A review by menniemenace
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World by Abigail Tucker

3.0

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.