Not all pedigreed cats are show cats, many are just pets but the ones with the best conformation and personality are often shown in associations such as the CFA and TICA in the US, the GCCF in the UK or the FiFe in the rest of Europe.

A common misconception is that all pedigreed cats are less healthy than random-bred cats due to inbreeding.

He was a pedigreed, clean-cut, WASP intellectual from a literary family, an English instructor at Columbia University, who would become the most acclaimed – and notorious – of all quiz-show contestants: Charles Van Doren.

Headquartered in Manasquan, New Jersey and moving to Alliance, Ohio, CFA's stated mission is to preserve and promote the pedigreed breeds of cats and to enhance the well-being of all cats.

The number of generations required varies from breed to breed, but all pedigreed animals have papers from the registering body that attest to their ancestry.

Righteous in their denunciation of all that makes for death, the beat prophets bid all men become cool cats ; ;

" A lot of cats are out there doing it, on the Web and all over.

* Almost all feliforms, such as domestic cats, big cats, hyenas, mongooses, civets ( exceptions include the monotypic African Palm Civet and the Binturong )

Pure carnivores such as ferets lack β-carotene 15, 15 '- monooxygenase and cannot convert any carotenoids to retinals at all ( resulting in carotenes not being a form of vitamin A for this species ); while cats can convert a trace of β-carotene to retinol, although the amount is totally insufficient for meeting their daily retinol needs.

The most familiar felid is the domestic cat, which first became associated with humans about 10, 000 years ago ; but the family includes all other wild cats, including the big cats.

Prior to this discovery, biologists had been largely unable to establish a family tree of cats from the fossil record because the fossils of different cat species all look very much alike, differing primarily in size.

Jon loves ( or occasionally hates ) Garfield and all cats.

Radioiodine treatment, however, is not available in all areas for cats.

Herons, kingfishers, otters, raccoons, cats, foxes, badgers and hedgehogs are all capable of emptying a pond of its fish.

While the goats and pigs have all died off, feral cats and house mice are still present.

The tiger are the most variable in size of all big cats, even more so than the leopard and much more so than lions.

He was also famous for owning 16 cats whom he referred to in almost all statements he made and regarded them as family.

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Of all the big cats, it is the least able to adapt to new environments.

The divergence of the pantherine cats ( including the living genera Panthera, Uncia, and Neofelis ) from the subfamily Felinae ( including all other living cat species ) has been ranked between six and ten million years ago.

Social predation is often very complex behavior, and not all social creatures ( for example, domestic cats ) perform it.

Although it has become a popular breed, with over 60, 000 cats registered with TICA, not all cat registries accept them ; in particular, the Cat Fanciers ' Association, one of the largest cat registries in the world, does not accept any hybrids.

Cornish Rex cats come in a wide variety of coat colours and patterns, outlined in the breed standard: solids, including white, black, chocolate, orange and the dilutes blue, lilac and cream ; all forms of tabby including classic, mackerel and ticked tabbies, bicolor " tuxedo " coat in many colours, tortoiseshell, " smoke " colours and the colour-point pattern standard in the Siamese breed.

The arrival of people, along with a suite of other introduced species such as rats, pigs and cats, quickly spelt the end for this species and all the other island forms that have become extinct.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

`` Squaresville, man, and all the palazzos are crummy Palasts ''.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

Most of them are Democrats and nearly all consider themselves, and are viewed as, liberals.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

Unless all gadgets are properly operated -- and the wires and seals from the handles removed first -- no damage can be done.

These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

These are traversed by another line of vaults, and thus rooms, arched on all four sides, are formed.

These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

Their consequences are irrelevant -- or there are no consequences at all.

We began by declaring that all men are created equal.

We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

the tricks that time plays with memory and memory with time are queerest of all.

the miraculous way in which music, revelation and death are associated in a single instant -- all this seems a triumph of art, a rather desperate art, in itself ; ;

The Poetics, in affirming that all human arts are `` modes of imitation '', gives a more serious role to artistic mimesis than did Plato.