More things you should know about NFO and
these pages
1. )agechart
2.) dealing (or not) with hcm: the case of „findus“
3.) the problems with the
„disappearing gifs“
4.) later to come: backyardbreeders and justice
cats are ageing different to humans and
also slower as dogs. the old tale that a 7 cat-years are
equivalent to 1 human vear ist no longer valid. and the NFO has
one surplus speciality: she is maturing very slowly, is only
full grown at 3 years (but fertile sometimes at 6 months). this
makes presume that the ageing proces overall is slower than at
normal cats and that NFO at a given age (in years) is younger
than a „normal“ cat. that is not yet scientific
approved but based on the experience of breeders.
the average age of NFO is counted at
appoximately 15 human years; in their new environment
close to humans they may grow older. that also means that they
will encounter also more likely civilisation deseases when they
are getting long in the tooth - like tumors or diabetes or
loosing teeth or kidney-/liver deseases.
like in humans, the ageing will proceed
diffeent between one person and another. the same happens at
cats - and the older they grow, they will develop differently,
showing their indistinguishable personalty.
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human years
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NFO- years
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9 months
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11 years
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1 year
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14
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2 years
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18
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3
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22
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4
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26
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5
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30
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6
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34
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7
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38
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8
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42
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9
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46
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10
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50
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11
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54
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12
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58
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13
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62
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14
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66
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15
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70
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16
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74
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17
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78
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18
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82
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19
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86
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20
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90
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when we bought directly from sweden our
new stud to be, the heart desease hcm was no item for us or anyone. only some friends
warned us about possible faults in the breed on mothers side,
having read the pedigree. but everything seemed to be quiet,
nobody worried. the mortal big bang came one year later, when a
brother to our male collapsed and we immediately went to a
specialized vet who very fast diagosed our boy
„equvocal“ at the verge of a full blown hcm.if such
a thing happens, a breeder gives usuallly a surrogate no matter
from which part of the mating the disease comes from, in
sweden now even covered by an insurance. not with
this was the last contact with this
breeder (parts of the letter clipped for faster reading). when
we asked for the complete lines of the cats she offered, there
was no response and a complete blackout. even no question from
her how findus is doing now - she may learn about when she
contacts us again.
the research on hcm went on - also
specially in this case. the owner of the male finally, after a
second consultation, found out that Tassajaras
Torak had hcm (and had given it
to his babys). But when Toraks parents were tested, both looked
healthy, a rather impossible case as HCM is dominant (with
incomplete expression sometimes) and one of the parents
must at least carry this gene but no later test was done as far
as we know. Which one was tested unsufficiently, which one had
hidden the desease in its gene?
the problem with the „disappearing
gifs“ in internet explorer exists since december 2005 -
when microsoft released a „security update“.
KB905915 since then, a lot of gifs (and later also
.png’s) produced by the „quark“ system
were no more visible on screen, only the „famous“
white crosses on a red dot were appearing on thousands of pages
worldwide. having heard about this problem, we tried to build
our pages mostly with photoshop-gifs - without luck: we
actually got a very sad feedback from numerous users that also
ps-gifs were partially invisible. it only happened, as we
learnt, with computers on W 2000 and XP and an i.e. with this
infamous „security“ patch. No other systems were
involved - and all other browsers so far were dealing correctly
with this item. as we did not have the time till this problem
was fixed (50% our visitors come via i.e.), we tried to work
around it., until another lousy fault would cannibalize our
site. sorry for the inconvenience. maybe you change in the
meantime to another browser like firefox or netscape (adresses
on the start page). it is said they are much more reliable. in
summer 2007 the problems seemed solved miracously - but who
knows when they come up with the next bug. so please keep this
in mind. If you still (or again) find missing pictures or
anything else on our pages, feel free to send us a mail . thank you.
