FENUA ANIMALIA

FOREWORDS

The pages presented here were translated in french by Fenua Animalia and are hosted in the Fenua Animalia Site (in French and in English) since July 1999.

The Cornell Feline Health Center is American. Texts and recommandations expressed in their pages are submitted to the American jurisdiction and come under the American culture.

French polynesia is not an American Country, and applied laws are of a separate property. Its dominant culture is not American too. French polynesia is made of three main ethnic groups which have more or less mixed together. In arrival order: Maohis, Europeans (French mainly) and Chineses. Each brang qualities and flaws of its culture. French polynesia had experienced a fast and quality disparate development, mainly since 1945. The main consequence is an extremely stretched out salary scale. From this follows numerous social disparities, often critical for Pets. French polynesia is an extremely divided country (120 Islands = 3500 km²) on a surface as wide as Europa (from Atlantic Ocean to the Urals) where communications are immediately difficult. Thus information flows with difficulty, when not perverted under way.

The arrival of modern communication tools (Internet) changes things a few, but it is above all a tool for priviledged. Actually, to be able to use it requires electricity in a clean and dry place (climate is Tropical wet), to know a few reading and understanding English (main languages are Tahitian, French and Chinese), to own enough grants to buy a computer and to know its basic use. The lesser of these conditions is still today impossible to meet for the Polynesian majority.

For all these reasons, the carefull spirit showed by the Cornell Feline Health Center in its recommandations is often inapplicable in the scene of the average Polynesian situation. However, showed information is strict and exact enough to be used as a reference for cats friends, up to anyone to make its own profit here with full knowledge of the facts.

C.F.H.C. Cards 1999 Home Page
 

Notes:

• 12 october 2000 Addendum: The Cornell Feline Health Center site had been reworked since some months. For this part mainly by changing the style. However, the direct links between this image and their present version aren't thus warranted.
  N.B.: We sent several mails and follow-ups since more than a year asking for their authorisation to mirror and translate their Cats Veterinary Cards. The Cornell Feline Health Center had never deigned to answer. In the absence of sign and starting from the bad principle that "silent is consent", it is in this context and with regrets we publish their pages of the age in the original style - without changing anything - and our translations. Actually, it seems to us more convenient and useful to present you these valuable informations rather than to bury it while awaiting an hypothetical authorisation.
   
• 2 December 2007 : The du Cornell Feline Health Center site has been awfully renewed since some times, cards disappeared awfully. We keep it here, under their 1999 version, cats biology having not changed a lot since.

Cornell Feline Health Center Cards were previously available, in English only, in Cornell's site which still exists, in Ithaca, New York:

http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/