Cat Confidential

[dinahsmum]

My Amazon parcel has just arrived so I will take Cat Confidential on my weekend break. I hope I'll enjoy it - seems like lots of CPers have.

[Moli]

I bought Cat Detective a few months back, haven't read it yet though...

[Donna]

Cat Confidential makes very interesting reading, I think!!!

[EmmaG]

I have got the book and I really liked it :)

[Fran]

I have a copy and thought it was very good DM. Think you will enjoy it!

[smudgley]

My CC book is still in the envelope it arrived it when I bought it from E-bay months ago :oops: never have time to read :roll:

[Hreow]

Smudgley! With only a few dozen cats and dogs, and a family to run?!? You *lazy* person! :grin: BTW, how *do* you manage to stretch the time to do all that? No sleep?

I've read it, easy to read. Perhaps too sensible - makes it easy to just nod and read on, rather that making you really think. It's a good book to give (prospective) cat-owners, though.

[smudgley]

Smudgley! With only a few dozen cats and dogs, and a family to run?!? You *lazy* person! :grin: BTW, how *do* you manage to stretch the time to do all that? No sleep?[quote=Hreow]


:-D Not enough hours in the day I think!

Cats / dogs / kids / housework / how do I cope? ......... a very, very helpful & understanding husband is how I manage ;) We share everything & he is great:)

edit to add ~ nearly forgot - I work full time too.:roll:

[Donna]

I read the book when I first got the cats (never owned one before) and it did make complete sense - all so obvious - but easier to understand when it is in black and white!!!

[dinahsmum]

Enjoyed the book but was a little dismayed at how many problems occur in 'multi-cat households' Eeek! Hope it doesn't happen here - never has before

[Hreow]

Of course you get that impression - she deals with "problem" cats and it's a book that helps you know how to spot and fix issues before they happen. There are also heaps of cats living perfectly happy lives in a big pile of mates.
It's the same effect as if you read the papers - easy to get the impression that all youths are bad, everyone steals, cheats and would kill for a fiver etc. instead of the more likely average bunch of no-saint-but-far-from-hardened-criminals with a few bad eggs.

I have yet to see a post here by someone thinking of planning in an extra cat, who hasn't taken into account that it may not fit with the existing cat/crowd. It's a puzzle, but if you care and if you know your cat(s) well enough to make informed decisions (and it still seems like a good idea), then I'd say it's well worth trying, no?

[dinahsmum]

Good point - well made.
We haven't been a single cat household for over 30 years and haven't had any problems in the past, so there's no reason why the arrival of two hooligans should change that!

[Donna]

Obviously there are more chances of things going wrong with the more cats you have - but that doesnt mean to say it will happen... just more likely than if you lived with a single cat (which in turn can have problems of being an only cat!)

[Booktigger]

There were a few things I disagreed with, I can't remember them all now as it was the end of last year I read it, but I think part was the multi-cat household (Esp as she has one), and I think there was a comment about FIV that I disagreed with.