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Call of the Cats: What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony Paperback – November 8, 2016
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- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNew World Library
- Publication dateNovember 8, 2016
- Dimensions5 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
- ISBN-101608683982
- ISBN-13978-1608683987
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― Marty Becker, DVM, America’s Veterinarian and author of Your Cat: The Owner’s Manual
“Andrew Bloomfield’s heartfelt memoir is not just about his unconditional love for the feral-cat colony that he came to know and adopt. It’s also a much larger portrait of how we can live with, and gently support, animals, who are all at our mercy.”
― Patrick McDonnell, creator of MUTTS and illustrator of Guardians of Being
“Great writing is great storytelling, and Andrew Bloomfield is a great storyteller. This book is, in a word, stunning!...Buy it for every cat lover you know, as well as every ‘not yet’ cat lover. If this book doesn’t win them over, I don’t know what will.”
― Amelia Kinkade, author of Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
“Call of the Cats is like Born Free in an urban backyard, full of remarkable detail about the wild life around us and the extraordinary emotional attachments that can exist between human beings and the untamed animals that occasionally share our lives.”
― Bruce Joel Rubin, Academy Award–winning screenwriter of Ghost
“While claiming not to be a ‘cat person,’ Bloomfield nevertheless is a deeply compassionate man in his interventions on behalf of the feral felines....This isn’t a superficial work, and the author provides many pages of references, as well as resource websites for organizations that deal with feral animals. All in all, a very engaging and highly recommended book.”
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- Publisher : New World Library (November 8, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1608683982
- ISBN-13 : 978-1608683987
- Item Weight : 10.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #273,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #175 in Animal & Pet Care Essays
- #1,975 in Fauna
- #8,689 in Memoirs (Books)
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Like Andrew Bloomfield, I feed, love and agonize over feral and stray cats. If one or more are not doing well, neither am I! Bloomfield is wise, insightful and funny as hell. His chapter "The Naming of Cats" (which includes he and his room mates' annual "Kitty Oscar Award ceremony" (the "Koscars" for short) is a gem, and something only true cat fanatics would understand. THANK YOU for your extreme love and devotion to cats in need.
I was initially drawn to this book because of my own experience with a starving stray cat. On a blisteringly hot August day, it appeared on my driveway last year vocally begging for help. He was skeletal and had bare patches in his fur from being infested with ticks and fleas.
Oh, the mistakes I made in trapping and neutering him. The bargain surgery turned into an expensive several month debacle of surgeries, antibiotic PICC lines and loss of income after being bitten. And yet here he remains, living in a Kitty Tube beside my house. Loving, playful and flirtatious but never quite sure he can completely trust me after being trapped and neutered.
There is some excellent history of cats interspersed occasionally as well.
I highly recommend it.