The domestic cat as a laboratory animal for experimental nutrition studies. I. General considerations, care and feeding of the animals
Carvalho da Silva, A.
Acta Physiologica Latino Americana 1(1): 20-25
1950
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-6764 PMID: 14799256 Document Number: 2754
With exception of the report by Krehl and Welt (1948), no systematic work on the nutritional requirements of the domestic cat has been published. However this animal would be convenient for the biochemical and hematological study of the nutrition deficiencies because it resists considerable venous bleeding at frequent intervals and is much more economical to maintain than the dog and the monkey. As a first step in this new field I decided therefore to study the problem of raising the cat on purified rations under standardized experimental conditions. I have been successful in this attempt and also in obtaining experimental deficiencies in vitamins as will be reported in subsequent papers. In this first report details are given about care and handling. Care and handling of the domestic eat for nutrition experiments are described. Reference is made to interfering diseases.
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