Multi join query returns to many results and improperly matched

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Published on 2012-09-07T15:29:23Z Indexed on 2012/09/07 15:38 UTC
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I have the following minimal schema in Oracle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/c1ed0/14

The queries I have run yield too many results and this query:

select cat.*, status.*, source.*
from cats cat, status status, source source
Left OUTER JOIN source source2
on source2.sourceid = 1
Right OUTER JOIN status status2
on status2.isStray =0
order by cat.name

will yield incorrect results. What I am expecting is a table that looks like the following however I cannot seem to come up with the correct SQL.

NAME    AGE     LENGTH  STATUSID    CATSOURCE   ISSTRAY     SOURCEID    CATID
 Adam    1        25     null         null         null       1             2
 Bill    5        1      null         null         null       null          null
 Charles 7        5      null         null         null       null          null
 Steve   12       15     1            1            1          1             1

In plain English what I am looking for is to return all known cats + their associated cat source + their cat status while retaining null values. The only information I will have is the source that I am curious about. I also only want the cats that have a status of either STRAY or UNKNOWN (null)

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