Cat Lovers Research Articles

The Influence of Pet Attachment with Happiness Levels in Cat Pet Owners in Padang City

Nowadays, the phenomenon of keeping animals, especially cats, is very common among people. Due to the great interest in cats, communities and groups of cat lovers are formed. In modern times, animals are considered to play a role in fulfilling human needs, one of which is to be happy. One alternative method to increase happiness is to build attachments with animals and obtain social support from them. This study aims to examine the effect of pet attachment on the level of happiness of cat owners in Padang City. This study used quantitative methods with a population of cat pet owners in Padang City and involved a sample of 111 subjects. Data were collected using two scales, namely the happiness scale consisting of 28 items with a reliability coefficient of 0.950, and the pet attachment scale consisting of 21 items with a reliability coefficient of 0.922. Data analysis was carried out using simple linear regression techniques. The results of the study using simple linear regression analysis obtained the results of the correlation value r = 0.331, from the output obtained the coefficient of determination (R Square) of 0.110, the value of F count = 13.417 with a significance level of 0.000 <0.05, it can be concluded that there is an influence between pet attachment and the level of happiness of cat pet owners in Padang City.

Variasi Sebutan untuk Kucing dan Pemaknaannya dalam Akun Mention Confess (Menfess) @Kochengfs

Variations in the appellation of cat are created because cat is marked as something important for humans. One influential factor in the emergence of variations in the appellation is the existence of interaction spaces among cat lovers. One of them is menfess account @kochengfs. This research examines the various appellation for cat and their meanings in the menfess account @kochengfs. The purpose of this research is to describe the variation of appellations for cat and their meanings in the menfess account @kochengfs. This research is included in the qualitative descriptive research. This research uses a semiotic approach with the trichotomous relation theory from Peirce. The data source of this research comes from the mention confess (menfess) account @kochengfs with a corpus of research data in the form of 1,758 tweets taken from 17–24 February 2023. Based on the analysis, there are 214 tweets containing 37 appellations for cat. The appellations are dominated by icon signifying with a total of 24 appellations, then symbols with 12 appellations, and index only 1 appellation. Appellations with icon signifying are based on (a) body shape; (b) body hair; (c) voice imitation; (d) fur color; (e) teeth shape; and (f) physical characteristic.

SISTEM PAKAR DIAGNOSIS PENYAKIT PADA KUCING DENGAN METODE FORWARD CHAINING PADA KLINIK HEWAN MITRA SATWA

Cats are one type of animal that is widely kept and popular as a favorite pet among the public. Cat health is very important, this is inseparable from the role of veterinary hospital clinics which are needed to perform medical actions on pets. The purpose of the study is to build an Expert System for Diagnosing Disease in Cats with the Forward Chaining Method at Mitra Satwa Jambi Clinic which is a system that can replace the temporary role of experts in identifying diseases in cats quickly and accurately, and Provide solutions to cat lovers to provide first treatment to cats. The results of the analysis and evaluation show that the expert system uses Forward Chaining in this approach using reasoning in the expert system which starts based on the information that provided to users in the form of existing facts.

Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases in Animals Cat Using Bayes Theorem Method

Cats are one of the most popular pets in the world, including Indonesian people who like to keep cats as pets, and even become a hobby for cat lovers. Diseases that often attack cats are caused by parasites, namely worms and fleas. Parasites that attack cats are grouped into two, namely ectoparasites and endoparasites. expert system which is a computer program , which is able to store knowledge and rules like an expert . With the help of an expert system, someone who is lay or not an expert in a particular field will be able to answer questions, solve problems, and make decisions that are usually made by an expert . The Bayes Theorem method can be applied to diagnose parasitic diseases in cats based on input symptoms chosen by the users, the system can perform analysis based on predetermined rules or knowledge base. Based on the probability value of each symptom and disease that has been made, the system can diagnose parasitic diseases in cats with different accuracy results, the highest value or percentage which is the result of the diagnosis of the parasitic disease. From the results of trials conducted by the expert system for diagnosing parasitic diseases in cats using the Bayes Theorem method, the highest value was obtained, namely the type of parasitic disease Flea Disease (P03) with a percentage of 38.66%.

