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Survey: attention inadequate
Cats need preventative care
By HADDON JOHNSTON
Reporter
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ture and standoffish attitude that
cats have,” said Dr. Alice Wolf of
A&M’s small animal clinic. “People
are deceived into thinking that cats
require less care.”
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association found that only 47 per
cent of cat-owning households in
^Bnerica obtained veterinary serv
icing act ices in a single year, compared to the
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The AVMA reported that al
though cat health care is low-level,
the cal population in the United
States is surpassing the dog popula
tion for the first time.
Considering the relative cleanli
ness and ease of keeping a cat, more
people are realizing that a cat is a
much better pet, Wolf said.
“Increased urbanization and the
large number of single people
around today are other reasons the
cat population has grown,” Wolf
said. “It’s a lot easier to keep a cat in
an apartment or condominium.”
Cats are our wildest domesticated
pets, she said. They instinctively
hide their ailments as a throwback to
the days when ailing animals were
preyed upon by stronger ones.
“They don’t let you know they are
sick until it is serious,” Wolf said.
“Humans have changed cats’ life
styles and instincts, so it’s up to us to
protect them as best we can.”
Although indoor living does pro
tect a cat, the moment the animal is
let outside, it is exposed to disease.
The mistake people make is in think
ing an inside cat is totally protected,
Wolf said.
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gree of immunity if they are outside
most of the time,” Wolf said, “and
inside cats may be fairly well pro
tected, but both groups should be
vaccinated and cared for properly.”
An AVMA study of 64 million pet
owners (representing 107 million
cats and dogs) found that cat owners
seldom know the warning signs of
feline illness. The study indicated
that sudden illness, not preventative
care, was the main reason cats were
taken to veterinarians.
A cat’s roving lifestyle also makes
it prone to many injuries and infec
tious diseases such as colds, pneumo
nia, rabies and feline leukemia with
its AIDS-like symptoms, Wolf said.
“The important warning signs to
look for in a cat are loss of activity,
unusual swelling or bumps, and loss
of appetite, which is less likely to oc
cur initially because of the cat’s sur
vival instinct,” she said.
The AVMA reports a low national
average of veterinary costs for cats
— $26 a year. Most state laws require
yearly rabies shots. Other vaccines
and boosters are available at rea
sonable costs as incentives for in
creased pet health care.
Regents to vote Tuesday on System budgets
By JERRY OSLIN
Staff Writer
„ OnjmJThe Texas A&M Board of Re-
J^Bnts will vote Tuesday on the ap-
"'. Ul proval of the 1985-86 guidelines for
hm tl establishing system buclgets.
■ According to the guidelines, all
., Texas A&M University System em-
,a , ®M 0 y eeS , excluding faculty and pro-
eaitor wHssional staff, will receive a state
■andated salary increase of 3 per
cent above their 1985 fiscal year sala
ries. They also may receive a merit
increase, but the merit increases to
gether should not exceed an average
of 4 percent.
Faculty and professional staff may
receive merit increases as well, but as
the other system employees, the in
creases together should not exceed
an average of 4 percent.
The guidelines also set the rates
by which travel expenses are to be
budgeted. System employees will be
reimbursed 23 cents per mile if they
use their own automobiles. They
also will receive a maximum of $70 a
day for expenses.
In other business, the board will
consider for approval the sale of $35
million in Permanent University
Fund Constitutional Amendment
Bonds.
The board also will consider the
appropriation of $880,000 from the
sale of the bonds to pay for teaching
equipment for the Halbouty Geosci
ences Building.
The board is expected to appro
priate $3.1 million from the Avail
able University Fund to enhance the
system’s engineering program. Part
of the money will be used for pur
chasing instructional equipment and
for paying faculty salaries.
The regents meeting will begin at
8:30 a.m.
Technology may
come to Burleson
with accelerator
By BRIAN PEARSON
Staff Writer
Burleson County is one of the six
sites in Texas being considered as
the center for a world renowned
particle accelerator, a Texas A&M
physics department spokesman said
Thursday night.
“This would be the biggest and
most important scientific laboratory
in the world,” said Dr. Peter McIn
tyre, associate professor and director
of physics.
McIntyre told about 100 people at
the program in the Brazos Center
that the installment of the $2 billion
accelerator, or Superconducting Su
per Collider (SCC), would have a
positive economic impact on the
area.
“Scientists and engineers from all
over the world would come here and
use the facility for research,” he said.
During the program, which was
sponsored by the Brazos Valley De
velopment Council, McIntyre dis
cussed the purpose of the SCC and
the importance of it being brought
to the region.
“It will be the largest microscope
ever built and will be built to view
the smallest structures ever seen,” he
said.
The accelerator tunnel will be
built in an underground circular
path 100 miles in circumference and
use 40 trillion volts of energy to peer
into the inner structure of matter in
a way never been done before, Mc
Intyre said.
The microscope, he said, will be
enable scientists to see the actions of
quarks, which are subatomic parti
cles that are much smaller than pro
tons and neutrons they are found in.
Because of the enormous poten
tial for scientific discovery, McIntyre
said, industry and technology will
grow around wherever the SCC is fi
nally placed. He said 15 states have
shown interest in obtaining the SCC.
The SCC itself will employ 2,000
scientists and technicians, McIntyre
said.
He said 10,000 acres of land
around the Burleson County area
near Lake Somerville would be
needed to build the central facility.
The land above the 100-mile accele
rator tunnel, he said, would not be
disturbed.
The Brazos Valley area was cho
sen as a possible site because of its
“relatively sparse land utilization”
and its convenient locatioh between
Austin, College Station and Hous
ton, McIntyre said. He said there is a
40 percent chance the SCC will be
built somewhere in Texas.
McIntyre said people in the area
of a proposed site will have to show
interest before the United States De
partment of Energy, which funds
the project, will consider the location
for the SCC.
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