Lately you’ve been hearing often about DNA profiling for dogs or cats and you are thinking about having one done for your pet as well? Not only that DNA profiling is one of the most commonly performed genetic tests among breeders, but it has also become an obligatory test among several kennel clubs across Europe.…
Cats from all over the world display a great variety in expressions of cat coat colour and for this reason were always a subject of research in fields of genetics and inheritance. Influence of certain genes on the cat’s coat colour can be relatively easy to explain, while some of them may be more complicated than expected.
Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a relatively new cat disease, recognized as clinically significant in late 1950s. Despite the fact that it is one of the most researched infections in cats it continues to be a major killer of young cats.
Cat blood group The AB cat blood group system is both unique and typical of blood groups of other species. It is unique because it appears to be the sole major blood group system. Since it has only two common alleles and the vast majority of cats have the same blood type A, the cat…