Designing "Meows .Co" Application as a Tool for Cat Lovers

Cats are one of the most common pets kept by humans. During a pandemic, keeping cats has many benefits for mental and physical health. The purpose of this research is to design a mobile-based application that functions as a tool for cat lovers who are still confused about how to take care of their cats, solutions to deal with the types of diseases or infections that can attack cats, and want to adopt cats. To support the research, the research method we use is descriptive, as well as in the application development process uses an object-oriented approach with System Development Life Cycle Waterfall. As a result, designing the Meows application makes it easier for cat lovers to find information using a digital platform that can be accessed through their respective smartphones. The concept of this application is to provide information to cat lovers about how to take good and correct care of their cats and features to share information about cats with other cat lovers. In the end, this application serves as a medium of information for cat lovers to get information more easily and help cat lovers with one another

‘Take Care of Stray Cats’: biopolitical life ethics and its cosmopolitical countermethod

ABSTRACT The current regime of biopolitics is characterized by its advanced capability of communicating life as a fact to be optimized through its biomedical and bio-capitalist apparatuses. Seoul Metropolitan Government’s launch of its new community platform, ‘Take Care of Stray Cats’, in 2014 was an attempt to apply this biopolitical optimization of life to the condition of the city’s stray cat lives. Indispensable for the success of this platform was the participation of individual cat lovers, who were then asked to work as citizen geo-taggers to convert the physical presences of stray cats into the markers on its map app so that other geo-tagged corporate and governmental apparatuses, such as veterinary clinics, cat shelters, and feeding and resting areas could communicate about their presences. So, some cat lovers’ petition against the platform that led to its early shutdown in 2015 has been criticized as revealing their ignorance of the ethical and communitarian rationale of the platform. This paper, on the other hand, focuses on a different ontology of life on which the cat lovers’ everyday caring practices were based and how its care for the cats’ responsiveness, rather than simple geo-taggable facts, evolved into their ontological politics as the countermethod to biopolitics.

A psychological model to understand background reasons for different attitudes and behaviors of youth residents in relation to free-roaming cat problems on a human-inhabited World Heritage Island in Japan

Obtaining cooperation from the local people is a key factor in an efficient management of invasive species. However, conflicts between invasive species managers and local people occur, when the target species is strongly bonded with humans. To understand the attitudes and behaviors of local people toward the issues on free-roaming cats ( Felis silvestris catus ), we conducted a questionnaire study covering all high school students—who are important future stakeholders and could reflect ideas of their parents whose responses are hard to attain—on Tokunoshima Island, Japan, where the ecological negative impacts of free-roaming cats are exacerbated by residents’ feeding. We used a cognitive hierarchy model and structural equation modeling (SEM) to study the relations between our questionnaire items: background characteristics (i.e., cat ownership, education experience around cat-caused negative ecological impacts, attitudes and perceptions around cats and nature), perceptions of the negative cat impacts on nature and people, attitudes toward outdoor cat management, and the frequency of outdoor feeding. Results from 1162 youth respondents showed that cat owners and people who believed that cats are useful for rodent control exhibited a higher frequency of outdoor feeding, perhaps due to feeding their own cats outdoors. Perceptions on the negative impacts of cats on people (e.g., zoonoses and public nuisances) which were disagreed by cat lovers, showed a stronger effect than the perceptions of negative ecological impacts, in terms of the approval of outdoor cat management. In general, informing people about the threats of outdoor cats to people, house-owned cats and livestock through education activities regarding the cat issues will lead to a better understanding and cooperation toward outdoor cat management. Educating teenagers who are more likely to accept new knowledge is especially necessary. Keeping cats indoors and reducing the frequency of feeding outdoor cats are still one of the fundamental solutions to decrease the number of outdoor cats, which will in turn decrease the risk of cat predation on native species.

