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Kitten-Proofing Your Home Kittens are like human babies: They'll get into all kinds of trouble when you're not looking. You'll need to make sure your home is safe for a new kitten to explore. It's a lot like baby-proofing your house. Let's go over some of the potential dangers: * Houseplants: Some plants are poisonous and could make your kitten seriously ill. Certain toxic plants could even kill her. Examples of toxic plants include lily-of-the-valley, hydrangea, rhododendron, poinsettia, and English ivy. Remember, kittens like to chew, and they won't discriminate one plant from another. Keep plants in a room where your kitten won't be allowed, or put them outside. * Toilet: This might sound strange, but very young kittens have been known to explore toilets, get stuck, and drown. To prevent tragedies like this, keep the toilet seat down. * Stuff on the floor: A kitten would be delighted to chew on rubber bands, twist-ties, string, etc. All of these can cause blockages and do terrible things to her insides. In general, try not to leave anything around that your kitten could swallow or partially eat. * Wires: Kittens can strangle themselves on cords and long wires. Make sure corns are either out of reach or secured. Tuck the wires away, or make them less tempting toys by taping them down to the floor. * Chemicals: Keep all cleaning solutions and toxic chemicals completely out of reach. In particular, kittens and other animals are drawn to antifreeze, which tastes sweet but is deadly. * Fragile items: If you have a lot of delicates and breakables, you'll want to protect them. A beautiful glass figurine on a low coffee table is asking for disaster. Instead, put these breakables somewhere out of reach. Display them in a glass cabinet where your cat can't reach them. * Reclining chairs: Cats and reclining chairs don't mix. Kittens have been known to climb up and inside these devices, where they either suffocate to death or are killed when a human sits down in it. If you have a recliner chair, always be on your guard! Even if you're careful, accidents can happen: Someone might knock on the door, or the dog might knock over something, and you might swiftly rise without checking to make sure the kitten isn't in the way. * Washer/dryer: Your kitten will no doubt be tempted to explore an open dryer at some point. Don't leave an open dryer unattended, and always check for your kitten before closing the door. * Candles: A kitten can easily start a fire by knocking over a lit candle. It should go without saying that burning candles should never be left unattended. As an added precaution, keep the candles in a place where your kitten can't easily reach them. * Needles: Your kitten might think pins, needles, and toothpicks are fun toys to play with, but they are deadly when swallowed. * Plastic bags: Plastic grocery bags delight cats of all ages, but you should not let your cat play with them unattended. A kitten could get entangled in the plastic bag and suffocate. A cat will commonly get one of the handles caught around her head and start running around the house to try and dislodge it. Cats have also been known to eat plastic bags. * Tiny spaces: Check your home for tiny spaces where a kitten will be tempted to crawl and hide. If a kitten squeezes her way into one of these spaces, it may be all but impossible to get her out. Some kittens overestimate their abilities and can't get out of their small hiding place. * String: Although strings, yarns, and ribbons make for great cat toys, you should only let your cat play with them when you're around to supervise. Kittens and cats alike will often swallow these things, which can block your cat's intestines. Note: If you ever see a string dangling from your kitten's anus, DON'T PULL IT! Get your kitten to a vet at once. Pulling on the string could damage her insides. About the author:Catherine L. Conway doesn't like cats--she adores them! She has written several articles about caring for cats and also has some websites dedicated to them, including
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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there — in sunny weather — stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. Then that house was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible. A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Chapter 1
The Wildly Popular Himalayan
Loved the world over, the ever so popular Himalayan cat achieves its beauty from both the Siamese from whom it gets its colored points, and to the Persian, which it most closely resembles. The Himalayan is one of those strictly human engineered breeds that took over ten years to develop by British breeder Brian Sterling-Webb, finally earning breed registration status in 1955. In England, the Himalayan is actually known as the Colourpoint Longhair.
Himalayans have luxurious, long coats that mat easily, therefore requiring daily grooming to keep their coats free of the painful mats that they can get so easily. So make sure that you are willing to give them the care that they need before adopting one into your family. They are gentle, docile cats, but they still love to play as most typical cats do.
Himalayans are actually considered to be a breed of the Persian family, since they most resemble the Persian cat in their body type. But the Himalayan is defined by the point colors, which they get from their Siamese side, and while their points can vary from chocolate, seal, and red to lilac cream lynx, their body colors run in a variety of shades from white to fawn. One of the most beautiful and outstanding features of the Himalayan cat is the deep, vivid, blue eyes that they get from their Siamese ancestors. The Himalayan also has tiny ears set a top a broad head, full large cheeks, a snub nose, and large round eyes, a combination that creates such a sweet yet extreme expression that most people cannot resist them.
However, the creation of the Himalayan was not a simple achievement. The earliest known attempts at the breed actually occurred in Sweden and the United States in the early 1920s. In the United States, it took five long years of dedicated breeding by a couple that was both associated with the Harvard Medical School. And although a successful Himalayan was produced in 1931, named Debutante, there is no record in existence that she gave birth to a new generation of Himalayans. Actually, the breeding experiment was conducted not to produce a new breed of cat but to try and solve some genetic problems.
It wasn't easy producing the perfect Himalayan. It takes a lot more than cross breeding a Siamese to a Persian. The initial consequences of those first breedings produced non-pointed, short haired kittens with copper to yellow eyes, long noses, big ears and a much daintier body than Persian cats are supposed to have. They were literally ugly ducklings.
Initially, only one in sixteen kittens were produced with the desired effects, leaving perseverance, hard work, calendar watching and back crossing to finally do the trick. Today, an overwhelming sixty-two percent of all registered cats are Persians, which includes the beloved Himalayans and color point carriers, and as far as Himalayan cat lovers are concerned, long hair and bright colors are the prevailing vogues.
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