Editors:
- Written by experts from the UK, the USA and Switzerland
- Focuses on the major issues affecting the welfare of domestic cats
- Covers cat behaviour
- Assesses welfare, human-cat relationship and feline behaviour problems, cat overpopulation and feral cats, the impact of housing, disease, nutrition and breeding on welfare
Part of the book series: Animal Welfare (AWNS, volume 3)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This is the third volume in the series Animal Welfare by Species, edited by Clive Phillips, and the first on a companion animal species. In her Foreword, editor Irene Rochlitz claims that this volume was written with researchers, animal welfare organizations and cat owners in mind, and it certainly will be useful to all of those and more. I would like to commend the editor and all of the contributors for producing an extremely readable, up-to-date review and interpretation of our current knowledge about domestic cats, and how it applies to all aspects of cat welfare in all situations in which they live and are housed. Without a doubt this book represents a significant contribution to the domestic cat literature, and as the first (and only) book on cat welfare, will find a wide audience amongst both professionals and lay persons alike." (Dennis C. Turner, Animal Behavior, Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich and Institute of applied Ethology and Animal Psychology, I.E.A.P., Switzerland)
"This is the third volume of a series that addresses animal welfare from a species perspective. … it will be of particular interest to veterinarians, cattery and shelter managers, anyone involved with cats used in research, and policymakers responsible for cat populations and their impacts on society and the environment." (Julie Levy, Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 82, June, 2007)
Editors and Affiliations
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Animal Welfare and Human-animal Interactions Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Irene Rochlitz
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Welfare of Cats
Editors: Irene Rochlitz
Series Title: Animal Welfare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3227-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3226-4Published: 02 March 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6143-1Published: 27 April 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3227-1Published: 17 April 2007
Series ISSN: 1572-7408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 283
Topics: Zoology, Behavioral Sciences, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Animal Physiology