Cats among the Conservationists

Cats among the Conservationists

PEMETAAN DIMENSI KUALITAS PELAYANAN KESEHATAN HEWAN DARI PERSPEKTIF PENYEDIA DAN PENERIMA PELAYANAN MEDIS VETERINER

Background: 
 The increasing demand for veterinary medical service quality from community has been increasing as seen on the raising of lawsuit for veterinary services since 2008. The description
 of veterinary healthcare service quality in Indonesia was still unclear which part of quality dimension play the role to describe quality in veterinary healthcare service, especially in clinical area.
 Objective: This study aimed to determine the dimensions that influence the quality of veterinary medical services from the perspective and expectations of clients and providers.
 Methods: Qualitative Explorative as research design. Data Collection was done by 17 In-Depth Interview with 14 service providers and 3 service clients with addition 1 panel interview with 4 cat owner from cat lovers community and 1 panel interview with 2 dog owner.
 All respondent must have experienced with providing/receiving veterinary healthcare service. Interview Data then transcribed followed
 with Coding, Categorizing, and being made into Themes with Atlas.ti application which Themes become the fundamental of Quality Dimension of Veterinary Healthcare service.
 Results: The interview produced 20 transcripts that were coded subcategory categories-themes. The results of the categories obtained have the capacity as a dimension of the quality of veterinary medical services in the form of: managerial services; internal
 provider communication; professionalism of the provider; service competency, communication skills; client education, honesty and transparency; service security; service facilities; the dynamics of the world of service; service outputs and outcomes; and client assurance.
 Conclusion: The category becomes the dimension of service quality in D.I. Yogyakarta contains 11 service quality dimensions which are divided into 3 themes. The theme is the value of service; communication and interaction between service providers and clients; and clients demands. This theme affects the veterinary medical services especially in the D.I area. Yogyakarta.
 

CAT CENTER DI BANJARBARU

Cat Center in Banjarbaru is a place where cats and humans can interact with each other. Cats are the most in-demand animals to be home pets, the community of animal lovers and individual animal keepers sprung up and gathered to share their similar interest in cat animals, because there is no container for animal lovers or communities to take their animals for a walk or gathering as fellow cat lovers. Therefore, a special place is needed for keepers, especially cat animals and their keepers, called pet friendly-human friendly places. The purpose of the design of the paint center in Banjarbaru is to provide containers and facilities based on the needs that can support humans and animals to interact. The design method used for the design of this cat center by analyzing the character owned by the cat is then applied in the concept that is attractive where the concept is a combination of various characters or behaviors that cats have, namely: pleasant and sometimes strange cat behavior that is the point of interest of the cat, its curiosity is high, friendly, active and playful. From the concept, the design that will be applied is a space where cats and humans can interact as well where the cat will feel comfortable playing in every corner of the room. Cat center in Banjarbaru is a public building with many types of mass space that are customized based on the nature or function of the space. Interaction space in the area with the embodiment of facilities that are interconnected with each other.

CAT CENTER DI BANJARBARU

Cat Center in Banjarbaru is a place where cats and humans can interact with each other. Cats are the most in-demand animals to be home pets, the community of animal lovers and individual animal keepers sprung up and gathered to share their similar interest in cat animals, because there is no container for animal lovers or communities to take their animals for a walk or gathering as fellow cat lovers. Therefore, a special place is needed for keepers, especially cat animals and their keepers, called pet friendly-human friendly places. The purpose of the design of the paint center in Banjarbaru is to provide containers and facilities based on the needs that can support humans and animals to interact. The design method used for the design of this cat center by analyzing the character owned by the cat is then applied in the concept that is attractive where the concept is a combination of various characters or behaviors that cats have, namely: pleasant and sometimes strange cat behavior that is the point of interest of the cat, its curiosity is high, friendly, active and playful. From the concept, the design that will be applied is a space where cats and humans can interact as well where the cat will feel comfortable playing in every corner of the room. Cat center in Banjarbaru is a public building with many types of mass space that are customized based on the nature or function of the space. Interaction space in the area with the embodiment of facilities that are interconnected with each other.

Development of a Pets' Body Movement Recognition Technique Using Deep Neural Networks

This paper presents a deep neural network‐based technique to recognize pets' body movements. The motivation to develop the technique arises from the fact that there are an increasing number of animal lovers, say dog or cat lovers, who spend a tremendous amount of effort to take care of their beloved pets, and even to capture the pets' images in daily life and at particular memorable moments for sharing among friends. For illustrative purposes, the recognition model was trained and then tested using a number of cats' images. As it turned out, the model well recognized three body movements: eating, tail raising and yawn, with a recognition accuracy up to 99.45%. Using this recognition technique, pets' images can be captured automatically once specific movements are detected, and job as a pet photographer can be made easy accordingly. © 2021 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.

