Top Research Papers on Cats

Introduction: Despite the considerable recent interest in the human–animal bond, the relationship between community cat caregivers and the cats they care for has received relatively little attention. In addition, the instruments typically used to measure the human–animal bond contain questions specific to in-home interactions with pets or interactions representative of specific behavior traits of the animal (e.g. lap-sitting), effectively excluding community cat caregivers. Methods: Using a slightly modified version of the Comfort from Companion Animals Scale, we surveyed community cat caregiv...

Most research examining cat behavior in multi-cat households lacks focus on one group size. This gap in knowledge reduces generalizability of research findings to specific compositions of cats in multi-cat households. Given that many cat-owning households in Canada and the US are comprised of two cats, the following study used a cross-sectional survey to explore cat owners' perceptions of the cat-cat relationship in two-cat households in Canada and the US. A total of 6,529 owners of two cats completed the online questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data and a logist...

The results suggest the need for community-based programs that focus on sterilizing owned and semi-owned cats, and assisting semi-owners in becoming full owners to reduce stray cat populations and associated negative impacts.

The MorGen proved useful in predicting PPA variant, with age, plural -s, noun, and number contributing significantly to the prediction, and classification of cases was best for agrammatic variant with 70% accuracy.

This study is the first report on the prevalence and molecular characterization of Bartonella spp.

The DCH strains circulating in Hong Kong are a continuum of the Asiatic strains, and sequence analysis found that DCH has similar epsilon and direct repeat regions to human HBV, suggesting a conserved method of replication.

The clinician must engage in shared decision-making as to what type of environmental changes that the patient is willing to make and what treatment options, if any, they are ready to accept, recognizing that most patients will prefer to keep their cats.

The European Advisory Board on Cat Diseases (ABCD), a scientifically independent board of experts in feline medicine from 11 European countries, presents the current knowledge of FCV infection and fills gaps with expert opinions.

A comprehensive review of work done at Arm on the consistency model is presented, showing that the principle for handling mixed-size accesses applies to x86 and that the alternative formulations are applicable to any model phrased in a style similar to the one chosen by Arm.

Free‐roaming domestic cats pose risks to wildlife, domestic animals, humans, and importantly, the cats themselves. Behavior change campaigns that seek to minimize these risks by increasing cat containment require an understanding of the factors that predict cat owners' containment behaviors. We conducted an online survey in Victoria, Australia (N = 1,024) to identify cat owners' (N = 220) behaviors in containing their cats, explore beliefs and attitudes that predict containment behavior, and compare attitudes about cat containment with respondents that do not own cats (N = 804). We found that ...

Domestic cat hepadnavirus infection was associated with high serum activity of liver enzymes and chronic lymphoplasmacytic hepatitis (LPH) and there was hepatocyte proliferation activity in DHC positive cats.

The DepreST-CAT dataset is a valuable resource for the research community to model communication patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic and further the development of machine learning algorithms for passive mental illness screening.

Investigation of the DCH infection rate of cat samples collected in Japan found one positive blood sample from a 17-year-old female cat with chronically elevated alanine aminotransferase, demonstrating that the D CH strain identified in this study is genetically distinct from strains in other countries.

In quantum information processing, two primary research directions have emerged: one based on discrete variables (DV) and the other on the structure of quantum states in a continuous-variable (CV) space. Integrating these two approaches could unlock new potentials, overcoming their respective limitations. Here, we show that such a DV-CV hybrid approach, applied to superconducting Kerr parametric oscillators (KPOs), enables us to entangle a pair of Schr\"odinger's cat states by two methods. The first involves the entanglement-preserving conversion between Bell states in the Fock-state basis (DV...

The use of FAST CAT is discussed in the context of a European project of Maritime History, called SeaLiT, which examines economic, social and demographic impacts of the introduction of steamboats in the Mediterranean area between the 1850s and the 1920s.

Subclinically infected wild and domestic animals, including cats, are reservoir hosts and a potential source of infection, and cats rarely develop clinical signs, but they can be infected with Leptospira spp.

