Today Is All About Cats!

When I came in today, I wasn't sure what my thoughts for the blog would be. But after getting my coffee and talking with a couple of coworkers about this little kitty I have, all I could do was think about her.
You see, she's an orphan that I rescued when she was about six weeks old and weighed one pound six ounces. Now she's five months old, and all the time she's been growing she has been like a ping pong ball! She has literally turned my home upside down. I've had to remove and hide so many items, I may never be able to find them all! And the fact that my older cat is not particularly happy about the kitty is another problem.
Of course, since I work in a library, I always wonder what kind of books we have to solve any problem I might have at a particular time. This seemed to be one of those times. So, with Johnnie's help, I located a few books about cats that I thought might help me.

• Helga Fritzsche's Cats, A Complete Pet Owner's Manual, With A Special Chapter: Understanding Cats. (Wonder if there's a chapter that tells you how to take the bounce out of ping pong balls?)
• Harry Miller's The Common Sense Book of Kitten and Cat Care. (This book gave me encouragement about a four-to-nine month old kitten. If we can live through the next few months, we just might make it!)
• Catlore by Desmond Morris has on its front cover: "Why cats purr and everything else you ever wanted to know." (This book answers some interesting questions, such as: Are there ideal cats for allergy suffers? Why is a cat called a cat? Why are cats attracted to people who dislike them? I'm going to check this book out for sure!)
• The Cat by Muriel Beadle is A Complete Authoritative Compendium of Information about Domestic Cats. (From Chapter 1 "The Chase" through Chapter 8 "How Sociable?" to Chapter 17 "Man and Beast Together," there's much to learn from this book.)
• Brian Kilcommons and Sara Wilson's Good Owners, Great Cats has a lot of promise for my kitty also. Or maybe I should have said for me. I need to check this book out also, because there are chapters about "Preventing Bad Habits," "The Great Declaw Debate," and "Chewing and Suckling Behaviors."
• And the last book I picked up is For the Love of Cats by Amy D. Shojai and Irene Gizzi. It's just a fun book of knowledge about cat history, behavior, their five senses, myths and lore, and beautiful pictures of famous people with their cats.

Maybe someone out there in blogland is going through a similar problem with a kitty. I do have a problem, don't I? Or do I? Maybe I'm just learning to live with a baby who has growing pains. Or maybe she has no problems at all. Maybe it's just me! Anyhow, for all cat lovers, the library does have some good books about cats, whether you're trying to solve a problem like I am or just want to read cat books for fun. Look for those good books in the nonfiction section, number 636.8. They're right beside the dog section. Where else?