Just for Cats Cattery Newsletter

Just for Cats Cattery
Monthly Newsletter- May '08

Welcome to our new monthly newsletter. Firstly, we hope you like our new upgraded website that features in more detail the services we provide. Your views or criticisms are welcome so that we may continually improve the website and our services. Or you may like to inform us of some of the features you would like us to include for future monthly newsletters.

Newsletter - What's this about?
This newsletter is designed to focus on the services we provide and all the animals we board here throughout the year at Just for Cats Cattery. It will provide you with information on various breeds of cats and important facts on the health, illnesses, general care and hygiene of various animals.

Periodically, we get calls from people who have cats or kittens needing a new home and likewise customers ask us if we have for cats or kittens for sale. So to help you we'll gradually gather the information together and publish this in future newsletters with the owner's permission.

Know your Cat Breeds

British Shorthair
This is one of our favourites of all cat breeds who board with us regularly. This cat is very calm with an easy to care coat. It originated in Britain and is popular throughout the world. It is one of the oldest of the English breeds and the least altered through breeding. It was once known as the British Blue but when other colours like cream and then blue cream came along the name changed to British Shorthair.

The British Shorthair has a well-developed, compact body with a broad chest, a large rounded head set on a short, thick neck. Its facial bone structure is also rounded with a broad nose. Its large round eyes are copper in colour. Its legs are short and thick boned with large firm paw pads that blend in with the coat colour. The short, thick, single coat is dense and resilient and its tail is chunky tapering to a rounded tip.

Animal Facts

Tackling those Pesky Fleas
Fleas are clever little things that feed on blood off cats, dogs and you and they can cause problems. They bite humans, which inflames around the bite area, very unpleasant and some animals are allergic to the flea's saliva, if bitten, will become very itchy and scratch until the skin is broken and sore. These things breed like wildfire, two fleas comes thousands in a warm environment, like the home. Female fleas can lay 50 eggs in a day and when they hatch they wait for an animal to jump on.
When cats jump on or off the chair or bed, the jolt makes eggs fall off onto the carpet or bedding. This is the start of the flea epidemic in the home. Our carpets are one of the ideal breeding grounds for these little pesky fleas and are very difficult to hoover out and are protected against any poisons we throw at them. So unless we tackle the flea on the cat it'll be difficult to assert any control over the flea population. There are many flea treatments on the market from collars and powders but they are not as effective as prescription only products. Best advice is to see your local vets.

Kittens and Cats for sale
We don't have any information to publish as yet. If you know someone who has a cat for re-homing or for sale then please ask them to get in touch with us. We will advertise the cat's details, i.e. age, colour, sex and breed. If we are given permission we will list the seller's name and telephone number only for potential new owners to make direct contact with the seller.

Special Promotions
From time to time we have special promotions running on our Hills Science food. Our new promotion is: