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    Cats Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Our Feline Friends
    Cats Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Our Feline Friends
    Cats Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Our Feline Friends
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    Cats Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Our Feline Friends

    By Lesley O'Mara

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    Cats Miscellany provides readers with a fun collection of feline facts, anecdotes, and tales. In this truly fanciful work, author Lesley O’Mara has crafts a kaleidoscope of information which is sure to delight every cat lover. What happened when Charles Dickens discovered that his cat William was really a Williamina? How do you tell if your cat is truly fat? How long did it take one Florida housecat to track down his owners after they had moved to California?

    Filled with heartwarming tales, historical anecdotes, unique quotes, and so much more, Cats Miscellany is sure to satisfy human curiosity the whole year round. Delightfully illustrated and beautifully designed, this quirky and entertaining book is the perfect gift for pet lovers and ailurophiles” of any age.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateNov 23, 2011
    ISBN9781628732887
    Cats Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Our Feline Friends
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    Lesley O'Mara

    Lesley O'Mara is the editor of Which Way to the Vomitorium?: Vernacular Latin for All Occasions, as well as the bestselling British anthologies Greatest Cat Stories, Favourite Cat Stories, and Best Cat Stories. She lives in London.

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      Cats Miscellany - Lesley O'Mara

      Copyright © 2011 by Lesley O’Mara

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

      Skyhorse Publishing books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or info@skyhorsepublishing.com.

      Skyhorse® and Skyhorse Publishing® are registered trademarks of

      Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.®, a Delaware corporation.

      www.skyhorsepublishing.com

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      O'Mara, Lesley.

      Cats miscellany : everything you always wanted to know about cats / Lesley O'Mara.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 978-1-61608-356-4 (alk. paper)

      1. Cats—Miscellanea. 2. Cats—Anecdotes. I. Title.

      SF445.5.O435 2011

      636.8--dc23

      2011015239

      Printed in China

      CATS

      MISCELLANY

      EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED

      TO KNOW ABOUT OUR FELINE FRIENDS

      Lesley O’Mara

      Skyhorse Publishing

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Ten Reasons Why You Have to Own a Cat

      Cat Lovers

      Cat Ancestors

      It’s a Cat’s World (1)

      Some Cat Breed Facts

      Cats’ Bodies

      Cats on Postage Stamps

      The White Cat

      Cats’ Whiskers

      Cat Trouble

      Cats’ Incredible Journeys (1)

      Cats’ Food

      Famous Cat Owners (1)

      Purring

      Cats’ Ears

      Cat Naps

      Top Cats

      More Cats

      Cats’ Chat

      Cats Versus Dogs

      Cats and Milk

      Having Kittens

      Some Cat Behaviors

      Cats’ Curiosity

      Some Cat Care

      How to Litter Train Your Cat

      Cats’ Eyes

      Cat and Mouse

      Cat Fun

      Hazardous Plants

      Some Plants Poisonous to Cats (1)

      Famous Cat Owners (2)

      Catty!

      Getting Rid of Fleas

      Catnip

      Photographing Your Cat

      Catty Problems Solved

      Cats Versus Humans

      Not for the Squeamish

      Some Famous Cats

      Cats’ Legs and Paws

      Cats in High Office

      Some Plants Poisonous to Cats (2)

      Celebrity Cats

      Cat Legends

      It’s a Cat’s World (2)

      Cats Skin and Fur

      Cat Myths

      Some Cat Luck and Lore

      Some More Cat History

      Nine Lives

      Each Nation to its Own: Cat Superstitions

      The Black Cat

      Cats’ Blood

      More Lore: Cats and the Weather

      Record-Breaking Cats

      Cats’ Noses

      Some Plants Poisonous to Cats (3)

      Miscellaneous Cat Facts

      Everlasting Cats

      Cats and Computers

      How to Befriend a Cat

      Famous Cat Owners (3)

      Famous Ailurophobes

      Fat Cat: How to Tell if Your Cat is Overweight

      Cats in Art

      Cats in Ancient Egypt

      A Few Cat Dangers

      Cats in Advertising

      Cats and Music

      Cats’ Mouths

      Believe It or Not

      Inventions for Cats

      Cats’ Tails

      A Great Mouser

      Cats and Birds

      Cats’ Incredible Journeys (2)

      Cats at War

      A Cat Hotel

      Cat Tricks

      American Cat Laws

      How to Toilet Train Your Cat

      Great Heights

      The World According to Cats

      Famous Cat Owners (4)

      Cat Names

      Other Cat Colors

      It’s a Cat’s World (3)

      Louis Wain

      Some Plants Poisonous to Cats (4)

      Chit C(h)at

      Contrary Cats

      How to Draw a Cat

      Cats in Trees

      Mincha

      American writer Cleveland Amory said it best when he noted, As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. Sleek and beautiful, cute and cuddly, temperamental and vivacious—no creature is as fascinating as the cat.

      No one knows where the domesticated cat first appeared, but cats have been tolerating co-habitation with their fur-challenged primates for at least 4,000 years. We’ve been struggling to understand them ever since.

      Since the dawn of civilization felines have been portrayed in cultures across the globe as both the best of friends and the worst of enemies. Those who would hiss and scratch are also those who would purr and snuggle against your side. Those who can hunt with such deadly purpose can also lie in a sun beam for hours on end (good luck to anyone who has ever tried to move a sleeping cat). While we’ve been living with and loving these playful pets, we’ve painted pictures, sung songs, written books, and generally done everything we can to try to capture the elusive magic of these beloved creatures.

      This book is a celebration of all things cat and kitten, feline and furry (not excluding of course, those lovable hairless breeds). Within these pages you’ll find advice, anecdotes, and even a bit of playful purring. We may never be able to fully understand these wonderful creatures, but maybe we can satisfy a bit of your own cat curiosity.

      1)    Cats are always interested in whatever you are interested in.

      2)    Cats never criticize.

      3)    Cats don’t mind what you watch on TV.

      4)    Cats never need a babysitter.

      5)    You never have to get up at 2 am to feed a cat.

      6)    Cats don’t talk back.

      7)    It’s easy to make dinner for a cat.

      8)    Cats don’t need to be walked.

      9)    Cats don’t run up huge telephone bills.

      10)  Cats don’t mind if you call them silly names.

      The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

      —Leonardo da Vinci

      There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life:

      music and cats.

      —Albert Schweitzer

      Time spent with cats is never wasted.

      —Colette

      The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.

      —Ernest Menaul

      No Heaven will not ever Heaven be unless my cats

      are there to welcome me.

      —Anonymous

      I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little,

      they become its visible soul.

      —Jean Cocteau

      There are no ordinary cats.

      —Colette

      Never underestimate the power of a purr.

      —Anonymous

      No one knows exactly when or how the cat first appeared on earth. Most agree, however, that the cat’s most ancient ancestor was almost certainly a weasel-like animal called Miacis, which lived between forty and fifty million years ago. Miacis is believed by many to be the common ancestor of all land-dwelling carnivores, dogs as well as cats. But evidence suggests that the first cat appeared millions of years before the first dog.

      Perhaps best known of the prehistoric cats is Smilodon, the saber-toothed cat sometimes called a saber-toothed tiger. This formidable animal hunted throughout much of the world but became extinct long ago.

      Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges.

      Cats have the courage to live by them.

      — Jim Davis

      Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in

      their minds than we are aware of.

      —Sir Walter Scott

      Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about days,

      take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.

      —Stephen Baker

      A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays,

      and for the last three

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