The Lyons Den Cattery currently is housing Persian cats for Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA-blindness) and Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD), Oriental Shorthairs for an early onset cancer that appears as a mediastinal tumor of the thymic gland and Russian Blues for a heart disease project. Some cats are retired from projects either as adults or kittens. These cats are generally pure-bred fancy breed cats that need good homes. Cats are vaccinated and generally spayed or neutered. Adopted cats generally have very little risk of having a health problem but new owners must understand the design of their genetic project. Monitoring will be requested as a standard practice for a research program but associated costs are covered by the projects. Please adopt a cat for FREE!

	Duke is a seal point Himylayan. He is a unknown carrier of the early onset blindness and is positive for PKD. Since he is not a definite carrier for blindness, Duke is not the most efficient breeding for the program. He is big, fluffy and a love machine, often roling on his back for attention.
	Bluebird is a blue Oriental Shorthair with only a chance of being a lymphosarcoma carrier. Like Trakker, she will be used to outbred the Persians for the blindness and PKD studies. She can be bred to blind males to produce shorthair cats that carry blindness and may have PKD. A big sweetheart, Bluebird is a love machine! But Bluebird may not be an efficient breeder, thus may need an adoption home soon.
	Caught in the act, we have bred 16 Russian Blue kittens from 2 queens and one sire. These cats have been adopted but we continue to do health examinations and echocardiograms every 6 months to screen these cats for heart disease. Overseen by feline cardiologist, Mark Kittleson, local cats will come back to UCDavis but others are farther away, even in Pittsburgh! Russian Blues are the most loving cats around. Currently, our adult breeder female still needs a good home.
	Kashmir's male kitten did not like the new male in the room. Each one has a 25% chance of getting lymphosarcoma by 2 years of age, a 50% chance of being a carrier and a 25% of not being a carrier at all. Thus, unless they get cancer, they will no longer be used in the program. He will be adopted into a very special home where he remains intact and gets full chest x-rays and blood work every 6 months. We continue to cover his health care costs and if he gets cancer, we will ask him to be a breeder for the project.
	Kashmir's male and female kittens are full of energy. Each one has a 25% chance of getting lymphosarcoma by 2 years of age, a 50% chance of being a carrier and a 25% of not being a carrier at all. Thus, unless they get cancer, they will no longer be used in the program. They will be adopted into very special homes where they remain intact and get full chest x-rays and blood work every 6 months. We continue to cover their health care costs and if either gets cancer, we will ask these cats to be breeders for the project.

To adopt a cat, contact Dr. Lyons at: felinegenome@ucdavis.edu or call (530) 754-5546.

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