Simple Summary Studies regarding the cat-owner bond are quite rare, and several aspects like personality trait differences in cats related to coat color and the cat-owner relationship require more research. With that purpose, we apply a survey to 211 cat-owners from Mexico. Owners perceived their cats as being bold and friendly. Gray cats had the highest score for being as shy, aloof and intolerant, while orange cats had the highest scores for being trainable, friendly and calm. Tabbies the highest for bold and active, tricolor cats for stubborn, and bicolor cats for tolerant. Higher cat-owner...

This study failed to demonstrate a conclusive link between DCH and uveitis in cats, although further studies to investigate an association with other feline diseases are warranted.

This research uses an online questionnaire (n = 1148) to survey the Bulgarian public's attitudes and behaviors toward owned and stray cats and explore potential barriers to stray cat population management. Generally, the survey participants indicated positive attitudes toward stray cats, with 82.0% of the respondents reporting feeling sorry for stray cats. Semi-ownership behaviors were prevalent, with 82.5% feeding stray cats but only 18.1% neutering the cats they fed, posing a barrier to stray cat management. Overall, the respondents held mixed attitudes toward neutering. Of all cat owners sa...

A large proportion of cats with CE had an altered fecal microbiota as evidenced by an increased dysbiosis index (DI), and a qPCR-based DI for assessing the fecal microbiome of cats was established.

Abstract Domestic cat hepadnavirus (DCH), a relative hepatitis B virus (HBV) in human, has been recently identified in cats; however, association of DCH infection with lymphoma in cats is not investigated. To determine the association between DCH infection and feline lymphoma, seven hundred and seventeen cats included 131 cats with lymphoma (68 blood and 63 tumor samples) and 586 (526 blood and 60 lymph node samples) cats without lymphoma. DCH DNA was investigated in blood and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). The FFPE lymphoma ti...

The type of cat–owner bond that develops is the product of the dynamic that exists between both the individuals involved, along with certain personality features, of which, the wider sociability of the cat and owner expectations may be particularly important.

This review summarises the available published data on how human allergy to cats affects cat ownership and considers the implications of the findings on the wider human-cat bond and how adverse effects can be minimised.

The PV life cycle and the subsequent immune response is briefly discussed along with methods used to investigate a PV etiology of a lesion, and the seven PV types that are currently known to infect cats are reviewed.

Two hundred and six cats, aged between 7 and 10 years, from the North-west of the UK, were enrolled in a cat aging and welfare study to determine the frequency of age-related conditions and associations with husbandry, owner observations of physical appearance, activity and behavior.

The Computational Anatomy Toolbox (CAT) a powerful suite of tools for morphometric analyses with an intuitive graphical user interface, but also usable as a shell script, suitable for beginners, casual users, experts, and developers alike.

Simple Summary Free-roaming cats in urban areas frequently cause complaints. In Australia, cats are classed as domestic or feral depending on how and where they live, with cat management practices varying depending on the cats’ classification. Cats classified as feral can be managed, when considered appropriate by authorities, by shooting them. In 2020, this approach was employed to manage urban cats being fed daily by cat caregivers. This qualitative study aimed to document the lived experience of these cat caregivers to understand their motivations for caregiving and their relationships with...

Understanding the diversity of circulating DCH will contribute to its prevention and control in domestic cats, and understanding the correlation between DCH infection and hepatic diseases remains to be elucidated.

Objectives The importance of the effects of stress on cats is well recognised, with visits to the veterinary clinic a common cause of stress. The aim of this study was to explore owners’ experiences of stress, both for themselves and their cat, during veterinary visits, and to gather data on owners’ perception of resources within the clinic to reduce stress in their cats. Methods A questionnaire aimed at cat owners with recent experience of an outpatient visit to the veterinary clinic was developed and distributed. Questions covered demographics; their most recent veterinary visit; their gener...

ネコを愛するあなた、そしてアンディ・ウォーホルのファンたちよ、よろこんで！ポップアート界のスーパースター、ウォーホルが１９５０年代を中心に描きつづけていた、愛すべき存在は—“ネコ”主役は、おすまし顔のネコ、おちゃめなネコ、キュートでときにはゴージャスな“サムという名の２５匹のネコたちと１匹の子ネコちゃん”。ありのままのウォーホルに、独自のユニークなことば。自宅で２６匹のネコたちに囲まれた生活していた、ほほえましいほどのウォーホルにきっと出会えるはずです。本書は、熱烈にネコとウォーホルを愛する“あなた”だけに捧げるギフトです。

A patient complaining of swelling and tenderness in her left axilla was diagnosed with cat scratch disease despite no apparent history of cat exposure.

