Cat Talk Magazine - August 2020
Cat Talk Magazine - August 2020
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In this issue
It's our annual award winners issue! PLUS: a look at the big cats at the St. Louis Zoo during the zoo's lockdown last spring, planning for disasters & evacuations, our cats send us letters from lockdown. This month's featured breed: the Russian Blue
A Very Rare Award Indeed
With GC, NW Velvetkist Crown Me Already earning her title as CFA's Best Kitten, Noralyn Heisig (shown right with Mark Hannon, her son Casey, and husband Wade in 2017) found herself in that most exclusive of CFA clubs: an exhibitor who had obtained Best Cat, Best Kitten, and Best Cat in Premiership.
1 min
Big Cats and Covid-19
What Can They Teach Us?
9 mins
WHO YA GONNA CALL?
Planning For Disasters and Evacuation
5 mins
The Plight of Homeless Cats
What Do Cat Fanciers Have to Do with This Anyway?
7 mins
Letters from Lockdown
Recently, the staff of Cat Talked asked our feline correspondents to let us know what kind of impact the lockdown/ quarantine was having on them and their households. Here is a sample of the responses we received.
6 mins
High Tech Cat Toys For Ailurophiles
Let’s face it, cat fans, our society, at least in the United States, is totally divided between “The Greatest Generation,” “Baby Boomers (okay?)”, “Generation X,” “Millennials” aka “Generation Y,” and finally, “Generation Z”. However, US societal divides DO have common ground: love of FELINES! And within this very broad CAT-egory (pun intended), there are certain beliefs:
6 mins
Effective Show Management
Opening note: This is a work in progress, as many people across the country have helped. We began writing this series in March with the intent of eventually creating a piece which new and old show managers could use for reference. We began just after CFA joined the rest of the world in cancelling events in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and certainly local and state ordinances will change how we begin to hold shows again. But knowing about and responding to changes is also part of a show managers’ job.
9 mins
My First Cat
First Cats. We all have that special very first cat—the one that we had as a child, or perhaps the first one when we had a home of our own. Maybe one found us, and we hadn’t realized that we needed a cat until then. Or perhaps this special cat was a first rescue, first pedigreed cat or first show cat. These are the stories of some of those special cats.
9 mins
What You Don't Know About... Russian Blues
Silver-Tipped Elegance
9 mins
FUR NAMES
From the files of: Nancy Kerr
3 mins
Cat Talk Magazine Description:
Publisher: Cat Fanciers Association
Category: Animals and Pets
Language: English
Frequency: Bi-Monthly
The official publication of the Cat Fanciers' Association, Inc.
Information about pedigreed cats; CFA cat shows; cat health, welfare, and well-being; and cats in our culture. Published bi-monthly - 6 issue per year.
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