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The Cow Said Meow, Phyllis Rosen

Children's Book and Media Review

Who knew that farm animals had a sense of humor and were so smart? A cat wants to come inside from the rain, so it stands at the door and meows until the farmer's wife opens the door and lets it in. The cow hears the cat and decides to try to the same thing, standing in front of the door and saying "meow." The pig sees the cow and tries the same ploy. Each time one animal is admitted, another animal sees the incident and tries the same trick. Eventually the living room is filled with animals. When the …

Bad Kitty Scaredy-Cat, Amanda Durrant

Children's Book and Media Review

Bad Kitty isn't usually scared, but she has felt a plethora of emotions ranging from daring to loopy to vexed. But on Halloween night the doorbell rings and frightening creatures appear at her door. The creepy clown, noisy neanderthal, and yucky yeti scare Kitty. But then, someone drops their candy and Kitty sees all the delightful treats. She decides to not be scared anymore, but then she becomes a very bad kitty: battering bigfoot, kicking kraken, and zinging zombie. Kitty chases away the scary creatures and resolves to never be scared again, but then she hears a dog bark!

Room On The Broom, Annie Huish

Children's Book and Media Review

The witch tapped her broomstick and whoosh! The witch and her cat were gone. This captivating motion picture, as inspired by the book Room on the Broom, by Julia Donaldson, follows a witch and her cat as they fly through the wind. Along the way, the witch loses articles including her hat, bow, and wand. As each article is lost, the witch and her cat fly down to find what they are looking for, and on their way pick up a dog, a bird, and a frog. Everyone seems happy (even though the cat may not have been at first), …

Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns Of Staphylococcus Species Isolated From Cats Presented At A Veterinary Academic Hospital In South Africa, Daniel Nenene Qekwana, Dikeledi Sebola, James Wabwire Oguttu, Agricola Odoi

Faculty Publications and Other Works -- Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences

Background

Antimicrobial resistance is becoming increasingly important in both human and veterinary medicine. This study investigated the proportion of antimicrobial resistant samples and resistance patterns of Staphylococcus isolates from cats presented at a veterinary teaching hospital in South Africa. Records of 216 samples from cats that were submitted to the bacteriology laboratory of the University of Pretoria academic veterinary hospital between 2007 and 2012 were evaluated. Isolates were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing against a panel of 15 drugs using the disc diffusion method. Chi square and Fisher’s exact tests were used to assess simple associations between antimicrobial resistance and …

Mr. Putter & Tabby: Dance The Dance, Kristie Hickley

Children's Book and Media Review

Mr. Putter and his cat, Tabby, live right next door to Mrs. Teaberry and her dog, Zeke. They all have a lot in common and frequently spend time together doing their favorite activities. Mrs. Teaberry decides that they should try out ballroom dancing! Mr. Putter isn’t so sure about it, but doesn’t want to let Mrs. Teaberry down. They attend a very fancy dance to test out their dancing skills. Mr. Putter and Mrs. Teaberry work on the cha-cha while Zeke dances with the poodle on a woman’s skirt and Tabby bats at the sparkles that are everywhere. They all …

Splat The Cat: Twice The Mice, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Seymour misses his brother Brice, so Brice is coming for a visit! Splat the Cat tells his mom that there will be twice the mice. Splat’s mother warns him to be extra nice because not all mice think cats are nice. Seymour and Splat work super hard to prepare for Brice’s visit. Splat makes a statue out of ice for Brice, but the ice sculpture starts to melt after they fall asleep. Splat wakes up and runs to greet Brice, but he slips on the ice. He is sad that the ice sculpture is so melted and small, but Brice …

Seroprevalences Of Feline Leukemia Virus And Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Infection In Cats In The United States And Canada And Risk Factors For Seropositivity, Matt Parker, Julie Levy, Aimee Burling, Michael Crandall, Sylvia Tucker, Erin Wood, H Morgan Scott, Jessie Foster

Diseases and Health

OBJECTIVE To estimate seroprevalences for FeLV antigen and anti-FIV antibody and risk factors for seropositivity among cats in the United States and Canada.

DESIGN Cross-sectional study.

ANIMALS 62,301 cats tested at 1,396 veterinary clinics (n = 45,406) and 127 animal shelters (16,895).

PROCEDURES Blood samples were tested with a point-of-care ELISA for FeLV antigen and anti-FIV antibody. Seroprevalence was estimated, and risk factors for seropositivity were evaluated with bivariate and multivariable mixed-model logistic regression analyses adjusted for within-clinic or within-shelter dependencies.

RESULTS Overall, seroprevalence was 3.1% for FeLV antigen and 3.6% for anti-FIV antibody. Adult age, outdoor access, clinical disease, …

Cheetah Can't Lose, Carlie Smith

Children's Book and Media Review

Two kittens challenge the normally dominant Cheetah to a race. To give themselves a chance at winning, they slyly design pre-race contests to slow Cheetah down. Cheetah enters the race with boxes on his feet, a belly full of ice cream, a knit sweater, and a bouquet of balloons tied to his hands, and a crown to cover his eyes. The kittens easily win, but Cheetah still thinks he is the victor. They kindly do not disagree and celebrate their friend even though he is overconfident. In this twist on the fable The Tortoise and The Hare, the small but …

Pete The Cat And His Magic Sunglasses, Nicole Davis

Children's Book and Media Review

Pete the Cat is having a rare rough day. It starts to look worse when grumpy toad shows up, but when he shares his secret cool, blue, magic sunglasses with Pete things get better. Pete sees the world in a completely new way. He encounters some unhappy friends and shares his cool, blue, magic sunglasses to help them cheer up. Suddenly, Pete crashes his skateboard and his cool, blue, magic sunglasses shatter. Wise owl tells Pete that he does not need the magic sunglasses to see the world in a new way, he just needs to look for the good …

