Books about cats

It's the dark side that most cat owners never see. The side that wouldn't be caught dead purring. Here, in colour, in all their infamy, are hundreds of trouble makers and moggy delinquents. They're bad cats, with bad intentions and bad attitude. So the next time your cat misses the litter tray, ask yourself - was it really an accident?

From the author of 'THE HIDDEN LIFE OF DOGS' comes 'The Secret Life of Cats'.

The unadulterated cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one.

Including more observations from the authors life with cats, this illustrated book also includes her astute Are you a Cat Person? quiz as part of the narrative.

Every single cat carries an inheritance of amazing sensory capacities, vocal utterances, body language and territorial displays. 'What does a cat signal with its ears?' 'Why does your cat tear at the fabric of your chair?' Addressing these questions, this work gives an insight into the nature of your cat.

In 1994, WHY CATS PAINT took the art world and animal world by storm with its unprecedented photographic record of cat creativity. Following in its multicolored pawprints, WHY PAINT CATS ruffled fur in 2002 with its scholarly study of a controversial art movement that treats cats as canvas. Those seminal books in feline aesthetics are now offered in new pocket-size editions filled with the best ..

With black-and-white artwork, this picture book features a kitten character. It is Kitten's first full moon, and when she sees it she thinks it is a bowl of milk in the sky. And she wants it. Does she get it?

A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalised paintings, a fatal fall - this is not what Jim Qwilleran expects when he turns his reportorial talents to art. But with his partner, Koko the Siamese cat, he sniffs out clues and confounds criminals intent on mayhem and murder.

Many people believe that cats do not have an emotional life. The author is convinced that, on the contrary cats are almost pure emotion. He reports on his close observations of their emotional lives. These he divides into nine categories and to each of which he devotes a chapter.

This title for people who have a cat or would like to have one discusses such aspects of cat companionship as: the selection of a cat or kitten, grooming, preventive care, problem behaviours, travel, and household dangers.

This book takes a scientific look at the world of cats: why they do what they do, why they are what they are and how they got to be that way in the first place.

'Kittypet' Rusty strays into the forest beyond his owner's garden and is ambushed by a wild cat. After a brave fight, he is invited to leave the 'twoleg' world and join Thunderclan, one of four cat tribes, to train as a warrior. This is a feline fantasy series that draws you into an animal world.

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. This book follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters.

When the residents of Moose County board the old steam locomotive on its inaugural round trip, little do they realize that this first trip would be the last. The engine owner has gone, along with millions of dollars belonging to depositors.