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feline infectious enteritis vaccine for the protection Feline infectious enteritis is a highly infectious and dangerous disease of cats: it kills 9 out of 10 of those that contract it. Treatment is usually unsuccessful. The best protection against this dreadful disease is vaccination with FEV. Choose a time when your cat is fit and healthy then ask your veterinary surgeon about protection with FEV feline infectious enteritis vaccine. BEBRINGWERKE AG. FEV protects your cat ",,"aUIO·LAKN 13. ~~ HOECHST PHARMACEUTICALS LTD., Veterinary Division Portland House, Stag Place, Victoria, London, S.W.1 VOL. 17 No.3 MCau MARCH 1965 lUTHORITATIVE • INSTRUCTIVE· ENTERTAINING Published every ""ootb with tbe beet po••i. ble features and illustration. and circulated Managing Editor: to Cat Lovers of every kind throughout tbe world. Our editorial purpose is : ARTHUR E. COWLISHAW (I) to spread a wider understanding aDd a -4 CARLTON MANSIONS berter appreciation of all cats, their care and CLAPHAM ROAD. LONDON. S.W.9 mana~em.ent; (2) to encourage in every way the bre"din&. handlinfl: and sbowing oC pedigree cats; (3) to work for the 8uppre••ioD ofevery forDJ Australian and New Zealand oC cruelty to cats ; Correspondent: (4) to act as .liok of friend$bip aDd coaUbon interest between cal lover. in different part_ MR. F. W. ~EARCE. II OLD BEROWRA of the world. ROAD,HORNSBY,N.S.W.• AUSTRALIA THE MAGAZINE THAT SPANS THE WORLD OF CAT LOVERS INTERNATIONAL CHAMPION BENTVELD HONEYCOMB. lovely CreaDl female by Cb. Bentveld Bronx Cocktail and Bentveld Meftlory. Bred by the well known DUICh Caneier M.iss PosthuDla, Hofte-ycornb now belons. to Mr",. Gunster d. Laan. A page ior thc~ prole_a.oian PIISS-~U II t A COCKNEY CAT One of London's best known cats passed away recently at the age of 14 years. He was TIBS, the iJl1posing 231b. tabby heavyweight who was an official member of the Post Office staff at St. Martin's-le-Grand. His salary was 2s. 6d. per week and most of his days and nights were spent in the basement where no rat has been seen since he started to "sort theJl1 out" in his young and energetic days. There was an occasion when Tibs was taken to the PDSA for treatment of an infected ear. This kept him off duty for six weeks and when he returned fit and well, a collecting box for the PDSA raised Jl10re than £50 from grateful Jl1emhers of the staff. Poor Tibs, for so Jl1any years a faithful and dependable servant of the public, died froJl1 cancer of the Jl1outh. Mr. AlI Talbut, a P.O. worker, will Jl1iss him greatly he fed him every day, Bank Holidays included. Our picture of Tibs shows hiJl1 as he was in 1954, when he appeared in the book "Cockney Cats". ~ The reproductive system By MADELINE SHEPPARD, M.R.C.V.S. We present extracts from a paper read at the 1964 London Conference organized by the Feline Advisory Bureau. HEN you prepare to bake hormones. The sperm-forming tissue is a pie, you will provide arranged in a great number of tubes W yourself with an oven, fuel which all open into a main channel or to heat it, ingredients for making duct. This tube at first convoluted and a pastry framework and a suitable still in close proximity to the gland itself filling. The production of a litter then straightens and passes out of the of kittens is analogous with pie scrotum, upwards and forwards into the making. The male cat provides penis at the neck or exit of the bladder. the activating power, the brood From here the sperms travel to the queen represents the oven, the exterior through the urinary tube. ova and spermatozoa unite to The testicle produces vast numbers of produce the framework or body sperms, each consisting of a single cell of the kittens, and the filling is which has a motile filament or tail which represented by the genetic factors allows it to swim-rather like a tadpole which you vary according to your on its journey to meet the egg cell. The fancy, to give you different types sperms emerging from the formative of bone structure, texture and gland travel closely packed together colour of coat, eye colour, tem along the first part of the canal but in perament and so on. order that they may swim freely on their My cooking lesson today will long journey they mu"t be suspended in be concerned with the first three fluid. This fluid is provided by the considerations, but I would beg seminal vesicle, a gland that discharges of you to select your genetic its fluid into the spermatic canal just factors with such care that your previous to its opening into the urethra. efforts are not spoiled by the Further, another gland the prostate dis introduction of congenital defor charges