You'd expect a book about cats to be more fluffy, but mass eradication is what you get. This book as pretty factual but has no stance; one minute it's gushing about cats and the next it butchers them with words. As of three weeks ago, I know that when writing anything, you need to take a stance and stop being a POV pendulum.

I remember reading a story about how a lighthouse keeper's cat caused the extinction of an entire species of a bird just by herself in Australia. The book keeps talking about Australia hating cats and uses tons of examples that are weirder than this. However, it doesn't really support the cat-hating, which makes me a little confused about its stance on the topic.

It's mostly anti-cats. The book says they're useless, mean, uninvested in having a relationship with their owners, disease spreading, ruthless, and hostile animals. But they make cute meme-templates so... They're good.

It's so weird that the author is a cat owner.

As one of the millions of people out there who love and adore cats, I really enjoyed this book. I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Arden Hammersmith, who read like it was her very own story. You could feel the kitten love.

This isn't necessarily a book I would quickly recommend to many people (I just really like cats and non fiction :-)), but if you are a feline fan, you most certainly should check this out. Some of the information presented I was already familiar with, some of it was shocking, and some of it was really eye opening. Humans and cats have shared such a complicated, long history; I'm still amazed cats didn't become a 'housecat' until the 1950's.

I learned a few things I may be doing wrong with my own furbaby. How I could be unintentionally stressing her out or not considering how we each impact the others' environment. Granted, some people may think it's going a little 'too far. It's just a pet,' but some people's pets are more than just that- they're a reliable, comforting being that, as a house pet, also relies on us for their needs.

I could go on and on with "Oh, did you know," and "guess what else," but you can read it for yourself. :-)

An interesting history of how cats came to live with humans even though they don't really contribute anything to us; they don't help with agriculture, don't provide us with food, don't improve our health, kill small animals and drive extinctions world wide. But with all the problems they have caused we love them, I love them. The problems with this book lie with the fact that it seems like there is no hope for controlling the cat population and that we are to blame. Have indoor cats she offers as a fix, but then she tells you that it is basically torturing the animals; get the strays castrated, but that will make them live longer allowing them to kill more small animals. So it is very hopeless and guilt inducing both of which will cause people to ignore the message that something needs to be done about cat overpopulation.

Americans are clearly obsessed with cats. I recently asked a friend what the internet would be like without cat pictures and cat videos and he replied, "Super fast." I think that he has a point. As a person who serves as staff to two adorable cats who have consented to live in my house, I, obviously, was the perfect reader for this book. All hail the feline.