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Cat Miracles: Inspiring True Tales of Remarkable Felines
In this remarkable collection of stories, bestselling authors Brad Steiger and Sherry Hansen Steiger (Dog Miracles, Christmas Miracles) turn their attention to amazing cats that experienced the miraculous. From tales of survival against all odds to stories of courage and heroism,Cat Miracles explores the magic every cat lover knows is a part of the mysterious and inspiring animal that shares our lives and claims our hearts.
Meet some of the fascinating felines in this book:
Bonnie, who attacked a gang of thieves -- and won
Prissy, who saved her sleeping owner from a potentially deadly fire
Kitty, who survived a trip of seventy-five miles under the hood of an automobile
Ninja, who traveled on his own to his family's former home -- 850 miles away
Heidi, who attacked a vicious pit bull -- and protected her poodle pal
Sit back, snuggle up with your favorite feline on your lap, and read these amazing stories
Meet some of the fascinating felines in this book:
Bonnie, who attacked a gang of thieves -- and won
Prissy, who saved her sleeping owner from a potentially deadly fire
Kitty, who survived a trip of seventy-five miles under the hood of an automobile
Ninja, who traveled on his own to his family's former home -- 850 miles away
Heidi, who attacked a vicious pit bull -- and protected her poodle pal
Sit back, snuggle up with your favorite feline on your lap, and read these amazing stories
264 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2003
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August 31, 2018
“Cat Miracles: Inspiring True Tales Of Remarkable Felines” was published in 2003 by Brad & Sherry Hansen Steiger. It boosted my courage and faith. Our precious cat, like a son, went missing a year ago: safe, in daylight. Our babies stick to our property but were confined each day that week, when I helped my parents move in the city. A well-loved son has a motive for going on vacation, despite loving us just as much. Since winter, he will either walk back, be assisted from his tattoo, or our widening range of posters. We are certain your prayers for Conan's safety and return, have already helped him all along!
His birthday with his sisters is September 7th! We would dearly like him back for it, from now on! Our strength, courage, and faith are sustained with stories about cats coming home after a long absence. With this book, reviews paved the way to liking it better! Some felt the second half contained sad stories, or situations they felt would have been avoided, if cats' families had been watchful. I used the information to my advantage. I stopped and switched to the second half.
To my surprise: the stories deemed frustrating, though different from our situation, were enormously encouraging to our unwavering hope! Cats stuck in a wall, or in a crate long-term, survived on moisture. When I finished the chapters of the first half, I concluded on the most spiritual one. Telepathic connection with animals and things like that are right up my alley. Although she was a famous, guest contributor; apparently Brad & Sherry are known for this material too. I had a positive boost from cats' factual, amazing abilities to survive and how they don't really get lost. Janice Gray Kolb's spiritual examples bolstered my determination, too!
His birthday with his sisters is September 7th! We would dearly like him back for it, from now on! Our strength, courage, and faith are sustained with stories about cats coming home after a long absence. With this book, reviews paved the way to liking it better! Some felt the second half contained sad stories, or situations they felt would have been avoided, if cats' families had been watchful. I used the information to my advantage. I stopped and switched to the second half.
To my surprise: the stories deemed frustrating, though different from our situation, were enormously encouraging to our unwavering hope! Cats stuck in a wall, or in a crate long-term, survived on moisture. When I finished the chapters of the first half, I concluded on the most spiritual one. Telepathic connection with animals and things like that are right up my alley. Although she was a famous, guest contributor; apparently Brad & Sherry are known for this material too. I had a positive boost from cats' factual, amazing abilities to survive and how they don't really get lost. Janice Gray Kolb's spiritual examples bolstered my determination, too!
June 10, 2015
True Stories of Cat Miracles
I loved this book about miracles involving cats. Some of these stories brought tears to my eyes. It made me hug my kitty and tell her I loved her. If you enjoy stories about cats and dogs you will like this book.
I loved this book about miracles involving cats. Some of these stories brought tears to my eyes. It made me hug my kitty and tell her I loved her. If you enjoy stories about cats and dogs you will like this book.
January 19, 2013
I really enjoyed this book and found most of the stories heartwarming and sweet. I really could of done without the animal cruelty garbage and felt it had no place in this book - yes I know it was to tell a story, from rags (alleyways) to riches kind of a deal :), but in a light read I could of done without hearing about the (insert several horrible animal cruelty stories here)..
