Not Another Cat Book (revisited)
April 8th 2009 21:00
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You might remember a similar post I did late last year. As an avid reader, I have hundreds of books at home. Most of them I will read at least once.
On the weekend, I was tempted to buy another cat book. This one was called Your Cat Interpreter by David Alderton. I know, I know. I already have at least a dozen books about cats but I couldn’t stop looking at this one. I must have looked at it at least twenty times. Whenever I visited my local bookshop I would have a flick through it. Finally I decided that if I looked at it that many times there must have been something about it I really liked to I decided to fork out $35 for it.
I was not disappointed. At first, I thought it would be the usual how-to-look-after-your-cat book but it was more about cat psychology and body language. The chapter I found the most interesting was the one about how big a role cats play in superstition and mythology. For example, did you know that while black cats are considered to be bad luck in America, the opposite is true in England? Or that there are many cat legends that are based on the following theme: A person injures or kills a cat late one night. The next day another person is found injured or killed the same way. A case in point: one William Montgomery lived in Caithness. He was plagued by cats at his home. One night, fed up with the noise, he grabbed an axe and killed two of them and injured the third. The next day, two old women were found dead and a third one had a strange wound to her leg. No one could explain how it got there. This chapter on cat myths is worth the price of the book.
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