Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits [Paperback]

Dusty Rainbolt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2007

A mezmerizing collection of strange and unexplainable encounters between human and feline.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

People who have spent a lifetime observing and interacting with cats will say that these amazing animals seem to possess powers - supernatural, psychic, or otherwise - that we can only begin to comprehend. But are they able to return from the grave as well?

In Ghost Cats, the strangely heartwarming tales of cats who have refused to let death part them from their human companions are recounted in vivid and captivating detail. From the chilling "Demon Cat of the Nation's Capitol" to the delightful "Phantom Litter Box" to the touching "Poor Puss" of Stonehenge, there's a plethora of phantasms here for everyone. And what if you receive bedtime visitations from your very own dearly departed kitty? Author Dusty friend explains all the signs of a haunting and offers reasons why your freind has come back.

A thrilling read for the cat and ghost lovers among us, and a consolation for those who have lost a beloved pet, this collection of stories confirms that these wonderful, whiskered creatures capture our imagination as much as they do our hearts, long after they have purred their last.

About the Author

Dusty Rainbolt is product reviewer for Catnip, former product editor for Whole Cat Journal, and the author of Kittens for Dummies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Press; 1 edition (March 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599210045
• ISBN-13: 978-1599210049
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #429,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dusty Rainbolt is an award-winning cat writer according to her answering machine. She recently stopped writing on her cats because they move around too much and smeared ink on the furniture. She's the vice president of the Cat Writers' Association (www.catwriters.org) and author of Cat Wrangling Made Easy: Maintaining Peace and Sanity in Your Multicat Home, Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits, and Kittens For Dummies. She also known for her humorous science fiction novel, All The Marbles. Dusty has co-authored the humorous fantasy novels, The Four Redheads of the Apocalypse and Apocalypse Now! with three other redheaded authors: Linda Donahue, Rhonda Eudaly and Julia Mandala. She pens the monthly feline advice columns, "Dear Hobbes" for City + Country Pets and "Ask Einstein" at www.stickypaws.com. In her real job, Dusty is the product editor and reviewer for Catnip published by Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. She also freelances for Cat Fancy (and anyone else whose checks don't bounce.) Over her writing career she has won 11 Muse Medallions for Excellence and 22 special awards from the Cat Writers' Association. Dusty's been involved in cat rescue for longer than she cares to remember, and she's a feline cat behavior consultant and member of International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants. Visit her website: www.dustyrainbolt.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heartwarming stories about cats and the people who love them, April 27, 2007

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Karen Duban (Highland Village, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits (Paperback)

I loved this book and the stories in them. These stories are true, or at least one is true and I know this because my story is one of them. I could not put this book down once I started it--the people and the cats are wonderful, the names are wonderful, the almost-always sweet encounters between people and cat spirits are wonderful. And I needed to read this book because last October my two dear cats, Huckleberry and Scamper, disappeared within 8 days of each other (displaced suburban coyotes being the most likely culprits). I was still grieving when I read this book and I often found myself teary-eyed and sniffling as I read the different heartwarming stories. But by the end, I was on my way to accepting their deaths and believing that they are still out there, somewhere in the great beyond, loving and being loved. Whether you love ghost stories or cat stories (or now, a combination of both), you'll find GHOST CATS a treasure to read. It's a keeper.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spectral felines, April 9, 2007

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Dorothy F. Skinner "Novelist" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits (Paperback)

If you're looking for ghost stories of the creepy things-that-go-bump-in-the-night variety, then Dusty Rainbolt's GHOST CATS is not for you. Things feline do go bump in the night in the true accounts in this book, but they do so in the most loving, heart-felt way imaginable -- proof positive that the heart that is loved does indeed remember. There's Tigger, the orange tomcat who spends his afterlife patrolling his owners' house, jumping up on their beds and rubbing his whiskers against their faces. There are the cats who flit in and out of sight at the 100-year-old house of the vet who treated them in this life. And there are Kochka, Omar, Sooz, and a slew of other feline ghosts who stopped back one last time to let their grieving owners know they were OK. Yes, this is a book you can't put down, but it's also one that you'll find yourself picking up time and again to remind yourself that "[t]his world is not conclusion." Far from it, as the cats in this book go to show.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing, inspiring, and comforting, August 13, 2007

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Betsy Stowe (Slippery Rock, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits (Paperback)

"Ghost Cats" chronicles numerous paranormal encounters of the feline kind, but the author reveals as much about the power of the heart as she does about the power of the spirit. The book is well-written, well-researched, and a complete joy to read.