issueID=15&articleID=114

93. Wild Cats Of The World Coloring Book 41 readyto-be-colored line drawings of wild felines lion, tiger, ocelot, Spanish lynx, other lesser-known species. Informative introduction; identifying http://store.doverpublications.com/0486256383.html

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94. NEWS: Auburn Cat Lover Travels To Africa To Help Lions (4/16/01) Meet cat lover Lou Ann Kelsheimer as a volunteer at wild About Cats, an Auburn sanctuary aimed at rescuing and preserving wild felines. http://www.kovr13.com/04apr01/041601d.htm

KOVR 13 / NEWS AND SPORTS / NEWS STORY Auburn cat lover travels to Africa to help lions REPORTER Jodi Hernandez PHOTOGRAPHER KOVR 13 News APPEARED ON News at 6:00 (4/16/01) Lou Ann Kelsheimer spends her free time caring for big kitties. A northern California woman is proving she is more than "wild about cats." Next week the cat lover will travel to Africa to help save lions from a devastating disease. As Jodi Hernandez reports, it is all part of an Auburn group's efforts to preserve big cats. Kelsheimer will join a team of researchers working to relocate lions to uninfected areas. Lou Ann Kelsheimer / Wild Cat Volunteer: "If I could pick one sound to hear for the rest of my life it would be the purr." Meet cat lover Lou Ann Kelsheimer as a volunteer at Wild About Cats, an Auburn sanctuary aimed at rescuing and preserving wild felines. Kelsheimer spends her free time caring for big kitties. Lou Ann Kelsheimer / Wild Cat Volunteer: "I don't know if there are words to describe it. It's the most rewarding thing you can possibly imagine." But, Kelsheimer is about to take her love of cats to a whole new level. Next week the wild cat volunteer will travel to Africa where a tuberculosis outbreak is wiping out the lion population.

95. Wild Feline Husbandry Course Success exam receive a decorative certificate denoting successful completion of the course. Topics Covered Include Natural History of wild felines, Regulatory http://www2.arkansas.net/~culvers/page9.html

The Feline Conservation Federation is hosting the next FCF Wild Feline Husbandry Course! Don't miss this great opportunity for continuing education When: Wednesday July 28 8:00 am to 6:00 pm Where: New Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, NV Price: $65.00 FCF members, $95.00 others FCF Membership is only $30, so consider joining! www.felineconservation.org Mail registration form and check made out to: FCF, 3310 Remington Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46227 This is an 8 hour course that focuses on responsible captive husbandry of wild felines. The course is suitable for both novices and "old hands" who want to improve their level of knowledge. This course was professionally developed in accordance with a nationally recognized standard for technical training known as the Systematic Approach to Training (SAT). The course includes an instructor lead, multi-media presentation, a 83 page student text, workshops, and final exam. Students who pass the exam receive a decorative certificate denoting successful completion of the course. Topics Covered Include: Natural History of Wild Felines, Regulatory

96. Brazilian Journal Of Medical And Biological Research - B Plasma Plasma cortisol levels in captive wild felines after chemical restraint Key words wild felines, plasma cortisol, captive felines http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0100-879X1997001100016&script=sci_arttext&t

97. Wild Cats - Books - Sierra Club wildlife expert and bestselling author Candace Savage presents intimate portraits of three wild felines - the lynx, bobcat, and mountain lion - that live http://www.sierraclub.org/books/catalog/0871564246.asp

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98. Tiger Touch - Why Sanctuaries Exist the tiger touch mission for the endangered felines. OUR SHRINKING PLANET The wild places where the food web works the way nature intended are getting http://www.tigertouch.org/mission.html