I particularly liked the story about the young farm boy and his faithful companion "Demon" the cat. That story really choked me up :). Or the story about the burglar who thought Frog the cat was a large burmese python in the dark because of Frog's peculiar croaking meow/hiss. Those stories will always stick with me.
Overall I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. I would definitely recommend this book to any cat lover like myself. :)
I particularly liked the story about the young farm boy and his faithful companion "Demon" the cat. That story really choked me up :). Or the story about the burglar who thought Frog the cat was a large burmese python in the dark because of Frog's peculiar croaking meow/hiss. Those stories will always stick with me.
Overall I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. I would definitely recommend this book to any cat lover like myself. :)
November 23, 2010
Anyone who loves cats will enjoy this heartwarming collection of short essays detailing miraculous cat occurences--from cats rescuing their owners and/or other animals from near fatal attacks or accidents, to cats surviving or returning home after encountering monumental obstacles. In addition, this book includes details about cats throughout history and the ways in which various cultures perceived these furry creatures.
September 25, 2018
*some spoilers*
These wonderful stories hold such a place in my heart. As an animal lover and especially a cat lover, this is the perfect book. So many great stories in here showing us how great are feline companions are.
And for the record, every story in here is special, and every cat is magical and special. These are just SOME of the great stories that are in here.
My favorite stories:
-Mahgy (short for Mahogany) was deemed an unadoptable cat, and the woman who adopted her was warned not to. She saw something in her that others didn’t. Mahgy had been returned three times because of her swiping at people. She hissed and growled at the woman who decided to adopt her, and hid under the bed for a couple of weeks when she first brought Mahgy home (obviously coming out for food and her litter box). She would stick her head out and eventually come out all the way in a few weeks, then in two months actually jumped up on the couch with her new owner.
That’s a miracle in and of itself. All cats are miracles of life. But this particular story gets better—there came a point where Mahgy actually saved this woman’s life, by batting her face and chest with its paws, when its owner had fallen asleep—she was practically in a coma, because her blood sugar was way down. Because Mahgy woke her up, she was able to check how low her blood sugar had gotten from her diabetes, and get it back up to where it needed to be. God bless Mahgy.
-Scrooge and Aurelie: Aurelie was a little girl who’d had a severe accident at four, where she’d fallen from a four-story building and was left paralyzed on one side, almost blind, and went mute. When her parents got a cat named Scrooge, he was described as an “antidote” for Aurelie’s depression and loneliness, as she would cuddle and hug the cat all the time. When Scrooge got lost on a vacation, poor Aurelie was devastated to the point of not eating or sleeping, crying every night looking at Scrooge’s empty bed. Her parents were so worried she’d “lost all interest in life.”
But a year later, Scrooge returned after a 600-mile journey, and four-year old Aurelie was in tears of joy. Her parents were ecstatic not just to have their cat back, but to also have Aurelie’s pain be healed. She even started speaking again. Scrooge did need to have his tail amputated due to some of the injuries he sustained from his long and hard trek, but he was back in Aurelie’s loving arms, and described as the perfect cure to Aurelie’s ailments.
-Wally was a cat found in a wall (hence the name) in someone’s house, I think near their bathtub. He survived off of water from the pipes, for forty-five days before rescue. The woman who called to have it investigated thought she was going insane, hearing meows from the wall.
-Oscar saved a toddler from choking to death in his sleep, by breaking the house rule of jumping up on the kitchen counter. He did that and then meowed like crazy to get mom’s attention.
-Puss, 36, is the oldest cat that’s ever lived (at least as of this book. I Googled “oldest cat in the world”, and apparently there is now a cat that has surpassed that, named Cream Puff, at 38).
-Demon was a nickname for a cat that hung around a farm where a teenage boy lived, who jumped on his shoulder and was carried around as the boy did his daily tasks. Then toward evening, when the boy would go into his studio to focus on his art, Demon would show up again at the window ledge, and just sit there watching him. Demon did this daily for a long time. He eventually stopped showing up, which is kind of sad, but it just shows you what a connection someone can have to a cat, even one that’s not their own. I think of all the cats I’ve ever seen or encountered in the outdoors, and any moment between us even if it was just for a second.
