Kitty Wigs Book
March 17th 2010 21:00
Like many shoppers, I find it hard to resist a sale. So when one of my favourite book shops had a 20 per cent off everything sale, I decided it was time to get some more cat books.
Hence, Glamourpuss: The Enchanting World of Kitty Wigs by Julie Jackson: HERE.
At first, I thought the book was silly but also funny. And I was not the only one: when I went to pay for it, the lady at the counter burst out laughing. Can you imagine a book featuring a dozen or so cats wearing tiny wigs, designed especially to fit on their little kitty heads? I marvel at the hours of patience it must have taken to get these shots; I cannot imagine Butterscotch letting someone put a wig on his head, much less him being amiable enough to sit there and let some human take photographs of him in undignified poses.
Despite its silliness, the book has an important message: all the feline models had been rescued or adopted. The author asks the reader to consider getting a cat from an animal shelter. The beauty of the feline subjects, particularly Boone the Siamese cat, proves that the idea that animal shelters only have stray, non-pedigree or cats that have “something wrong with them” is nothing more than a myth.
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