Prevalence Of Non Helicobacter Pylori Species In Patients Presenting With Dyspepsia, Javed Yakoob, Zaigham Abbas, Rustam Khan, Shagufta Naz, Zubair Ahmad, Muhammad Islam, Safia Awan, Fatima Jafri, Wasim Jafri

Zubair Ahmad

Background: Helicobacter species associated with human infection include Helicobacter pylori, Helicobacter heilmannii and Helicobacter felis among others. In this study we determined the prevalence of H. pylori and non-Helicobacter pylori organisms H. felis and H. heilmannii and analyzed the association between coinfection with these organisms and gastric pathology in Patients presenting with dyspepsia. Biopsy specimens were obtained from Patients with dyspepsia on esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) for rapid urease test, histology and PCR examination for Helicobacter genus specific 16S rDNA, H. pylori phosphoglucosamine mutase (glmM) and urease B (ureB) gene of H. heilmannii and H. felis. Sequencing of PCR products of H. …

Dogs, Cats, And A Lambkin: Speechlessness And The Animal In Ulysses, Pierce R. Watson

Theses and Dissertations

This essay explores the status of the animal and the consequences of animal speechlessness in Ulysses, mainly focusing on encounters with dogs and cats. Through these animal encounters, Joyce provides a foundation for understanding the complications faced by the Bloom family in grieving their deceased infant son.

I Love Cats!, Charlotte Esplin

Children's Book and Media Review

I Love Cats is a cute book explaining what to expect when you own a cat. A reader is taught about teaching a cat to use a litter boxes, how to correctly brush a cat, what a scratch post is, and how often to feed your cat. Included is a list of cat supplies, as well as a glossary of terms to help even the youngest reader appreciate this book. Photographs of every topic take up every other page of the book adding visual clarity to what the author is teaching about. There is also a lot of color used …

Trap-Neuter-Return Programs And The Importance Of Associated Public Awareness, Nicolette Sliwa

Biology: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

The focus of this paper is to describe a typical Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program and highlight the major pros and cons surrounding this somewhat controversial method of managing the overwhelming free-roaming cat population. The effects of the species’ overabundance on the environment and human health are also discussed. Citing studies completed on TNR programs around the globe as well as mathematical models, the effectiveness of this method is compared to other, currently used alternatives. Finally, it has been suggested that the general awareness level a neighborhood possesses about the true goals of TNR programs has a potentially significant impact on the …

Lost Cat, Cynthia Frazier

Children's Book and Media Review

During the chaos of moving day, Slippers the cat is accidentally left behind. No matter how hard she tries, Slippers can’t catch the car as it drives away. So, Slippers decides to find a new owner to adopt. Though she meets many people on her search, there is something wrong with each one. Sometimes there is a scary animal like a dog or a horse that causes Slipper to move on from a potential new home. Sometimes it is a noisy truck or motorcycle that frightens Slippers away. Once, Slippers had to climb a tree to escape from a boy …

Developing And Evaluating A Flexible Wireless Microcoil Array Based Integrated Interface For Epidural Cortical Stimulation., Xing Wang, Sharjeel A Chaudhry, Wensheng Hou, Xiaofeng Jia

Medicine Faculty Publications

Stroke leads to serious long-term disability. Electrical epidural cortical stimulation has made significant improvements in stroke rehabilitation therapy. We developed a preliminary wireless implantable passive interface, which consists of a stimulating surface electrode, receiving coil, and single flexible passive demodulated circuit printed by flexible printed circuit (FPC) technique and output pulse voltage stimulus by inductively coupling an external circuit. The wireless implantable board was implanted in cats' unilateral epidural space for electrical stimulation of the primary visual cortex (V1) while the evoked responses were recorded on the contralateral V1 using a needle electrode. The wireless implantable board output stable monophasic …

Performance Of 4 Point-Of-Care Screening Tests For Feline Leukemia Virus And Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, Matt Parker, Julie Levy, Cynda Crawford, Sylvia Tucker

Diseases and Health

Background: More than 3 million cats in the United States are infected with FeLV or FIV. The cornerstone of control is identification and segregation of infected cats.

Hypothesis/objectives: To compare test performance with well-characterized clinical samples of currently available FeLV antigen/FIV antibody combination test kits.

Animals: Surplus serum and plasma from diagnostic samples submitted by animal shelters, diagnostic laboratories, veterinary clinics, and cat research colonies. None of the cats had been vaccinated against FIV. The final sample set included 146 FeLV+, 154 FeLV-, 94 FIV+, and 97 FIV- samples.

Methods: Prospective, blind comparison to a gold standard: Samples were evaluated …

Origins Of Thalamic And Cortical Projections To The Posterior Auditory Field In Congenitally Deaf Cats., Blake E Butler, Nicole Chabot, Andrej Kral, Stephen G Lomber

Psychology Publications

Crossmodal plasticity takes place following sensory loss, such that areas that normally process the missing modality are reorganized to provide compensatory function in the remaining sensory systems. For example, congenitally deaf cats outperform normal hearing animals on localization of visual stimuli presented in the periphery, and this advantage has been shown to be mediated by the posterior auditory field (PAF). In order to determine the nature of the anatomical differences that underlie this phenomenon, we injected a retrograde tracer into PAF of congenitally deaf animals and quantified the thalamic and cortical projections to this field. The pattern of projections from …

Catching A Glimpse: A Directorial Investigation & Collaboration On Procedure To Exit An Enclosed Space, Jaquan Keiandre Beachem

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.