-Loretta: Loretta was a cat that hung out in a church in Illinois, in the mid-90s. Pastor Lowell Haugen took a liking to her when he’d found her outside, took her to the vet’s to get her broken leg repaired, and then prepared a little space in his office for her. From then on, she was allowed to roam around the church during services, much to the delight of many of the churchgoers. Unfortunately though, while there are good Christians like them, there are also those who are extremely offended by the silliest things, or who are not all there in the head to the point where they see “evil” in everything. One evening in December, when they had their annual Christmas play, Loretta came up on stage and jumped in the manger. A lot of (normal) people found this adorable, but some got offended and even started making connections between cats and dark magic, calling her “blasphemous”. The pastor, appalled by this, eventually read a passage from a book in church for sermon one morning, telling a story of how Jesus stopped some people from tormenting a cat and how all God’s creatures are special. This seemed to convince the naysayers, and Loretta was back to being the cool cat in church.
-Bounce: In Idaho, Valera Janssen found a kitten in a plastic bag that had been thrown from a car window down a rocky hill toward a river. First of all, FUCK whoever did that, and there is a specific place in hell just for them. Secondly, thank you so much Valera, for rescuing that poor kitten. It went on to be named “Bounce”, and to have a good life with her.
-Frog: Frog was a cat who didn’t meow, he only made a strange croaking, sort of hissing noise. Because of this, when a burglar broke into the house one night and the cat came up to him in the dark making noise, the burglar freaked out thinking it was a snake xD
-It is amazing how different species of animals are ready to take care of each other, even if it’s not necessarily their “own”. There is one chapter in this book about various stories of a grown dog providing milk for kittens, vice-versa with a grown cat doing it for puppies, a cat adopting a mouse (yes), and a cat adopting two wolf cubs.
Sybil: Sybil is a dear lovely little cat who fought off a kidnapper. When her nine-year old owner was walking down the sidewalk to her friend’s house, pushing the carriage that Sybil was curled up in, a car drove up to her and a man came out and tried to grab her. Sybil jumped out of her stroller and leaped at the man’s throat, digging her claws in. Neighbors came out at once and surrounded him until police arrived of course. Turned out he was a sex offender. Then Sybil the hero cat got back in her stroller and curled up again, ready to resume the day as if nothing happened. :D
-Rhoda: In a similar story, Rhoda the cat rescued her owner in the night when the woman was walking back home and got grabbed by someone (there had been several reports of women getting grabbed and beaten by some anonymous person), and Rhoda came and attacked the man. After that, the pattern of scares stopped in that particular city. But the odd thing was that, there was no way for Rhoda to have gotten outside…the doors and windows were all closed and locked. How did Rhoda get out of the house??? It’s a mystery.
-There’s a whole chapter in here about a number of presidents having owned cats. George Washington apparently named his four cats Truelove, Sweetlips, Mopsy, and Madam Moose. One president had a cat named Slippers. And Abe Lincoln apparently took “great delight” in naming kittens in his son’s cat’s litter. The more you know.
-Boris: walked around on his owner’s computer and changed the number of cans of food in the shopping cart from a few, to about 450. The owner hadn’t known until she’d been shocked finding out the total came to about $600. These cats.
-And we end the book with a story about Precious, a cat who survived 9/11. After the Twin Towers were attacked in Manhattan, Precious the white Persian cat had been missing for about two weeks (I think). Her owners, who’d been out of town (which is a miracle because they might’ve been in the way of the damage) mournfully thought she was lost forever under the rubble. But eventually a rescue dog found her and pulled her out. She lost a whole two pounds, and was severely malnourished and dehydrated (I think she’d been living off of condensation, like Wally). She also had burns. Otherwise though, after being brought straight to a veterinarian, she was alright.
These wonderful stories hold such a place in my heart. As an animal lover and especially a cat lover, this is the perfect book. So many great stories in here showing us how great are feline companions are.
And for the record, every story in here is special, and every cat is magical and special. These are just SOME of the great stories that are in here.
My favorite stories:
-Mahgy (short for Mahogany) was deemed an unadoptable cat, and the woman who adopted her was warned not to. She saw something in her that others didn’t. Mahgy had been returned three times because of her swiping at people. She hissed and growled at the woman who decided to adopt her, and hid under the bed for a couple of weeks when she first brought Mahgy home (obviously coming out for food and her litter box). She would stick her head out and eventually come out all the way in a few weeks, then in two months actually jumped up on the couch with her new owner.
That’s a miracle in and of itself. All cats are miracles of life. But this particular story gets better—there came a point where Mahgy actually saved this woman’s life, by batting her face and chest with its paws, when its owner had fallen asleep—she was practically in a coma, because her blood sugar was way down. Because Mahgy woke her up, she was able to check how low her blood sugar had gotten from her diabetes, and get it back up to where it needed to be. God bless Mahgy.
