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House Cat: How to Keep Your Indoor Cat Sane and Sound Paperback – Illustrated, February 1, 2005

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Indoor cats are not deprived. . .

. . . in fact, keeping your cat indoors can add ten or more years to his life. Here's how to add quality to those years. Along with the scoop on litter boxes, creating a cat-safe home, and achieving a truce between cat and couch, this updated edition supplies the latest on nutrition for indoor cats, new vaccines and medicines, coping with feline emotions, and other essentials that make life more rewarding for you and your cat.
* Help an outdoor kitty become a happy house cat
* Discover innovative new cat-care products and scores of online resources
* Learn about new treatments and medications for common illnesses
* Take the trauma out of travel (yes, you CAN train a cat to walk on a leash)
* Find out how to provide basic nursing care and first aid

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English
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Howell Book House
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February 1, 2005
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6.18 x 0.61 x 9.32 inches
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0764577417
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978-0764577413
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* ""This revised edition incorporates the tried and true with the newest advances in cat-care products and veterinary care."" (I Love Cats Magazine, May/June 2005)

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Indoor cats are not deprived. . .

. . . in fact, keeping your cat indoors can add ten or more years to his life. Here's how to add quality to those years. Along with the scoop on litter boxes, creating a cat-safe home, and achieving a truce between cat and couch, this updated edition supplies the latest on nutrition for indoor cats, new vaccines and medicines, coping with feline emotions, and other essentials that make life more rewarding for you and your cat.

Help an outdoor kitty become a happy house cat
Discover innovative new cat-care products and scores of online resources
Learn about new treatments and medications for common illnesses
Take the trauma out of travel (yes, you CAN train a cat to walk on a leash)
Find out how to provide basic nursing care and first aid

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Howell Book House; Second edition (February 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764577417
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764577413
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.18 x 0.61 x 9.32 inches

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Writing has always been in Ms. Church's blood. At age 9, she would write picture books (about horses of course), tape them together (too young for staples??) and even give them a publishing house name (Church Books; what else?). To this day, those books sit in storage somewhere. In school, Church could be found in the back of the classroom, writing short stories (and still managing A's in English and Art).

As a lifetime horse lover, in 2004, she was finally able to live her dream of owning a horse. A magnificent horse who saved her life (memoir pending).

Church's first book, House Cat (non-fiction) was traditionally published when an editor who rejected it left the publishing house, and the new editor pulled the manuscript from a pile of 200 rejected manuscripts, only to see it to publication. From there, she received offers from Animal Planet (when it was still about animals) and more book assignments. Her book Indoor Cats won the 2001 Iams Responsible Cat Ownership Award.

After working for years honing her fiction skills, Ms. Church made the decision to write a novella, a brainstorm idea introducing a brand new, conceptual and innovative vampire series in a way never before done. As a no-name in fiction, this was a big, bold move. With no cash, no job (on disability), she put the book out all on her own; writing, editing, cover design, formatting, everything. Though far from perfect, this was a big step and a big dream.

Book One received a Finalist Medal in the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and Book Two received the 2017 Finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award.

Christine Church embraces reviews and loves talking to readers! To learn more, get freebies and join contests for free books, please visit www.christinechurch.net/contests

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Denise Escamilla Ortiz

Indoor cats can be as fit and happy as any other cat

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2010

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I have owned cats all my life, but strangely enough I haven't read much regarding this topic. However, this is the first time I have 4 indoor cats, and I really needed some guidance as to how to keep them healthy, fit and sane. I used to live in a big house with a large garden for them to roam free. Now I live in a medium size apartment with only a small terrace. When they were younger I let them out, but I have nasty neighbors who hate cats and have threatened to poison them. And since I love them too much to give them up just for the whim of heartless and insensible people, I opted to raise them as indoor cats instead.

