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Welcome to Episode Nine of Life in the Cat Lane! This week we talk about Microchips, their risks and benefits and how to make them successful for your cats. Send your questions and shelter stories to [email protected], follow us on instagram www.instagram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod and twitter @catlanepod

See our Garner Colony cats demonstrate how a chip reader works: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRmxASYR/

Sources:

AAHA Associated Microchip registration sites:

https://www.aaha.org/your-pet/pet-microchip-lookup/participating-companies/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21535253/

https://www.pettravel.com/0001225.cfm#:~:text=The%2015%20digit%20ISO%20pet,carry%20your%20own%20microchip%20scanner.

https://www.alleycat.org/take-action/microchips-save-lives/

https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/pet-owners/petcare/microchips-reunite-pets-families/microchipping-faq

https://www.aaha.org/your-pet/pet-microchip-lookup/faqs/

https://avmajournals.avma.org/view/journals/javma/235/2/javma.235.2.160.xml

https://www.intermountainpet.com/en-us/blog/the-history-of-microchipping-pets#:~:text=The%20pet%20microchip%20was%20first,clinics%20and%20pet%20shelters%20worldwide.

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Welcome to Episode Eight: FIV, or Feline Immunodeficiency Virus. You can send questions and cat pictures to [email protected], follow us on instagram at lifeintheatlanepod and on twitter @catlanepod

Sources:

https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center/health-information/feline-health-topics/feline-immunodeficiency-virus-fiv

https://www.marvistavet.com/owning-a-feline-immunodeficiency-virus-positive-fiv-cat.pml

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090023398800087

https://www.alleycat.org/resources/feline-immunodeficiency-virus-fiv/#:~:text=Spaying%20and%20neutering%20also%20ends,false%20positives%20on%20FIV%20tests.

https://profiles.ucdavis.edu/niels.pedersen

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Welcome to Episode Seven: First Vet Visit Jitters, covering the basics on what your cat’s first vet visit will be like. You can send questions and cat pictures to [email protected], follow us on instagram at lifeintheatlanepod and on twitter @catlanepod

Lavinia’s first weekend: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRPfGgjG/

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Welcome to Episode Six! Today’s topic is Pangur Ban. Send your questions to [email protected] and follow us on instagram at instgram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod and on twitter @catlanepod

Traditional Scottish Gaelic Waulking song: https://youtu.be/bOIZC16Jtz8

Sources

https://brehonacademy.org/the-white-cat-and-the-monk-pangur-ban-a-9th-c-old-irish-poem/

http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/10/pangur-ban/

https://shepherdsdream.com/blog/wonders-of-wool/waulking-songs/

https://www.goerie.com/story/lifestyle/columns/2020/06/29/cats-often-welcome-among-monks-pet-connection/113461114/

http://ultimatehistoryproject.com/the-medieval-scribe.html

https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2019/03/a-useful-companion-for-a-scholar-cats-in-the-middle-ages.html

https://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/cat%E1%B9%A1lechta-and-other-medieval-legal-material-relating-to-cats/

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Welcome to Episode Five! Today’s topic is Tama, the Goddess of the Wakayama Electric Railway. Send your questions to [email protected] and follow us on instagram at instgram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod and on twitter @catlanepod

Sources

https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/202202/202202_07_en.html

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190522-the-cat-who-saved-a-japanese-rail-line

https://www.avclub.com/this-feline-station-master-always-kept-things-meowving-1846403834

Welcome to EpisodeFour! Today’s topic is catnip, and why cats love it so much. Send your questions to [email protected] and follow us on instagram at instgram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod and on TikTok at lifeinthecatlanepod

OC being a catnip criminal: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRyR3yvC/?k=1

Johnny demonstrating the effects of valarian root:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRy8YLG2/?k=1

Sources

https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/catnip-nepeta-cataria/

https://corpora.tika.apache.org/base/docs/bug_trackers/ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf-LINK-325-41.pdf

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-cats-are-crazy-catnip

https://www.drugs.com/npc/catnip.html

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Welcome to Episode Three! Today’s topic is FIP, or Feline Infectious Peritonitis. Send your questions to [email protected] and follow us on instagram at instgram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod and on TikTok at lifeinthecatlanepod

Sources:

https://sockfip.org/summary-of-gs-441524-treatment-for-fip-2/#

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2748294/

https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center/health-information/feline-health-topics/feline-infectious-peritonitis

https://f.hubspotusercontent20.net/hubfs/2605127/FIP_Brochure.pdf?__hstc=161696355.e4dd7324649a8586cb2cc654d1e0c928.1659586082953.1659586082953.1659586082953.1&__hssc=161696355.1.1659586082953&__hsfp=3159048051

https://fipwarriors.com

Welcome to Episode Two! Today’s topic is Trap-Neuter-Return, or TNR and how you can get involved. Send your questions to [email protected] and follow us on instagram at instgram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod

This episodes sources:

https://www.alleycat.org/resources/why-trap-neuter-return-feral-cats-the-case-for-tnr/

https://www.neighborhoodcats.org/how-to-tnr/getting-started/what-is-tnr

https://kittencoalition.org/news-events/statistics/#:~:text=Of%20those%2C%20approximately%203.4%20million,are%20returned%20to%20their%20owners.

https://www.animalleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cats-multiply-pyramid.pdf

Welcome to Episode One! Today’s topic is Community Cats, and what it means to be domesticated or feral. Send your questions to [email protected] and follow us on Instagram at Instagram.com/lifeinthecatlanepod

This episode’s sources:

http://www.storagetwo.com/blog/2017/4/the-tragedy-of-the-most-hated-bird-in-america

https://www.alleycat.org/community-cat-care/what-is-a-community-cat/

https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/zoology/item/how-did-cats-become-domesticated/

https://www.neighborhoodcats.org/how-to-tnr/getting-started/what-is-a-feral-cat

https://figopetinsurance.com/blog/science-roaming-cats

https://figopetinsurance.com/blog/science-roaming-cats

How the Garner Colony got it’s start, and why I became a passionate advocate for TNR, Colony Cats, and education.