-Scrooge and Aurelie: Aurelie was a little girl who’d had a severe accident at four, where she’d fallen from a four-story building and was left paralyzed on one side, almost blind, and went mute. When her parents got a cat named Scrooge, he was described as an “antidote” for Aurelie’s depression and loneliness, as she would cuddle and hug the cat all the time. When Scrooge got lost on a vacation, poor Aurelie was devastated to the point of not eating or sleeping, crying every night looking at Scrooge’s empty bed. Her parents were so worried she’d “lost all interest in life.”
But a year later, Scrooge returned after a 600-mile journey, and four-year old Aurelie was in tears of joy. Her parents were ecstatic not just to have their cat back, but to also have Aurelie’s pain be healed. She even started speaking again. Scrooge did need to have his tail amputated due to some of the injuries he sustained from his long and hard trek, but he was back in Aurelie’s loving arms, and described as the perfect cure to Aurelie’s ailments.
-Wally was a cat found in a wall (hence the name) in someone’s house, I think near their bathtub. He survived off of water from the pipes, for forty-five days before rescue. The woman who called to have it investigated thought she was going insane, hearing meows from the wall.
-Oscar saved a toddler from choking to death in his sleep, by breaking the house rule of jumping up on the kitchen counter. He did that and then meowed like crazy to get mom’s attention.
-Puss, 36, is the oldest cat that’s ever lived (at least as of this book. I Googled “oldest cat in the world”, and apparently there is now a cat that has surpassed that, named Cream Puff, at 38).
-Demon was a nickname for a cat that hung around a farm where a teenage boy lived, who jumped on his shoulder and was carried around as the boy did his daily tasks. Then toward evening, when the boy would go into his studio to focus on his art, Demon would show up again at the window ledge, and just sit there watching him. Demon did this daily for a long time. He eventually stopped showing up, which is kind of sad, but it just shows you what a connection someone can have to a cat, even one that’s not their own. I think of all the cats I’ve ever seen or encountered in the outdoors, and any moment between us even if it was just for a second.
-Loretta: Loretta was a cat that hung out in a church in Illinois, in the mid-90s. Pastor Lowell Haugen took a liking to her when he’d found her outside, took her to the vet’s to get her broken leg repaired, and then prepared a little space in his office for her. From then on, she was allowed to roam around the church during services, much to the delight of many of the churchgoers. Unfortunately though, while there are good Christians like them, there are also those who are extremely offended by the silliest things, or who are not all there in the head to the point where they see “evil” in everything. One evening in December, when they had their annual Christmas play, Loretta came up on stage and jumped in the manger. A lot of (normal) people found this adorable, but some got offended and even started making connections between cats and dark magic, calling her “blasphemous”. The pastor, appalled by this, eventually read a passage from a book in church for sermon one morning, telling a story of how Jesus stopped some people from tormenting a cat and how all God’s creatures are special. This seemed to convince the naysayers, and Loretta was back to being the cool cat in church.
-Bounce: In Idaho, Valera Janssen found a kitten in a plastic bag that had been thrown from a car window down a rocky hill toward a river. First of all, FUCK whoever did that, and there is a specific place in hell just for them. Secondly, thank you so much Valera, for rescuing that poor kitten. It went on to be named “Bounce”, and to have a good life with her.
-Frog: Frog was a cat who didn’t meow, he only made a strange croaking, sort of hissing noise. Because of this, when a burglar broke into the house one night and the cat came up to him in the dark making noise, the burglar freaked out thinking it was a snake xD
-It is amazing how different species of animals are ready to take care of each other, even if it’s not necessarily their “own”. There is one chapter in this book about various stories of a grown dog providing milk for kittens, vice-versa with a grown cat doing it for puppies, a cat adopting a mouse (yes), and a cat adopting two wolf cubs.
Sybil: Sybil is a dear lovely little cat who fought off a kidnapper. When her nine-year old owner was walking down the sidewalk to her friend’s house, pushing the carriage that Sybil was curled up in, a car drove up to her and a man came out and tried to grab her. Sybil jumped out of her stroller and leaped at the man’s throat, digging her claws in. Neighbors came out at once and surrounded him until police arrived of course. Turned out he was a sex offender. Then Sybil the hero cat got back in her stroller and curled up again, ready to resume the day as if nothing happened. :D
-Rhoda: In a similar story, Rhoda the cat rescued her owner in the night when the woman was walking back home and got grabbed by someone (there had been several reports of women getting grabbed and beaten by some anonymous person), and Rhoda came and attacked the man. After that, the pattern of scares stopped in that particular city. But the odd thing was that, there was no way for Rhoda to have gotten outside…the doors and windows were all closed and locked. How did Rhoda get out of the house??? It’s a mystery.