Katie the Catsitter

Katie the Catsitter Kiri Palm, Colleen AF Venable, Stephanie Yue, and Braden Lamb Venable, Colleen AF Katie the Catsitter; illus. by Stephanie Yue. Random House, 2021 [224p] Library ed. ISBN 9781984895646 $23.99 Trade ed. ISBN 9780593306321 $20.99 Paper ed. ISBN 9781984895639 $12.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9781984895653 $8.99 Reviewed from digital galleys R Gr. 5-9 Twelve-year-old New Yorker Katie is heartbroken that she's missing out on a summer at camp—again. How could she possibly go, when her mom's waitress salary can't cover even one week of the multi-grand tuition? When her camp-going bestie Bethany suggests she save up for just one week of camp, Katie concocts a plan, offering to help her neighbors with any side gig they might have. Katie's odd-job crusade is off to a bumpy start as she kills the plants she's tasked with watering and breaks Mr. Quinn's eggs when helping him carry his groceries. Then the mysterious Ms. Lang from Apartment 5B asks her to catsit, and Katie's luck begins to change … for the worse. Ms. Lang's clowder of 217 feisty and unnaturally gifted felines might not be worth what Katie is earning (even if Katie is spared scooping 200 litter boxes due to the cats' being toilet trained), and the critters seem oddly interested in news reports about the dreaded Mousetress, NYC's most feared supervillain. It doesn't help that the masked malefactor bears a resemblance to Ms. Lang, nor that the nocturnal ne'er-do-well seems to commit her crimes during the evenings that Katie is catsitting. As the rodentian wrongdoer exposes dog-fighting tycoons, poachers, and vivisectionists, though, Katie wonders if the Mousetress might not be such a bad gal after all. Venable's middle-grade debut, the first in a new graphic novel series, will likely appeal to cat lovers as well as to caped crusaders, as most of the action centers on Katie's trials with the cunning cats. There's more to this tale than purrs and superheroism, though. Bethany's time at camp brings about changes that leave Katie behind metaphorically as well as physically: Bethany's suddenly interested in boys and uninterested in stickers, and she's recast herself into embracing of a once-hated nickname ("BETH?!" Katie gasps in shock at her friend's new signoff). Venable's address of the woes of limited income is useful but occasionally too subtle, so aware readers may wonder how supposedly broke Katie and her mom can afford to live in the same building as the posh Ms. Lang. Still, less well-off readers are sure to relate to Katie's camp cost struggles, and the threat of friends growing out of their relationships over the long summer is frustratingly real. Thankfully, however, so are kids' abilities to bounce back from change, such as Katie does when she meets endearingly awkward skater-girl Marie, who is sure to serve as a new bestie in subsequent volumes. Yue's digital art is cartoonish and appealing, with most detail going to the swarm of cats and their wild personalities. Realism and absurdity snuggle harmoniously, with such delightful dichotomies as grumpy moggy Moritz knocking over [End Page 203] glasses as calico Jolie plays MMORPGs while donning enormous headphones. Yue's designs also provide plenty of diversity, including hijab-sporting classmates, biracial Bethany, and dark-skinned Ms. Lang. Feminist overtones easily float throughout, the most poignant being the overly curvaceous femme fatale portrayal the media paints of the Mousetress, one that is completely at odds with the sensible flat boots and utilitarian gear worn by the real "villainess." Ultimately, this is plain, fluffy fun, a pro-girl comic to encourage adventure, entrepreneurship, and excellent, pun-filled pet names. End matter includes creator bios, a guide to saying "Meow" in different languages (courtesy of language expert cat Gracie), and an alphabetical line-up of Cat Benatar, Pierogi, and the rest of the kitty crew. (See p. 236 for publication information.) Copyright © 2021 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Mark Twain for Dog Lovers and Mark Twain for Cat Lovers

Mark Twain for Dog Lovers and Mark Twain for Cat Lovers

Change the Humans First: Principles for Improving the Management of Free-Roaming Cats.

