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title: "Sources and Evidence | Gentle Cat Lab"
description: "See the primary organizations and evidence principles used in Gentle Cat Lab safety and behavior guides."
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Evidence and transparency

# Sources should support decisions, not decorate pages.

Safety pages link the primary organizations behind key actions. Each high-risk guide should also state its region, scope, review date, and named reviewer before public release.

## Human safety

Use public-health and medical organizations for wound-care thresholds.

## Cat health

Use veterinary and feline behavior sources for cat-health boundaries.

Use this page when

## Check the source behind a claim

This page supports trust checks. If you need immediate wound care or a behavior route, start with the relevant guide first.

[Go to wound care if skin broke ](https://gentlecatlab.com/cat-bite-broke-skin/)[Use the matcher if unsure ](https://gentlecatlab.com/tools/bite-pattern-matcher/)

Is this my situation?

### Use this page if

You want to see which organizations support a safety threshold, wound-care step, or editorial rule.

Do first

### Find the related guide

Open the guide you are reading and look for the source note nearest the claim. Sources make the most sense beside the action they support.

Then

### Open the primary source

Use the organization link to check wording, date, scope, and whether guidance is human medical, veterinary, or public-health focused.

Go elsewhere if

### Switch routes

Use wound care first if skin broke. Use the matcher if you are trying to choose a behavior route rather than verify evidence.

Primary organizations

## Grouped by what the user is deciding

A source list does not replace named professional review for high-risk published content.

[**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention**Cat-related injuries, cleaning, infection signs, and when to seek medical care.](https://www.cdc.gov/healthy-pets/about/cats.html)[**CDC — Tetanus**Wound assessment and vaccination considerations.](https://www.cdc.gov/tetanus/about/index.html)[**World Health Organization**Rabies exposure and post-exposure care, including extensive wound washing.](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies)[**NHS**Animal bite first aid, infection signs, and urgent thresholds.](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/animal-and-human-bites/)

### Editorial rules

How we separate safety claims, behavior interpretation, reviewer scope, and corrections.

[Read the editorial policy](https://gentlecatlab.com/editorial-policy/)

### Correction route

Send a page URL, the statement in question, and a primary source when possible.

[Report a correction](https://gentlecatlab.com/contact/)

Global source coverage

## We track source geography before publication.

Behavior pages should not quietly become a North America-only or Europe-only evidence base. Gentle Cat Lab keeps an internal coverage matrix across the six inhabited continents, then chooses page-level sources by topic relevance and quality.

Some regions currently have stronger direct cat behavior sources than others. Africa is represented through regional companion-animal veterinary practice context, but current cat-behavior conclusions still rely on direct feline behavior sources from veterinary schools, welfare organizations, and peer-reviewed research.

Global coverage examples

## Representative authority by region

These examples show the geographic evidence library used behind the behavior pages. Individual guide pages cite the most relevant subset.

[Cornell Feline Health Center — Feline Behavior Problems: Aggression](https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center/health-information/feline-health-topics/feline-behavior-problems-aggression)

Feline aggression categories, health boundary, petting-induced aggression, and redirected aggression.

Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine · North America

[International Cat Care — Stress in cats](https://icatcare.org/advice/stress-in-cats/)

Stress and welfare framing for behavior changes, environmental pressure, and body-language context.

International Cat Care / ISFM · Europe / international

[RSPCA Knowledgebase — Cat body language](https://kb.rspca.org.au/categories/companion-animals/cats/behaviour/what-does-my-cats-body-language-mean)

Body-language interpretation across eyes, tail, mouth, posture, and context.

RSPCA Australia · Oceania

[Owner-directed feline aggression in Thailand](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12942625/)

Regional research on owner-directed feline aggression patterns and intervention framing.

Peer-reviewed study via PMC · Asia

[Human-directed aggression in Brazilian domestic cats](https://repository.lincoln.ac.uk/articles/journal%5Fcontribution/Human%5Fdirected%5Faggression%5Fin%5FBrazilian%5Fdomestic%5Fcats%5Fowner%5Freported%5Fprevalence%5Fcontexts%5Fand%5Frisk%5Ffactors/24409864)

Regional research on owner-reported cat aggression contexts, including petting and play.

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery / Brazil study · South America

[WSAVA AFSCAN companion animal veterinary practice report](https://wsava.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-State-of-Companion-Animal-Veterinary-Practice-FINAL.pdf)

Regional companion-animal veterinary practice context. Used for coverage transparency, not as a direct cat behavior claim source.

WSAVA · Africa

[WSAVA Animal Welfare Guidelines](https://wsava.org/global-guidelines/animal-welfare-guidelines/)

Global companion animal welfare framework for responsible guidance across regions.

WSAVA · Global