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Dr Diane Addie's YouTube channel
My YouTube channel brings some of the information given in this website to life, especially with the animations of the brilliant veterinary animator, Dr Francois Bagaini of Vetocyte.fr. Please subscribe to the channel and give my videos a thumbs up if you like them.
Another way you can support my work - and actually give me revenue - is by joining Steemit and becoming a follower of my blogs @catvirus and voting them up. Doing so will free up my time to devote to my FIP work.
Follow Dr Addie on Twitter @FIPVET
If you are reading this website, you are probably an animal lover. In my opinion, the largest area of animal suffering is undoubtedly on our farms, especially factory farms. For this reason I have been a supporter of Compassion in World Farming since I was a child. This organisation fights to better the conditions of farm animals, especially those subjected to factory farming, and long, cruel journeys. If you'd like to find an alternative to eating meat, Vegweb is a source of great vegan and vegetarian recipes!
In some ways your cat going missing is worse than him dying. There is now an app to help people who have lost (or found) a cat help that cat be reuinted with their guardian: FindMyCat.org
Veterinary Diagnostic Services
Veterinary Diagnostic Services is the University of Glasgow Veterinary School's
diagnostic laboratory. This is the veterinary laboratory I most recommend, especially for FIP diagnosis and feline calicivirus isolation.
This is where I personally send many of my pathology samples, website at https://www.finnpathologists.co.uk/ They have impressive rabbit pathology experts.
This is such a brilliant resource for veterinary surgeons to check up on product information: for example drug dosages, uses and side effects.
European Advisory Board of Cat Disease (ABCD)
I have been a scientist now for 29 years, and as you know, I will not experiment on cats. I believe that for the scientific community to take seriously the position of scientists like myself we need to provide HUGE grants. One organisation which raises funds for research specifically NOT involving animal experiments is the Dr Hadwen Trust. Other organisations involved in stopping experiments on animals:
Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA. There is a wonderful paper on reducing animal experiments by Prof. Alan Goldberg in Scientific American, January 2006.
People for the ethical treatment of animals (PETA)
Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments, a UK based charity.
I've worked with animal charities all of my life. I've watched some grow from tiny charities to large charities and become like businesses, get run by bureaucrats and have only a fraction of the money donated actually used for the animals. Celia Hammond's Animal Trust is absolutely not like that - every penny goes into looking after the animals. I have known Celia personally for 28 years and can vouch for what she is doing and for her integrity - if you make a donation to her charity, animal lives will be saved.
Poisonous plants
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has comprehensive listings of household plants which are safe and those which are toxic to cats.
There are few things as distressing as losing a pet. Although based in the Kennel Club website, Petlog is also an online register of cats as well as dogs and other species lost in the UK, provided they have been microchipped. Unfortunately it doesn't also have a page of animals who have been found, which would be useful. However, its database stores over 2,000,000 records. This is on hand 24 hours a day to authorised bodies such as dog wardens or animal welfare centres, who can scan the chips in found animals and trace their owners via the Petlog database.
This is an amazing website, a portal which contains alphabetical guides to other websites on feline conditions. It is artistic and thorough and also contains details of the cats beloved by the site's author. Well worth a visit.
I am grateful to the Winn Foundation for grants which have supported my work on FIP.
This guy is amazing - he's just into absolutely EVERYTHING to do with animal welfare and he's so passionate about it all. Hear his fabulous radio shows at his Petworld website.
Save Our Cats and Kittens from Feline Infectious Peritonitis (SOCK FIP) is a group of cat lovers, breeders, rescue groups, veterinarians and geneticists who are working together to support research on feline infectious peritonitis at the UC Davis Center for Companion Animal Health (CCAH). SOCK FIP is a volunteer organization run by people who have had personal experiences with this terrible disease. Funds raised will be directed to the CCAH and its experienced group of FIP researchers. However they do experiment on cats.
This is an invaluable website for veterinary surgeons seeking information.
Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow is a refereed electronic 'current awareness' journal aimed at building a global animal health research community with a sense of identity and quality.
Biogal
Developer and manufacturer of veterinary
diagnostic kits including an Immunocomb for FCoV antibody testing.
International Cat Care is the new name of the Feline Advisory Bureau, it is a charity which promotes
the health and welfare of cats by making the latest information
available to vets, cat breeders and owners.
Cats Protection
Home of Cats Protection - the oldest and largest
cat charity in the UK. This site offers help and advice on cat care
as well as a variety of fun activities for all ages.
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