fluid into the urethra at about mities. this point. It is when the sperms are mixed with these glandular fluids that they become active and swim vigorously. AnatoIDY and physiology The tissue between the sperm tubes produces hormones. These are substances To begin with, let us consider the male that are not discharged from a gland but cat. His function is to produce and intro are picked up by the blood stream and. duce into the queen the sperms or male carried around the body to exert their cells that unite with the egg cells thus influence elsewhere. The chief male bringing about fertilization. The male hormone is testosterone, and this is the reproductive organs called the testicles substance that gives the male cat his are situated externally, contained in a sac masculinity. The testicle also produces a of skin called the scrotum. small quantity of female hormones. Each testicle is an oval glandular body During embryonic life the testicles are covered by a fibrous tunic. The gland is developed within the abdominal cavity. made up essentially of two kinds of They are attached to an area of skin that tissue, one producing sperms, the other will later become the scrotum and as 3 development proceeds they are drawn terminates in a strong musI'ular valve, the out of the abdominal cavity, passing cervix-the passage continues as the through an opening in the region of the vagina to terminate externally in the groin called the inguinal ring and back vulva. into the scrotum. While descent occurs The uterine horns contain and nourish very early in life, and may be complete at the growing embryo and consist of three birth, it may also be delayed or incom layers of tissue, the inmost is made up of plete, one or both testes may fail to pass specialized cells, the middle layer is through the inguinal ring, being retained muscular, the outer of strong supporting in the abdominal cavity, or their descent fibres. The whole is suspended in the may be arrested anywhere between the abdomen and is capable of enlargement ring and the scrotum. and mobility. The body of the uterus is A testicle retained in the abdomen not concerned with nourishing the foetus cannot produce live sperms since the but forms part of the birth canal with prevailing temperature is too high but it which it merges when the ceryix opens or will produce hormones. So a monorchid dilates during kittening. retains his masculinity even after removal Before discussing the female hormone ofthe normal testicle although he will not production, we must first consider the role be fertile. of another endocrine gland, the pituitary gland, situated in the head, since it is as a result of secretion from this body that the Fertilization sexual cycle is initiated. The pituitary gland produces "gonadotrophins" which The female sexual organs are more act on both ovaries and testicles stimu complex both in structure and in hor lating their growth and output of hor mone production. They consist ofovaries mones. It is controlled by the nervous fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina and vulva. system and seems to be dependent on light The ovaries, two in number, are situa and temperature-inactive during the ted in the abdomen, one on each side winter months but increasing in activity close to the kidneys. The ovary is a with the approach of spring. The small oval body consisting ofa framework gonadotrophins are called follicle stimu supporting numerous cavities or follicles lating hormone (FSH) and lutenising in which the ovum develops. The follicles hormone (LH). also produce hormones. The follicles are all present at birth and a limited number ripen at each calling period. The ripe On horJDones follicles rupture and liberate the egg cells or ova only if the queen is mated. The The ovarian hormones are;- (I) cavity left by the rupture is filled first by Oestrogen which stimulates activity of blood and then by yellow cells forming the uterus and produces the phenomenon the corpus luteum. This yellow body of calling. Under its influence the uterus persists during pregnancy gradually enlarges becoming longer and thicker diminishing in size until the termination with an obvious lumen. and with an of pregnancy-its function is hormone increased blood supply; (2) Progesterone production. which is produced by the corpus luteum. The ovum thus liberated falls into a This acts on the uterus already activated funnel surrounding the ovary-this is the by oestrogen. It results in a building up end of the fallopian tube which leads to of the lining cells preparing them for the the uterus. It is in this tube that fertiliz reception of the fertilized egg and main ation takes place.