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Finally, a definitive book that delivers many unknown facts about every aspect of caring for and sharing your life with a cat, ranging from proper nutrition and strange behavior to medical care and multi-cat households, to grooming and geriatrics. The Cat Bible explains the mysteries of feline behavior to owners who are devoted to their cats without being able to fully understand them. It offers straightforward solutions to the problems that cause people to give up their cats, many of which are preventable, including litter box avoidance, furniture scratching, and physical ailments.
There are more than 90 million American households that count cats as family members, but they are a vastly underserved population, devoted to their kitties, yet bereft of all the public attention, programming, and print devoted to dogs. Now, bestselling author and investigative journalist Tracie Hotchner offers them The Cat Bible, with straightforward, fact-filled solutions to health and behavior problems, based on years of research into the real reasons behind these issues. In the same warm, straightforward style that attracts devoted listeners to her radio shows, Tracie tackles controversial topics such as the truth about commercial dry pet foods and their dangers, bringing readers the latest facts on every topic that affects a feline’s well-being. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9781592403257
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Tracie Hotchner | | Paperback:
| 416 pages | | Publisher:
| Gotham | | Publication Date:
| October 18, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1592403255 | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 39 reviews |
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 Best Cat BookJul 05, 2010
This is the best book I have read on cats. From information on deciding on getting a cat to senior cat. Also talk about feral cats.
0 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 cat bibleMar 27, 2010
I bought this item one month earlier and wanted to buy another to give to a friend.The second one that came was not the quality of the first and I wrote you an email about it's problems.I ended up giving my first book as the gift and having to keep for myself the second one.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Cats are not that big of a mysteryMar 13, 2010
I am not sure I would call myself a cat person, but I would call myself an animal lover. As one of the other posters has said, I would agree that giving up any of my pets would be like giving up a child (from the tiniest crab to my giant 32 pound cat). I have three cats, all of which were adopted 2 from no kill shelters and 1 off the streets. Ages 3, 7, and 8. With that said I admit not buying the book. However I did down load what was a rather sizeable sample on Amazon Kindle. What I got I did not like, the sample is as far as I got with reading this book. I am siding with the rest of the negative reviews as they seem to be the only ones that bothered to read the book in detail.
The author makes claims that you should buy her book because she does what other authors have not done. Even though she admitted prior to this being totally lost on how to connect with her cat. I am not a cat expert, but I have never had a time that I could not connect with my cats, nor has there been a time I did not understand them. Not having this connection prior to starting the book makes me question how she can call herself a cat expert. She also made claims about so many cat books out there are about cats understanding our language and are physic. I have yet to see any books claiming cats are physic, but I am pretty sure that cats do understand some of our words not to mention body language, they after all are very cleaver animals. Cats train you, you don't train them. I can say its bed time and my youngest cat's ears will perk up. When she sees me go to the bedroom she runs and jumps to the usual spot where she sleeps. They are not English experts and going to write a novel, but it does not take an expert to know a certain sound equates to a certain activity. She also makes claims that books do not cover what would stimulate your cat, for that she needs to browse Amazon to see how wrong that claim is. There are so many books whose only subject is on how to entertain your cat. One of my favorite books on cat stimulation is Bird Watching for Cats, published long before her book was out. A favorite past time for my cats and myself (quail being the favorite to watch of the big cat), and when I say "time to feed the birds" they all run to the window to watch me refill the feeders.
Because of her claims of their not being any comprehensive books on cats, I can tell you she did not do enough research. I have probable spent an hour total in the last 20 years to acquire 12 books on cats . You would think she could have spent at least a few weeks on researching the books of her competitors.
Then there is her whole thing about how a $15 toy is worthless and its better to get bottle caps and such. My cats have mostly similar interests in toys, they like the paid for stuff, and the free stuff. My two girls like the little noisy plastic balls, while one of the girls and my big guy love paper bags. Another likes a $16 toy that I previously reviewed on Amazon, while the other two cats do not. Then there is the stuffed toy rabbit with a pink ribbon my niece left that the big boy cat like to sleep with. The list of what each cat likes is long and complicated where one toy is failed with 1 or 2 cats there is a cat that likes it.
Perhaps it's the sample, but the formatting sucked. After the whole you should buy my book because its better then everyone else's book, she broke into the questions that you should ask yourself before getting a cat. I really felt the questions if not the whole sample was condescending. Frankly the people that she was hoping to talk out of getting a cat are the same people that would not bother getting books on cats. Chances are the person that would buy a book on cats would already have one or more. I buy books on cats to make sure I can offer my cats the best possible living conditions. Granted many of the books I have were before my three cats, but bought when I had other cats.
Without any break she goes in to a whole tangent on why you should get pet insurance for your pet. Which is great since pet insurance is a fairly new and growing product and people should know where to get pet insurance and what to look for in a policy. This is information that should be under a chapter on pet health care, not taking up more space then the rest of the questions that you should ask yourself before getting a cat. Soon after she goes into how to acquire a cat, that soon changes to breeds of cats.
Based on the sample I have to discourage anyone from buying this book if they want serious information for their cat.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Less of a Bible, more of a sermonMar 09, 2010
When I hear the word "Bible" I tend to think of a definitive, comprehensive source regarding the topic...however, this book was a collection of prejudices strewn together without a lot to back it up. The "cat nutrition" issue and pet vaccine sections espoused in her book were off the mainstream but only mentioned 2-3 people that could support this viewpoint.
I agree with some of the other reviewers that her "advice" is often inconsistent--for example, "all cats should be spayed and neutered, there is a horrible overpopulation problem, kittens are dying..." but it's great to breed cats if they're "genetically pure." (My cat did not appreciate that, she is lovelier than any purebred, without the inbreeding mutations!...and she is spayed) Having a cat is a joyful, lovely experience, and this book was more of a diatribe against cat owners who would dare raise their cats differently than this (completely-unqualified) journalist recommends. "Cat-a-log" is a much more cat-inspired, humorous book that manages to fairly present as much information that this so-called "Bible" presents.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Good general overview, provides a lot of informationMar 04, 2010
This book gives a good general overview of a lot of topics and goes into a little more depth on others. I do feel that the author is somewhat biased in his/her presentation of some controversial topics (feeding wet food vs dry food). It is definitely a good reference book to have around and answers a lot of questions a new pet owner would have.
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