Simple SummaryFor free-roaming cat management to be effective, people—including land managers, conservationists, cat lovers and the general public—need to be sufficiently empowered and motivated to accept and implement management actions. Research in the social and behavioural sciences has shown that engaging everyone and gaining consensus can be incredibly challenging. This paper describes an integrative framework based on the behavioural literature to design better, equitable and ethically acceptable interventions for free-roaming cat management.In Australia, free-roaming cats can be found in urban and rural areas across the country. They are inherently difficult to manage but it is frequently human behaviour that demands the most attention and is in most need of change. To the frustration of policy makers and practitioners, scientific knowledge, technological developments, and legal and institutional innovations, often run afoul of insufficient public capacity, opportunity and motivation to act. This paper demonstrates how the behavioural science literature can provide important insights into maximising the impact of free-roaming cat control activities within an ethical framework that prioritises acting “with” all stakeholders, rather than “on” stakeholders. By better understanding how human values, attitudes and beliefs are shaped, practitioners can more effectively and respectfully interact with how people interpret the world around them, make choices and behave. This literature also has much to say about why certain types of media and marketing messages elicit behaviour change and why other types fall flat. Finally, in addition to explaining the behavioural science and its implications, this review provides researchers, policy makers and engagement specialists with an inclusive, practical framework for conceptualising behaviour change and working to ensure land managers, cat owners and the general public can agree on and adopt best practices for managing free-roaming cats.

Personal Hygiene and Toxoplasmosis Occurences in “Bungkul Cat Lovers” Cat Owners Community in Surabaya: An Association Study

Pet owners, especially those often in contact with cats, are susceptible to Toxoplasma gondii infection. Personal hygiene is a control for various kinds of disease, one of which is Toxoplasmosis. The aim of this research was to analyze correlation between cat exposure and personal hygiene habits which consist of handwashing, using personal protective equipment and cleaning residents with toxoplasmosis. This research used cross sectional design with a sample size of 19 respondents, which was determined according to the simple random sampling technique. The research was done on the "Bungkul Cat Lovers" cat owners community 2018 in Surabaya. Data were analyzed using Fisher's exact test. Data were collected through Anti-Toxoplasma IgG and IgM Immunoglobulins laboratory tests, interviews, questionnaires and observations. Serologic test results showed that positive Anti-Toxoplasma IgMs were 0% and positive Anti-Toxoplasma IgGs were 31,4%. The result showed that there was a correlation between personal hygiene habits which consist of handwashing (p=0,041<0,05), using personal protective equipment (p=0,044<0,05) and cleaning residents with Toxoplasmosis (p=0,018<0,05). The conclusion of this research is that personal hygiene holds an important role in Toxoplasmosis.

RANCANG BANGUN APLIKASI GATTO FRIENDS DENGAN METODE PROFILE MATCHING BERBASIS ANDROID (STUDI KASUS UNDIP CAT LOVERS SEMARANG)

The aim of this research is to design the cat couple search application according to Veterinarian procedure and association of cats association. The method of decision support system used is Profile Matching with the process of comparing the individual competencies into the group's competence so as to know the difference of competence, Software Development Method used is Luther Multimedia Method and Application Design using Unified Modeling Language. Cat’s data used for research application that is in UNDIP cat lovers community by using Black Box method test. It is hoped that the results of this study show that cat search apps can help cat lovers find mating partners for pet cats that have a match with pet and pet owners and interact with other pet owners around the more efficient, fast and computerized.

Expert system for determining the type of cats and how to care them

Cats are one of the many animals kept by animal lovers in Indonesia because the cat is a very friendly animal with humans and has a funny character. Nevertheless, not all cat lovers understand exactly the type of cat that is owned even how to care especially for ras or domestic cats (kucing ras - in Bahasa), because each type of ras cat has different character and way of care. This causes the pet cat affected by various diseases to cause death. One way to overcome the incomprehension of cat lovers in taking care of it is with the help of expert systems that have proven reliability in helping solve problems that require solutions as an expert in his field. This expert system was developed using forward chaining method. By answering any questions asked by the system about the characteristics of the cat owned, users will get answers about the type of cat they have and the way of good and right care.

Toxoplasma gondii

Putting cat lovers on notice: Toxoplasma gondii is here to control your brain…or is it? Kochanowsky and Koshy shine the spotlight on this notorious pathogen.

Who Run the World? Cats: Cat Lovers, Cat Memes, and Cat Languages Across the Web

The paper provides an overview of the macro-isotopy “cat”, a totemic figure disputed between the elitist and often-esoteric subculture related to the origins of Internet and the standardized mass culture permeating social media. Due to its features, “cat” is a cultural unit which is easy to anthropomorphize and iconize, according to a variety of textual practices, including so-called Internet memes (lolcats) and one of the most interesting examples of sign proliferation to date: the creation of a whole new language (lolspeak) based upon systemic misspellings and mistakes.