Empirical evidence is provided that cats can be placed into foster homes, even for short periods of time, when shelter space is limited, and cat fostering—even short-term fostering—does not appear to be more stressful or problematic for this species than remaining in a shelter.

This work presents a variational inference scheme to learn a model that solves the Schrödinger Bridge Problem and shows that this model is able to learn the transformation between the Gaussian distribution and arbitrary data, as well as learning dynamics that follow a potential function.

Play is often considered an indicator and promotor of animal welfare and may facilitate closer cat-human relationships. However, few studies have empirically investigated these associations. The current study aimed to investigate play-related factors associated with four welfare outcome measures in cats (Felis catus) including: cat quality of life; cat-guardian relationship quality; problem behaviour prevalence; and behavioural changes. An online survey was developed using demographic information, questions related to play and resources, free text sections and the following validated measures:...

This guideline summarizes the available scientific studies and fills in the gaps with expert opinion, where scientific studies are missing, to help veterinarians with their decision-making in how best to vaccinate immunocompromised cats.

Histologic confirmation of more than 2 testes is needed to establish a diagnosis of polyorchidism, a rare congenital anomaly that has been reported infrequently in the veterinary literature; reports have been of animals with triorchidistan, with the exception of 1 cat with 4 intraabdominal testes.

Timothy grass allergy may play a role in the development of cat sensitization; however, further research is needed to clarify these associations and the underlying mechanisms.

The specific considerations about barriers and motivations for cat owners and veterinarians that are required to guide strategic, tailored interventions for both audiences to advance stewardship are provided.

The welfare of pet cats, as reported by the owners, was not adversely affected by the pandemic and the human-cat interaction had positive effects on the owners during the lockdown.

This work argues that the case of cat qubits stabilized by a nonlinear multi-photon driven dissipation process with superconducting circuits can be seen as a self-correcting qubit where bit-flip errors are robustly and exponentially suppressed.

The characteristics of cat semi-owners are described and compared with the general population of cat owners and non-cat owners to inform future cat management interventions.

This extensive experiment indicates that the CSCSO algorithm excels in providing acceptable results, with 76.3% better responses compared to a best-developed SCSO variant and other chaotic-based metaheuristics tested.

This study is the first to provide evidence of CanineCV infection in cats and successfully obtained the first whole genome of cat-derived Canine CV, a virus associated with respiratory and digestive diseases in dogs.

The diversity and richness of the gut microbiota in the Felinae cats were much higher than in the Ragdoll cats, and PICRUSt function analyses indicated that the differences in microbial genes might influence the energy metabolism and immune functions of the host.

Simple Summary Free-roaming cats in urban areas are a source of nuisance complaints. In Australia, legislation relating to requirements that cat owners microchip and contain their cats on their property has been largely ineffective in reducing the number of free-roaming cats, because most are strays with no owner. Cats causing nuisance complaints are typically trapped and impounded, but only 7% of cats entering local government facilities are reclaimed by owners, with the remaining either rehomed or euthanized. Many healthy cats are euthanized, negatively impacting the staff involved. In 2013,...

The Siberian cat has helped to decipher one of the golden phenotypes observed in cats and it is proposed that the CORIN:c.2383C>T variant represents the wbSIB (Siberian recessive wideband) allele in the domestic cat.

The aim of this project was to assimilate the available published knowledge into a single accessible referenced resource and to provide expert clinical guidance to support professional colleagues as they navigate current melanoma challenges and controversies.

The differences in eukaryotic virome composition revealed here indicate that further investigations are warranted to determine associations between enteric viral co‐infections on clinical disease severity in cats with FPL.

It is confirmed that jungle cats are DDF specialists that likely persist in low numbers due to the harsh conditions of the dry season in this habitat, including annual fires and substantial decreases in small vertebrate prey.

Sensitization to molecular allergens was observed in 90.9% of cat‐sensitized subjects and showed variations across participants' background characteristics and the presence of asthma.