Category: Critters
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How Smart is Your Cat?
The Cat I.Q. Test: Measure your cat’s brainpower and social skills and discover your strengths as an owner Miller 1996 When I saw this title in a library catalog I was searching, I thought it must be a book of humorous essays about cats. I like a cat story as…
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Training Muffin to “sit”
Guide to a Well-Behaved Cat Maggitti 1993 So along with diet books, books about holding creative meetings, or books on parenting a teenager, this cat training book will join the ranks of other books that I classify as nonfiction pipe dreams. (It really needs its own subject heading.) Again, we…
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Poultry in the Pulpit
Poultry in the Pulpit: Further Revelations of the Vet in the Vestry Cameron 1988 Submitter: Not sure what to make of this from the cover. Holly: This is the memoir of a veterinarian who became a minister. Here’s the Publishers Weekly review. It also got good reviews on GoodReads. The…
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Psychic Pets
Submitter: The eyes of the dog and cat on the cover are very disturbing. If glowing ink had been on offer from the publisher, I’m sure this book would have used it. Inside there are few pictures, none of them seemed to “capture” phychic-ness, in my opinion. I have included…
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Trading Tongues with Tweety
Hand Feeding Baby Birds Cooper 1979 Submitter: The back cover on this one is especially interesting. He’s trading tongues with a bird??? Holly: For the love of all things holy, what is happening here? Whyyyy would you do that? Birds are to me like clowns are for Mary. I just…
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No Naughty Cats
No Naughty Cats: The First Intelligent Guide to Cat Training Pirotin and Cohen 1985 Submitter: First of all, 1985. Cover, design, everything is old-fashioned and faded. Second, training your cat to come when called? If you want a dog, get a dog. And finally… doesn’t seem like the program worked…
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