Books you may find of interest
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For detailed information about cat behavior - or to help you solve specific behavior problems you may be having with your cat - I strongly recommend reading any or all of these books - they are all very well written, very informative and interesting:
For feline health care, feeding, emergency procedures, etc., these are very good:
Other interesting and informative cat-related books:
I couldn't possibly list all the heartwarming books I've read about cats, but I will add a few:
  • Henry's World - Henry’s world is a story not just about a cat but about all of us - about trust, community, courage, and resiliency. It is about prejudice and overcoming it, coming to love what we thought we hated, enemies becoming friends and challenges becoming learning experiences.  Henry has a website.
  • Dewey - How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can’t even begin to answer those questions until you read the charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.
  • Homer's Odyssey is the once-in-a-lifetime true story of an extraordinary cat [who happens to be blind] and his human companion. It celebrates the refusal to accept limits—on love, ability, or hope against overwhelming odds. By turns jubilant and moving, it’s a memoir for anybody who’s ever fallen completely and helplessly in love with a pet. I wrote about Homer here.
  • Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat - Oscar lives in a nursing home.  No one knows how he does it, but when he detects that someone is near dying, he takes up residence on their bed and usually stays until the funeral director comes to collect the body. He also offers comfort to the family who are there to be with their loved one during this transition.  I wrote about Oscar here.
Some well-reviewed fiction stories:
  • The Merry Maines: A Shaggy Cat Story - Hawkeye, an outsized Maine Coon cat with extra toes, found life rather dull and ordinary at the MerryMaines Cattery until he fished a small, uppity and very royal Siamese Korat from a raging Penobscot River in Northern Maine. While her paws may never have touched anything but velvet, Bhu Fan quickly teams up with Hawkeye to foil a vicious pair of so-called animal brokers, evil men who tried to coerce Beth Merriman into selling them her cattery under threat of arson. And that is just the beginning of the adventures of this unlikely pairing of allies. Kidnapping, more perils, automobile thieves to be thwarted, life is never quite the same at The MerryMaines.
  • The Moosery - That trio of intrepid feline sleuths is at it again. Hawkeye, Shere Khan and Bhu Fan continue their inquisitive ways when Kazandra, a mysterious Maine Coon of extraordinary pedigree turns up. While cattery owner Beth Merriman is trying to sort out this tangle, Bhu Fan discovers an ancient door under an old barn. When the cats lead Beth to this Viking-era chamber, she doesn't know whether to be dazzled or dismayed. if authentic, it could cost her both farm and cattery. And where does a wounded moose figure in all this?
  • The Cat Who series - The series starts with the story of Jim Qwilleran, a journalist whose career had been derailed by alcoholism and divorce. As a long-time newspaper man, he is mortified when he is given an insignificant column in the features section. He accepts, and in his research he ends up solving a murder. He adopts the victim’s now-homeless cat, Koko, who proves to be the most intelligent and entertaining in literature. Each novel is a vacation for the reader to a quirky, arts-loving, small town “400 miles north of everywhere” where the most important building is the library. Each novel in the series is a who-done-it, with an interesting cast of characters.  There are 30 books in the series, which ended in 2007.
  • The Joe Grey Mysteries are a series (17 books as of 2010) of novels written by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Joe Grey is a talking cat. You'll also meet Dulcie and Kit. The Joe Grey novels have won seven Muse Medallion awards from the Cat Writers Association, and one has won the new World's Best Cat Litter-ary Award, too.
  • Since 1990, Rita Mae Brown and her real-life cat Sneaky Pie Brown have co-authored a cat mystery series (19 books as of 2010): the Mrs. Murphy Mysteries. The novels feature Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen, Mrs. Murphy (a tabby cat), Tucker (a Corgi), and Pewter (a fat gray kitty).
  • Cats of Velvet is a charming, entertaining little book written by Maria Mitchell. Bizco, clearly a remarkably intelligent cat, narrates his life in a collection of cat world tales.
  • Amazon.com has an entire mystery book section of Cat Sleuths
One of the things I've noticed about cat lovers is that they enjoy books by Dean Koontz (why that is, I don't know, since he appears to be more fond of dogs than cats).  If you like his books, you might want to visit the section of my website that is dedicated to Dean Koontz' novels.
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