Kitty cornered : how Frannie and five other incorrigible cats seized control of our house and made it their home Cover Image

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Kitty cornered : how Frannie and five other incorrigible cats seized control of our house and made it their home / Bob Tarte.

ISBN: 9781565129993
Physical Description: [xi], 288 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012.

Summary:

Unlike obedient and companionate dogs, cats are quixotic, sometimes hostile, fiercely independent, and completely untrainable. So why do we let them rearrange our lives and shred our furniture? This is the question that Bob Tarte answers in Kitty Cornered as explains how his already overrun household gradually increased from one recalcitrant cat to six.

With the same unabashedly anthropomorphic approach that made Enslaved by Ducks so funny, Tarte takes us into the lives of each of the cats that have, one by one, established domain in his house: Agnes, Lucy, Maynard, Moobie, Tina, and-because five cats was not enough-a skittish stray, Frannie, who'd once roamed the woods on the edge of the Tartes' property. Kitty Cornered speaks to everyone who is bewitched by the wildness of domesticated cats, for better and for worse (but, ultimately, for better). Book jacket.