Cat Fancy Magazine Reviewed

The monthly cat fancy magazine really excels at providing valuable health and behavioural information about your cat.

They have vet health articles, monthly guidelines for caring for your cat, and excellent entertaining stories, pictures, and poems about cats from readers. Submit your own and immortalise your cat!

Cat fancy magazine articles about cat health in the past have covered topics such as - constipation in cat; aggression in cats; how to recognise urinary tract disease early and why this is so critical; hypertension in cats; and what to do if your cat has liver disease. One of my cats, the adorable siamese Sebastian, had liver disease for a couple of years before he passed away at the rather ripe age of 16. We were hand feeding him towards the end, and ironically, it wasn't the liver disease that killed him, although that weakened him and meant he couldn't cope with the anasthetic he had to have for an eye operation.

Cat fancy magazine guidelines for cat care have included how to manage your cat's desire to scratch everything, how to effectively deal with fleas and ticks; what to do to make sure your cat is likely to find its way home if it wanders a lot; what is good cat nutrition; and options if your cat chronically meows.

Cat fancy magazine also describes new devlopments in cat treatments such as for cat diabetes, and asthma treatment for cats. They also profile breeds monthly. If you want to find out where the name for the Tonkinese came from, this is the place!

The articles cat fancy magazine regularly runs on cat behaviour I find amongst the most useful. Recent articles covered what your cat's social withdrawl may indicate, and how they adjust to a new home. Cats don't always behave in obvious ways, as all people owned by a cat will know!

Other cat fancy magazine interesting articles include the one in the May 2003 edition of cats in war; and the June 2003 article on the cat's psyche; plus the article on "a day in the life" of a no-kill shelter; how to stop cat fights in your home, and how to stop the little darlings from perching on your kitchen bench all the time. A very useful article, as anyone who has had to deal with a disreputable breeder will appreciate, is how to evaluate a breeder. Two of our cats, Lizzy and Blighty, the "naughty rexes" had ongoing health and behavioural problems because they came from a breeder who overbred her cats and didn't take very good care of them when they were born. Whilst we wouldn't swap them for anything, its still good to know what to look for in a breeder.

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