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.