The book has tons of information regarding this issue. The author talks about her own experience with indoor cats, as well as things that she has learned in different places. It covers pretty much everything from cat's health, nutrition, entertainment, medical information, etc. It is well written, and has lots of web links to pet store products, animal organizations, cat pages, and what not so you can look further into some specific topics. It even has a couple of recipes for homemade cat snacks, which are great by the way.

I am grateful for all this information because it has worked well so far with my cats. I even take them out one at a time with a leash and although they don't love the idea, they still enjoy their time out. I watch more carefully what they eat, and I play every day with them to keep them fit and sane. Indoor cats don't have to die of boredom or depression, they can enjoy their way of life if you make it comfortable and pleasant. And if that's your intention, this book will help you get started.

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SouprDoupr

Misleading Title

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 19, 2013

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I bought this book because of the title. I have 2 indoor cats and hoped this book would have suggestions for activities that would help keep an indoor "Sane and Sound." No way. This book contains only generic basic information on how to care for kittens/cats. If you are looking for information strictly about indoor cats, save your money. This book ain't it.

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Cymthia Vegh-whisnant

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 20, 2013

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Haven't heard any complaints. Book seems to be entertainment for my mother-n-law.
She likes reading it and I think it helps.

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Burke

Not much you haven't read before

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2011

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HOUSE CAT: HOW TO KEEP YOUR INDOOR CAT SANE AND SOUND had little new infomation and was a bit on the dull side. I suggest only novice cat owners give it a read.

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Joann D. Eubanks

House Cat

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 2, 2010

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This was a very informative, entertaining book that will help us to spoil Lizzie, our very special little four legged friend, even more than before!

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Mr. C. O. Jones

How to salve the guilty consciences of cruel cat jailers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 13, 2010

This book would be better called 'How to ensure your cat becomes a neurotic wreck'.

In it we find all sorts of excuses to make your cat behave totally unnaturally so that it fits in with what's convenient for you. I was absolutely disgusted to read about training your cat to use the human toilet, putting your cat in diapers and declawing. And all this is described as though you're being a caring owner by doing it. No cat can be happy shut up all day in the house, especially not with the kind of person who thinks that imprisoning and mutilating their cat makes them a loving owner. The real reason people don't let their cats out is not concern for the cat's welfare but their own selfishness and emotional insecurity.

To give you an idea of this, I quote the story of Taffy who wanted to go out her whole life and was never allowed to do so until she was so old and weak she couldn't run anywhere. How unspeakably cruel - and yet the author (and other reviewers of this book) cite this as an example of how kind they are! What planet are you living on?

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Kameelyun

The dedication and introduction brought tears to my eyes!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2008

About two years ago, I did a complete 180 and became a cat lover, having previously felt indifferent toward them. In January of this year I adopted a beautiful tabby cat from the adoption room at PetSmart (where I purchased this book also, right at the end of the cat food aisle).

I am so grateful to have purchased an independent book on the subject, rather than the equivalent from the "For Dummies" or "Complete Idiots' Guide" series. Christine Church presents her suggestions, her do's and don'ts, in a very engaging and lively way through numerous anecdotes involving her own many cats. She has owned as many as eleven cats (and at least one dog). The book is informative on a number of subjects; I was enlightened to learn, for example, that not only is declawing painful, it can change the personality of some cats for the worse. Previously social and friendly cats sometimes become mean and withdrawn after losing their beloved claws. After reading "House Cat" I can safely say I won't have my cat declawed.

The story of Gillie was both heartbreaking and heartwarming! What an incredible cat, to survive cancer for so long and hop around on three legs! When I see his picture on the dedication page, I regret that I never met this cat in real life.

I was also quite touched by the story of Taffy, the cat who always longed to go outdoors and was granted her wish late in life when she was too frail to possibly run stray. Taffy is one of the several feline dedicatees of the book; Christine Church writes: "For Taffy, whose life brought sunshine to mine and all who knew her. I'm glad I was able to give you sunshine in the end."

With excellent photos to supplement, this is a well-written book indeed.

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