Cats I Have Known and Loved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cats I Have Known and Loved write by Pierre Berton. This book was released on 2010-04-30. Cats I Have Known and Loved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who would have guessed that one of the great historian’s passions in life is cats? Over the course of his eighty-two years, and from his birthplace in Dawson City, Yukon, to his home in Kleinburg, Ontario, Berton has known and loved many cats. In this charming collection of stories, he has chosen his best cat tales to share with us. Pierre Berton is a master storyteller, and his lyrical writing and sense of pacing and adventure enliven this collection, making it irresistible to any cat lover. The book opens with the adventure of Pousse-Pousse, the cat with extra toes, who was carried off by a Great Horned Owl and, seven months later, reappeared at the door, bedraggled but alive. Pierre Berton’s first cat was Happy, a kitten the teenage Pierre spied in a pet store window “free to a good home.” It was Depression-era Victoria, and the Bertons barely had enough to feed themselves. Still, they kept Happy, and she produced scores of kittens over the years. There are stories of stray cats and “hobo cats,” beloved cartoon cats like Felix and Krazy Kat, and finally, “Rules for Guests,” which includes the following: “No discussion is so intense, no story so riveting, that it can’t be interrupted when a cat enters the room.” This beautifully designed small-format gift book is illustrated with line drawings by Pierre Berton, photographs, and coloured endpapers.
Cats I Have Loved
Cats I Have Loved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cats I Have Loved write by Sara Munson Deats. This book was released on 2015-05-15. Cats I Have Loved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cats I Have Loved celebrates my life with cats. Ten of these indelible individuals, each totally different from the others, shared my adult life. I structured this book around these ten unforgettable, singular individuals, allotting each a chapter, in the hope of capturing the colorful and varied personalities of each of my furry companions and probing the life lessons each has taught me. Additional chapters are devoted to other animals that enlivened my life, including the canines and felines from the Animal Protection League of Tampa Bay, where I served for several years as the “Adoption Lady,” the University of South Florida feral cats, and the amazing birds, bunnies, and dogs that have fluttered, hopped, and trotted in and out of my life as fleeting guests rather than permanent residents. This book also chronicles my husband’s and my struggles to aid animal welfare and prevent animal abuse. Intertwined with the narrative of all these remarkable creatures is the story of a couple who always enjoyed the succor and solace of their feline friends. Ultimately, this book is a tribute to the feline companions that have so enriched my life, providing entertainment and anxiety, laughter and migraines, celebration and heartache, while teaching me so much about love and the meaning of life.
Cats We Have Known
Cats We Have Known - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cats We Have Known write by Dale Grant. This book was released on 2014-04-17. Cats We Have Known available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book is a sharing of the experiences that the author and his wife have had with some of the cats they came to know over the past thirty years. It is at times humorous, at times sad, occasionally informative and always interesting because of the furry spirits who occupy center stage. Cat lovers, and even people who have never come to know a cat, will find the anecdotes and photographs contained within absorbing because of the little creatures wearing fur coats who they will meet. And, for the cat lovers among you, these extraordinary animals will rekindle bittersweet remembrances of cats you have known."
The Beast in the Boudoir
The Beast in the Boudoir - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beast in the Boudoir write by Kathleen Kete. This book was released on 2022-07-15. The Beast in the Boudoir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourgeoisie. Kete's study draws on a range of literary and archival sources, from dog-care books to veterinarians's records to Dumas's musings on his cat. The fad for aquariums, attitudes toward vivisection, the dread of rabies, the development of dog breeding—all are shown to reflect the ways middle-class people thought about their lives. Petkeeping, says Kete, was a way to imagine a better, more manageable version of the world—it relieved the pressures of contemporary life and improvised solutions to the intractable mesh that was post-Enlightenment France. The faithful, affectionate family dog became a counterpoint to the isolation of individualism and lack of community in urban life. By century's end, however, animals no longer represented the human condition with such potency, and even the irascible, autonomous cat had been rehabilitated into a creature of fidelity and affection. Full of fascinating details, this innovative book will contribute to the way we understand culture and the creation of class. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Seven Cats I Have Loved
Seven Cats I Have Loved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seven Cats I Have Loved write by Anat Levit. This book was released on 2022-11-03. Seven Cats I Have Loved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one cat at the suggestion of her daughters, and then six more in quick succession. Anat falls in love with the furry creatures, whose escapades and tribulations lead her into deep friendships, difficult decisions, and unexpected insight into her relationships. The cats love her in the way she wishes she could love others: intensely yet independently, without renouncing their unique personalities. In Seven Cats I Have Loved, she delves into the feline mind with sensitivity, gentleness, and compassion, while also revealing a moving human story. translated by Yardenne Greenspan
