Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a famous English novelist, poet and artist. For cat lovers (and even non-cat lovers) his best-known book is ‘The Cat That Walked by Himself’. The illustrations are memorable and remarkably by him. A talented man. Dr Desmond Morris, in his book Cat World describes Kipling as a cat lover (ailurophile). …
Dr Desmond Morris, the renowned author of many books on animal and human behaviour including the definitive ‘CATWATCHING’ describes this book as a ‘classic’ cat book. But a bookseller has a different opinion (see below). I have scanned it and it is a classic cat book but not as we, today, understand the meaning …
Here are 20 facts about cats in children’s literature. I hope you find the page useful and enjoyable. There are some great celebrity cats in literature. They’ve featured in books for centuries. After the persecution of the domestic cat during mediaeval times, in the 18th century the cat again became more popular and their …
About 11 years ago there was quite a lot of discussion and frankly disgust at the release of a comedy cat photo book by author Burton Silver and illustrator Heather Busch called Why Paint Cats: The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics“. An enigmatic title which does point to the ethics of what they did and …
Dr Desmond Morris states that Les Chats by François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif (1687, Paris – 19 November 1770, Paris) is the earliest classic cat books and one of the first books ever written solely about cats. It was published in 1727. He also states that an English version appeared in 1961. It was …
I been asked to review the book “The Way Of Cats” by Pamela Merritt. I’m reading the book at this moment and thought I would take the opportunity to write about a topic that Pamela addresses in an early section of the book about keeping domestic cats off kitchen counters. It is a perennial …
Of course, there are more than four books that you might buy a cat lover this Christmas but I would like to select four because I’ve just written about four reasons why your cat loves you! Catwatching This is the best book on cat behaviour that you can buy. It was written many years …
This is the story of Tommy, a red tabby cat who lived (and may still live) with a guy called Gary Rosheisen. Gary was wheelchair-bound. He suffered from osteoporosis and occasionally had mini-strokes which affected his balance. He lived alone in an apartment with Tommy. He had acquired Tommy three years previous to the …
