Fraser, a retired veterinarian and professor of veterinary surgery who taught at the Memorial U. of Newfoundland, Canada, supplies veterinarians, students of veterinary medicine and animal welfare, and animal care professionals with a guide to feline behavior and welfare that covers aspects of cat well-being, pedigree breeds and their characteristic domestic behavior, feline neuroethology, play and developmental stages, basic activities, association and reproduction, giant wild cats, principle and minor species of wild cats, common and comparative features of cats, abnormal behavior and training, health monitoring, and welfare guidelines. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)