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By Yingyue Feng < https://yingyueue.myblog.arts.ac.uk/author/20028722/ 

24th July 2022 < https://yingyueue.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2022/07/24/bibliographic-references/>

Because the weather was too hot some time ago. I heard that the British Library has air conditioning. So I got a library card at the British Library and looked for references in it to support my research.

This is a great opportunity to find some books on animal behavior or cat behavior. As these relate to the biology part, they are very foreign to me. I need to refer and find more information.

I took pictures of the parts I needed and put them in this blog. Below is my borrowing list.

John Alcock, Animal behavior. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, [2019]

This is the first book I have borrowed, because it is in the British Library, so I got it on the same day.

This book is a very good book on ethology. But unfortunately, it’s not very useful to me.

This book describes the entire study of animal behavior in detail, starting with Darwin’s origin of species, and lists many animal behaviors later. Such as animal sociality, communication, breed, migration, etc. The animals involved range from mammalian monkeys, wolves, and birds, to fish, bees and more.

It is because this book is too detailed for the study of the whole animal behavior. So there are few parts that I can use. But there is no denying that this book is a very good book.

Next up are two books about Ragdolls.

These two books are very detailed about the origin of this breed of Ragdolls, as well as detailed information on appearance characteristics, hair color, etc., which are very useful to me.

Since I have Ragdolls, I found a very good cat rig on the Internet, but I need to make his own fur for him. So I need to know a lot about the appearance and hair characteristics of Ragdoll cats. These two books solved my problem perfectly.

Denise Jones, Ragdoll cat. Dorking: Interpet, c2001.

Karen Leigh Davis, Ragdoll cats : everything about purchase, nutrition, health care, grooming, behavior, and showingRagdoll cats : everything about purchase, nutrition, health care, grooming, behavior, and showing. Hauppauge, NY : Barron’s, c1999.

with full-color photographs ; illustrations by Tana Hakanson Monsalve.

Next, I want to find a few books about cat behavior, but I am not very lucky, and the books I found are not very useful. And these two books are so old that they don’t even have covers.

Carole C. Wilbourn, The inner cat : a new approach to cat behavior. New York : Stein and Day, 1978.

This book is not very useful for my project.

This book is more about some stories of the author and his cat living at home, so the book has little academic value. More of an essay than a book devoted to cat behavior. I was deceived by the title of this book. Although very interesting.

Paul Leyhaysen, Cat Behavior : The Predatory and Social Behavior of Domestic and Wild Cats. N.Y. : Garland STPM Pr., 1979.

When I read this book, it was very late, so I didn’t have enough time to finish the book.

Much of this book is devoted to the hunting behavior of cats. So I thought, if this book was discovered and read while I was working on my last project, it would be very appropriate.

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23rd September 2022 < https://yingyueue.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2022/09/23/reference-collection/>

The Truth About Cats and Dogs

University of Edinburgh

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cats-and-dogs?

Because the school’s computer is under maintenance, I can’t continue to use the school’s computer to make hair, so I plan to collect some materials that can support my design.

I found a public course on cats and dogs at the University of Edinburgh on Coursera. It talked a lot about the habits of cats and how to take care of cats well, which made me learn a lot. While half of it was about dogs, the cat content was very useful for my design, and I completed the entire course during this time. And there are many useful references in it, which I will also write in my thesis.

Although I have read detailed information both before and after raising a cat, in order to provide a very good life for my cat. But this one course still gave me a lot of inspiration. It also mentioned a lot that I hadn’t considered before.

The Five Freedoms outline five aspects of animal welfare under human control. They were developed in response to a 1965 UK Government report on livestock husbandry, and were formalised in 1979 press statement by the UK Farm Animal Welfare Council.The Five Freedoms have been adopted by professional groups including veterinarians,and organisations including the World Organisation for Animal Health, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The five freedoms as currently expressed are:
Freedom from hunger or thirst by ready access to fresh water and a diet to maintain full health and vigour
Freedom from discomfort by providing an appropriate environment including shelter and a comfortable resting area
Freedom from pain, injury or disease by prevention or rapid diagnosis and treatment
Freedom to express (most) normal behaviour by providing sufficient space, proper facilities and company of the animal’s own kind
Freedom from fear and distress by ensuring conditions and treatment which avoid mental suffering
History

Serpell (2013) Domestication and history of the cat. In: The Domestic Cat: The Biology of its Behaviour. Turner and Bateson (Ed), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

John W. S. Bradshaw, Rachel Casey, Sarah Brown (2012). Chapter 5: Communication, In: The Behaviour of the Domestic Cat, 2nd Edition, Wallingford, CABI

Halls, V. (2011). Cat Detective. United Kingdom: Transworld.

• Tan and Counsilman (1985) The Influence of Weaning on Prey-catching Behaviour in Kittens, Ethology, 70(2): 148-164

• Kuo (1930). The genesis of the cat’s response to the rat. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 11, 1–35

• Baerends-van Roon and Baerends (1979). The Morphogenesis of the Behaviour of the Domestic Cat. Amsterdam: North-Holland

• Biben (1979) Predation and predatory play behaviour of domestic cats, Animal Behaviour, 27: 81-94

• Adamec (1976) The interaction of hunger and preying in the domestic cat (Felis catus): an adaptive hierarchy? Behavioural Biology, 18: 263-272

• Strickler and Shull (2014). An owner survey of toys, activities, and behavior problems in indoor cats Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, 9 (5): 207-214

• Hall, Bradshaw and Robinson (2002). Object play in adult domestic cats: the roles of habituation and disinhibition. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 79:263-271

• Thorndyke (1898). The Animal Intelligence, An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals. New York