{"id":3148,"date":"2018-12-20T04:09:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2018-12-20T04:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:09:27","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-unusual-and-fascinating-cat-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013Unusual and Fascinating Cat Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lily-008-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lily-008-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lily-008-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lily-008.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Now that you have your Christmas cards sent (right?), your holiday shopping finished, your Christmas dinner planned\u2026how about curling up with a good book. You deserve it! Sure, I\u2019d love it if you\u2019d read some of my Klepto Cat Mysteries\u2014I still recommend a first-time or repeat reading of my two holiday books\u2014<em>A Picture-Purrfect Christmas<\/em> and <em>A Christmas to Purr About.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But there are other cat-related books\u2014LOTS of them. Here\u2019s one that caught my attention. <em>Breaking Cat News\u2014Cats Reporting News That Matters to Cats<\/em> by Georgia Dunn. Sounds fun, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to know more about Jackson Galaxy, from \u201cCats From Hell?\u201d This book is a few years old, but looks interesting. It\u2019s <em>Cat Daddy; What the World\u2019s Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never read any of veterinarian James Herriot\u2019s stories, I highly recommend them. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/22-Christmas-web-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/22-Christmas-web-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/22-Christmas-web-768x1230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/22-Christmas-web-312x500.jpg 312w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/22-Christmas-web.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/>I read all of his books years ago. LOVED his stories and his story-telling style. Herriot practiced in a rural community in Scotland during the 50s. One of his most well-known books is <em>All Creatures Great and Small.<\/em> And have you read the charming book by veterinarian Dr. Louis J. Camuti titled, <em>All My Patients Are Under the Bed<\/em>? I enjoyed that read back in the eighties.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many types of books related to cats\u2014it\u2019s mind-boggling. Here are a few off the wall cat books, <em>The Cats History of Western Art<\/em>; <em>277 Secrets Your Cat Wants You to Know<\/em>; and <em>Why Cats Paint<\/em> (another favorite of mine!!!). You can probably tell that I\u2019m not the most sophisticated reader in town, but I do enjoy animal stories. How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that you have your Christmas cards sent (right?), your holiday shopping finished, your Christmas dinner planned\u2026how about curling up with a good book. You deserve it! Sure, I\u2019d love it if you\u2019d read some of my Klepto Cat Mysteries\u2014I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3149,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}