ESSAY: WHY SANCTUARIES EXIST by John Williamson DIVERSITY EQUALS SURVIVAL: Preserving genetic diversity is vital to the survival of threatened and endangered felines. Gerald Aquilina, curator of the Buffalo N.Y. Zoo, says "Numbers are the only thing that are going to support and maintain exotic wildlife." To get these numbers we must go beyond traditional conservation practices and encourage responsible private stewardship. We are finding ways to make exotic felines more attractive as companions and more acceptable to potential caretakers and an uncertain public. WHAT ABOUT PARKS AND ZOOS? Helping wild populations is very important. Still, we cannot let the success or failure of species preservation rest on in-situ efforts alone given the growing destruction of habitat, poaching, decline of biodiversity, and ever encroaching human population. Every 20 minutes, the world adds another 3,500 human lives but loses one or more entire species of animal or plant life. Zoo breeding programs certainly help, but with limited space and rising costs, zoos are not well suited to the preservation of many species. HOW WE CAN HELP: Since nature preserves and zoos are not enough, it is vital that we create a cooperative network of responsible, knowledgeable, mini-sanctuaries within the private sector. Without a lot of help from responsible private caretakers, sooner or later there will be calls for drastic, last ditch measures to preserve whatever small gene pools remain until "better" strategies can be developed. By then it may be too late. Such last ditch efforts will result in small, isolated genetic islands without the strength to continue a healthy species. There would be no going back.

99. Forgotten Felines Forgotten felines is a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 and based in Santa The offsprings of these abandoned domesticated cats become feral (wild) http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/felines.html

Uncle Mal's Personal Tribute to Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County Uncle Mal with Smokie Photo scanning by Big Dave Uncle Mal has been an active volunteer for Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County since its beginning joining immediately after he looked out of his bedroom window one day in April 1990 and saw three abandoned mama cats with each three tiny kittens playing in his garden. These 12 cats are now part of his happy family of about 20 "children" he cares for, including Smokie, Sweetie, Mamma, Baby, Spunky, Fluffy, Greedy, Vince, Pumpkin, Goofy, Grandma, Blackie, Rusty, Spot, Grandpa, Pinky, Kitty, and Misty. Other critters, such as opossums, raccoons and dogs, also know that they'll always find fresh food and clean water on this two-legged sucker's back porch. He computerized FFSC operations, maintains the database of members, typesets business forms and prints labels, used to print the newsletter, has trapped and fostered feral cats, and for the past five years has spent one day a week at the shelter cleaning, and playing with his beloved pussies. Uncle Mal is one of the few token males of this almost exclusively female group of dedicated and selfless volunteers. Forgotten Felines of Sonoma County Forgotten Felines is a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 and based in Santa Rosa, California. This all-volunteer group is dedicated to the care and control of the feral cat population. FFSC's 800 members, supporters and volunteers have helped prevent the birth of well over one hundred thousand homeless cats.

100. Herbiv Carnivores are divided into three main groups canines, felines, and pinnipeds. All those who meet the wild dog are struck by its energetic, http://www.animalinyou.com/carn.htm

All carnivores share a propensity for being bossy, competitive, territorial, and overly aggressive. They are also intelligent, enthusiastic and infused with boundless optimism. With their physical strength and high level of self-esteem, they excel as managers, policemen, doctors, lawyers, athletes, scientists, politicians and builders. Carnivores are divided into three main groups: canines, felines, and pinnipeds Canines Of the three groups, the canines are the most family oriented and the least selfish. Valuing friendship and companionship above all else, they are honest and emotionally expressive, albeit somewhat eccentric. The canine family includes domestic dogs, foxes, wolves, wild dogs, and their close relatives the bears . Brave and selfless, they are good looking individuals and almost always in fine physical condition. With an overabundance of energy and an affinity for play, they are earnest and conscientious about their careers. With their exceptionally advanced sex drives, canines are highly tactile and place great importance on the hierarchy of their social structure. Their obsession with the roles of dominance and submission helps to maintain order in their relationships, and although some canines take on the leadership position, most are happy to simply run with the pack. Dog It's difficult to recognize a dog from its physical characteristics alone since they come in all shapes and sizes. but regardless of their proportions, they are demonstrative, gregarious, and invariably eager to please.

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