-There’s a whole chapter in here about a number of presidents having owned cats. George Washington apparently named his four cats Truelove, Sweetlips, Mopsy, and Madam Moose. One president had a cat named Slippers. And Abe Lincoln apparently took “great delight” in naming kittens in his son’s cat’s litter. The more you know.
-Boris: walked around on his owner’s computer and changed the number of cans of food in the shopping cart from a few, to about 450. The owner hadn’t known until she’d been shocked finding out the total came to about $600. These cats.
-And we end the book with a story about Precious, a cat who survived 9/11. After the Twin Towers were attacked in Manhattan, Precious the white Persian cat had been missing for about two weeks (I think). Her owners, who’d been out of town (which is a miracle because they might’ve been in the way of the damage) mournfully thought she was lost forever under the rubble. But eventually a rescue dog found her and pulled her out. She lost a whole two pounds, and was severely malnourished and dehydrated (I think she’d been living off of condensation, like Wally). She also had burns. Otherwise though, after being brought straight to a veterinarian, she was alright.
June 25, 2016
“Inspirational Tales of Feline Companions”
This book is a must-read for all cat lovers, compassionately compiled by a husband/wife team of recognized authors. Presented without chapter or heading divisions this book offers true life stories of remarkable cats: who made long treks to return home, who saved human lives, who exhibited unique paranormal psychic bonds with their owners--even some that could perform tricks. This is the perfect bedside companion piece—you can pick it up and read as much or as little at a time as you find convenient. There are excellent suggestions for improving the human-feline relationship—your nine lives will respond joyously to these anecdotes and–-who knows—they might even lengthen Your life. At the very least they should increase your enjoyment of life as a cat owner (I mean, as a cat’s Person) and appreciation of your kitty.
June 24, 2016
This book is a must-read for all cat lovers, compassionately compiled by a husband/wife team of recognized authors. Presented without chapter or heading divisions this book offers true life stories of remarkable cats: who made long treks to return home, who saved human lives, who exhibited unique paranormal psychic bonds with their owners--even some that could perform tricks. This is the perfect bedside companion piece—you can pick it up and read as much or as little at a time as you find convenient. There are excellent suggestions for improving the human-feline relationship—your nine lives will respond joyously to these anecdotes and–-who knows—they might even lengthen Your life. At the very least they should increase your enjoyment of life as a cat owner (I mean, as a cat’s Person) and appreciation of your kitty.
June 24, 2016
February 4, 2017
There were some really sweet stories in here. Not going to lie, some of them weren't so much miracles as much as they were more about irresponsible owners, BUT, there were still some heartwarming stories in here. Two of my favorites were one towards the beginning when the cat had gotten lost and the poor little girl was sad and crying every night (so would I, to be honest) but then the cat found its way BACK (happily ever after, besties for life), and then the one where the little cat curled up in a stroller jumped out and protected the little girl (who was on her way to her friend's house) when some man appeared and tried to kidnap her O.o And then it curled back up in the carriage, ready to play dolly again, as if nothing had even happened xDDD Nice kind of book to curl up to at night. :3
October 2, 2014
To all those feline lover's who thought they knew
Although I've been an astute student of cats my whole life, I must say the stories in this fine little book entranced me and added to the knowledge of these mysterious and enigmatic creatures we are honored to share life with; at least those of us that are lucky.
Although I've been an astute student of cats my whole life, I must say the stories in this fine little book entranced me and added to the knowledge of these mysterious and enigmatic creatures we are honored to share life with; at least those of us that are lucky.
October 18, 2009
Inspirational true stories of some miraculous cats.
December 4, 2022
This was a book recommended to me and as such besides the title I had no idea what type of cat stories I may discover in the book. Through a quick flip of the pages I noticed that the stories aren't categorized by the type of stories that they are but just loosely gathered together, provided a title for the anecdote and then a copy of the artwork that decorates the cover for each starting page. Although the Steigers wrote this book there are some stories that have different names attributed at the end of the story while a few of the stories were multiple stories from one person who had already appeared in the book prior.
