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Tracie Hotchner (Author)
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October 18, 2007
The only fully comprehensive guide to “all things feline,” from the host of Cat Chat on Martha Stewart Living Radio.

Finally, a definitive book that delivers many unknown facts about every aspect of caring for and sharing your life with a cat, ranging from proper nutrition and strange behavior to medical care and multi-cat households, to grooming and geriatrics. The Cat Bible explains the mysteries of feline behavior to owners who are devoted to their cats without being able to fully understand them. It offers straightforward solutions to the problems that cause people to give up their cats, many of which are preventable, including litter box avoidance, furniture scratching, and physical ailments.

There are more than 90 million American households that count cats as family members, but they are a vastly underserved population, devoted to their kitties, yet bereft of all the public attention, programming, and print devoted to dogs. Now, bestselling author and investigative journalist Tracie Hotchner offers them The Cat Bible, with straightforward, fact-filled solutions to health and behavior problems, based on years of research into the real reasons behind these issues. In the same warm, straightforward style that attracts devoted listeners to her radio shows, Tracie tackles controversial topics such as the truth about commercial dry pet foods and their dangers, bringing readers the latest facts on every topic that affects a feline’s well-being.
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About the Author

Tracie Hotchner is the author of the million-copy bestseller Pregnancy & Childbirth, which was nominated for the American Book Award, as well as three other books on pregnancy. She has appeared on national talk shows, including the Today show and Oprah, and she lives in East Hampton, New York, with her three dogs, Jazzy, Billy Blue, and Scooby Doo.

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Gotham; 1 edition (October 18, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592403255
  • ASIN: B0017I2908
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #995,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Go to www.thedogbible.com to see a photo of me, and all the canine things i've been up to (along with a small biography of non-canine accomplishments).

 

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133 of 159 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars apparently author is a dog person, July 18, 2008
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kmw (southeast) - See all my reviews
Whoa. I am a cat lover. In fact, I am a lover of all animals. Anyone who "gives away" their animals, as far as I'm concerned, might as well be abandoning their children. And that's why I cannot recommend this book.
On page 252, Hotchner blithely discusses giving away 2 cats, Bert and Ernie, after acquiring a third dog. Huh? This is the same woman who chides the reader for not understanding that a cat is a 10 to 20 year commitment? I don't get it.
Well, apparently she acquired a puppy, which then created a pack mentality among the dogs. "So I gave the cats to a friend."
She was about as emotional as discussing discarding day-old bread.
So the cats had been living happily with your two dogs before you brought a new puppy into the home? Wouldn't it make sense to find the relatively emotionally unattached puppy a new home rather than destroying the lives of your two devoted cats?
Bottom line: I wonder if the DVM who endorsed this book thoroughly digested that heartbreaking nugget...ditto the humane society endorser.
The subhead of this book should be altered to read: Everything your Cat Expects You to Know: Please don't Abandon Me. I will Bond to You. I need to Know You are There for Me forever.
If someone writes a "Cat Bible" it would help if 1) they actually had credentials in the veterinary field and b) they actually liked cats.
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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Less of a Bible, more of a sermon, March 8, 2010
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E. Kitchell "Ellen" (Iowa City, IA United States) - See all my reviews
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When I hear the word "Bible" I tend to think of a definitive, comprehensive source regarding the topic...however, this book was a collection of prejudices strewn together without a lot to back it up. The "cat nutrition" issue and pet vaccine sections espoused in her book were off the mainstream but only mentioned 2-3 people that could support this viewpoint.

I agree with some of the other reviewers that her "advice" is often inconsistent--for example, "all cats should be spayed and neutered, there is a horrible overpopulation problem, kittens are dying..." but it's great to breed cats if they're "genetically pure." (My cat did not appreciate that, she is lovelier than any purebred, without the inbreeding mutations!...and she is spayed) Having a cat is a joyful, lovely experience, and this book was more of a diatribe against cat owners who would dare raise their cats differently than this (completely-unqualified) journalist recommends. "Cat-a-log" is a much more cat-inspired, humorous book that manages to fairly present as much information that this so-called "Bible" presents.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars contradicts itself, October 28, 2008
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M.R. (Silver Spring, MD) - See all my reviews
This book directly contradicts itself about raw diets and flushable cat litter, making these two confusing subjects even more confusing. Did an actual editor read this before it was printed? Overall, the information in this book doesn't rise above "obvious" very often.
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Before we run through all the ways and places you can find a cat, the responsible thing to do is ask yourself some hard questions about whether you can give a cat a good home. Read the first page
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