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Cats contribute to research in neuroscience, ophthalmology, retrovirus research, inherited diseases, and immunodeficiency diseases. Cats are a valuable model for the study of Alzheimer’s disease because they uniquely replicate various integral parts of the pathology of the disease, in a way that’s similar to humans.

Advances in veterinary as well as human medicine have been made thanks to the involvement of cats in studies of cardiac, autoimmune and respiratory diseases, cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, and spina bifida – diseases that are found naturally in both cats and dogs.

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Cat Kisses

Housing for these cats includes blankets, raised beds, scratching posts, and toys. The cats enjoy playing with each other and especially love visits from their caregiver.  This kitty, Midnight, likes to kiss her special person.

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Cat Housing

Cat housing takes into consideration their social, psychological and behavioral needs. Cats do well in compatible social groups with the ability to have some distance from each other when desired. Each cat must have have easy access to resting places, food, water and litter boxes.  These two cats are taking…

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Sadie the Research Cat

Sadie is part of a research study to develop more effective analgesics for cats. There are very few analgesics approved for cats even though there are over 74 million pet cats in the United States.   Anesthesia and analgesia are challenging in cats for a variety of reasons. Researchers hope to…

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Sophie the Cat

Cats like Sophie help researchers study the molecular causes for heart failure. Almost 6 million people in the US have heart failure and half of these people die within 5 years of their diagnosis. Cells from the heart muscle of cats survive for up to 10 days in culture. This…

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