Free-roaming and feral cats - Their impact on wildlife and human beings

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 218-226

  Patronek, Gary J ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; CAT; CAT DISEASE; DIET; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; OBJECT RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLAGUE; PREDATION; RABIES; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BONDING, HUMAN-PET; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DIET; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PLAGUE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RABIES; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0032517958     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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