Category: Critters
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On all Fours

Mrs Allen on All Fours Develop the Perfect Relationship with Your Pet Allen 1999 This is a dog training book, but of course my inner 12 year old boy was laughing at the title. Maybe because they use “Mrs. Allen” instead of her first name. It just sounds funny in…
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Cat Flexing

Cat Flexing A Catlover’s Guide to Weight Training, Aerobics and Stretching Jackson 1993 What’s not to love? Cats and exercise! I am trying to imagine ANY of the cats I know that would ALLOW this kind of human behavior and I am coming up empty. I am certain that there…
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How to Kill Your Girlfriend’s Cat

How to Kill Your Girlfriend’s Cat Again Daphne 1990 Submitter: While flipping through the humor section of my local library I found this book, How to Kill your Girlfriend’s Cat Again. With jokes about animal abuse, AIDS, and poor Sharon Tate, needless to say, I did not find it funny.…
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Irritating Cats: A Handbook

Cats: and How I Photograph Them Spies 1958 Submitter: I am guessing by the sheer amount of cat books at my local library that a library can never have enough cute cat books. With that said, I am not sure this is a keeper. Here is an old how-to book on…
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Cinderella has gone to the dogs!

Cinderella Wegman 1993 Submitter: I can’t believe this book. I literally did a double-take when I saw the cover, and as I flipped through it, I began to wonder what made the library purchase this book in the first place. The dog/people combos are a bit freaky and probably would…
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Proto-Internet Kitteh!

Mourka: The Autobiography of a Cat Le Clercq 1964 Submitter: We’re a super small academic library at a school that focuses on the shipping industry, engineering, and business. We received an ILL request a few months ago for this title and were surprised to find it in our stacks. The…