Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives
What is really going on behind thoseluminous feline eyes?\ Affectionate yet aloof, intelligentand inquisitive yet dangerouslycareless, the more-or-lessdomesticated house catintrigues us as no other animal can.Now Barbara Holland offers cat loversa fascinating, funny, and refreshinglycandid look at their feline companions:their history, lore, and secrets, and theircomplicated relations with people andwith each other.\ Secrets of the Cat is a livelyappreciation of cats as we know andlove them,...
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"Smart, bright, well-written, absorbing and informative...A book about cats as good as this one is rare."SMITHSONIANA lively appreciation of cats from tip to tail, this witty analysis considers everything we think we know about cats, and offers something new, too. Meet cats in high places such as Winston Churchill's ginger tom, who attended cabinet meetings, and Teddy Roosevelt's cat, Slippers, who came to dinner. Filled with warm, vivid speculations on their lives and times, their social psychic, mythological legacy, and their impenetrable mysteries, this charming book offers a delightful and loving cat's-eye view of the world to be read and cherished by all their human friends. Smithsonian “Smart, bright, well-written....A book about cats as good as this one is rare.”
Introduction ix\ 1 The Conversion of Boston Blackie 1\ 2 Smart Like Us 13\ 3 People with Cats 33\ 4 Cats with People 57\ 5 Cats with Cats 77\ 6 The Cat's Early Years 99\ 7 Cats and the Church 117\ 8 A Choice of Cats 139\ 9 Show Business 165\ 10 Medical Matters 177\ 11 Sex and Kittens 197\ 12 Practical Cats 211
\ Philadelphia Inquirer"May be the most elegantly written, witty, perceptive statement about felines ever published."\ \ \ \ \ Smithsonian"Smart, bright, well-written....A book about cats as good as this one is rare."\ \ \ Trenton NJ Times"Perhaps the best aspect of the book, combined with Holland’s style, is the appropriately low-grade temperature of the cat/human philosophizing—nicely situated between Sartre and Wild Kingdom."\ \ \ \ \ Mademoiselle"An absolutely wonderful and sometimes hilarious and always soulful book."\ \ \ \ \ Smithsonian“Smart, bright, well-written....A book about cats as good as this one is rare.”\ \ \ \ \ Philadelphia Inquirer“May be the most elegantly written, witty, perceptive statement about felines ever published.”\ \ \ \ \ Mademoiselle“An absolutely wonderful and sometimes hilarious and always soulful book.”\ \ \ \ \ Trenton NJ Times“Perhaps the best aspect of the book, combined with Holland’s style, is the appropriately low-grade temperature of the cat/human philosophizing—nicely situated between Sartre and Wild Kingdom.”\ \
