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Why Cats Do That: A Collection of Curious Kitty Quirks »

Authors: Karen Anderson, Wendy Christensen
ISBN-13: 9781572234055, ISBN-10: 1572234059
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Willow Creek Press, Incorporated
Date Published: September 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Karen Anderson

Book Synopsis

Why do Cats Purr? Why do Cats Get stuck in trees? Why do they bring us their latest catch? Why do cats always land on their feet? Learn the fascinating and sometimes surprising facts about these and 36 other curious cat behaviors -- light-heartedly explained and beautifully illustrated in this book. Author Karen Anderson and illustrator Wendy Christensen are both sincere cat-lovers whose admiration and devotion to their feline companions are sure to strike a chord with everyone who has a cat (or many cats!) in their midst.

	Preface	10
	Why do cats rub against everything in sight?	13
	Why do cats scratch the furniture?	15
	Why do cats like small spaces?	17
	Why do cats like high places?	19
	Why do cats sleep all day?	21
	Why do cats' tails whop, wave and quiver?	22
	Why do cats spray?	25
	Why do cats shift their whiskers in and out?	27
	Why do cats rotate their ears?	29
	Why do cats bite your hand during petting?	31
	Why do cats "knead" people with their paws?	33
	Why do cats like massage?	35
	Why do cats' eyes change so much?	37
	Why do cats make a funny chattering sound?	39
	Why do cats make that strange grimace?	41
	Why do cats meow?	43
	Why do cats purr?	47
	Why do cats like to sleep atop us in bed?	49
	Why do cats like paper bags?	51
	Why do cats bat at dangly things?	53
	Why do cats get stuck in trees?	55
	Why do cats always land on their feet?	57
	Why do cats eat grass?	59
	Why do cats cover up their half eaten food?	61
	Why do cats get hairballs?	63
	Why do cats go potty in the neighbor's garden?	65
	Why do cats torture their prey?	67
	Why do cats bring us their latest catch?	69
	Why do cats urinate on the clean laundry, the kitchen stove, in your bed and other places outside of the litter box?	71
	Why do cats spend so much time licking and grooming themselves?	73
	Why do cats hiss?	75
	Why do cats arch their backs?	77
	Why do cats sound as if they're killing each other during mating?	79
	Why do cats dash madly around the house?	81
	Why do cats like catnip?	83
	Why do cats seem so aloof?	85
	Why do cats refuse to cooperate?	87
	Why do cats interrupt our phone conversations?	89
	Why do cats sit down on what we are reading?	91
	Why do cats so completely endear themselves to us?	93