Although there were no separate sections splitting the book into different categories there was most definitely a different feel to the book after the first part. The first part seemed like your everyday run-of-the-mill cat stories that you may come across in any other cat "miracles" compilations such as the one with Kandy and her brave rattlesnake-fending puss who appeared from a book that I had read in the '90s. Then it slowly went into the paranormal and New Age-ist tropes before ending up in a Let's See What Kitty Can Survive, which can be truly a downer, especially when you know that a doctor of all people would put a birthing carton for her cat outside on a wild mountain slope and under a tree (hey doc, not really a safe place for kittens so no wonder why mom chose to dig a hole under a bush). Unfortunately that wasn't the only person that didn't seem to really think about the cat's safety or connect commonsense with the animals that they were supposedly close with.
Sprinkled throughout the book the reader will find some actual factual information on cats in general and their history along with cat heroes as well as the grim survival stories. For those who truly love cats I wouldn't recommend this book as much while for others who don't mind a bit of the gruesome it may make for a passable read.
Although there were no separate sections splitting the book into different categories there was most definitely a different feel to the book after the first part. The first part seemed like your everyday run-of-the-mill cat stories that you may come across in any other cat "miracles" compilations such as the one with Kandy and her brave rattlesnake-fending puss who appeared from a book that I had read in the '90s. Then it slowly went into the paranormal and New Age-ist tropes before ending up in a Let's See What Kitty Can Survive, which can be truly a downer, especially when you know that a doctor of all people would put a birthing carton for her cat outside on a wild mountain slope and under a tree (hey doc, not really a safe place for kittens so no wonder why mom chose to dig a hole under a bush). Unfortunately that wasn't the only person that didn't seem to really think about the cat's safety or connect commonsense with the animals that they were supposedly close with.
Sprinkled throughout the book the reader will find some actual factual information on cats in general and their history along with cat heroes as well as the grim survival stories. For those who truly love cats I wouldn't recommend this book as much while for others who don't mind a bit of the gruesome it may make for a passable read.
December 31, 2009
Many of the "miracles" in this book are depressing stories of cats surviving being shot with arrows, locked in spaces for weeks without food or water, being hit by cars, surviving 20-story falls, or facing other dangers that could have been avoided if people simply did not leave their cats outdoors unattended.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 11, 2015
I thoroughly enjoyed the first third of the book but then came story after story of horrible things that had happened to cats. I couldn't read any more. It was too painful and I read for pleasure, not pain.
May 9, 2018
It's a good book for cat lovers, but it's only downfall is I feel sad when the cat gets hurt.
November 29, 2009
Okay stories but not as good as Chicken Soup for the pet lovers Soul
January 5, 2012
Cats a truly remarkable animals, I can't wait to have my own fur family.
April 15, 2024
Cats. Cats. I love cats.
July 7, 2024
This was exactly what I expected--a book full of brief stories about cats as told by their owners. It includes stories of love, caring, the connection between the animals and their owners, daring events, and some deep thinking. Each story was only a couple of pages long, so it was quick and easy to read. I wasn't too interested in the philosophy of sharing a telepathic connection with my cat (which was quite an extensive chapter). But my favorite stories were about a cat who came home limping, with what appeared to be broken glass in his paws that turned out to be diamonds! And I had to laugh sympathetically with a family who grieved over the death their cat and had an elaborate funeral service and burial, only to have him come home the next day safe and sound. I also chuckled at the CIA cat who was outfitted with a transmitter in order to capture secrets from Russian spies during the Cold War. After weeks of preparation, they let the cat out to walk by the Russian agents only to have the cat get run over by a car seconds later, on his way to the rendezvous. There were unbelievable instances of talking cats (Mama, want nummies) and cats able to learn tricks. Plus the stories of cats who traveled for hundred or even thousands of miles to find their owners. A nice collection, and I will definitely look for more from this author.
October 25, 2018
Light beach reading, or perhaps for one leg of a road trip. You could certainly finish it in a day. But it's for pet lovers only, and for cat people in particular.
No, not that kind of "cat people."
Steiger and his compatriots have compiled a set of stories about cats braving dangerous and unpleasant circumstances to find their way back home, sometimes over hundreds (even thousands) of miles...stories of cats who saved their owners' lives...stories of cats who've taught people and their other pets to love again, and all that.
There is a fair amount of woo here, but I'm okay with that. I, too, have experienced "psychic" episodes with my cats, although I'm less inclined than the editors and authors to attribute these incidents to specific agencies and pantheons. That special link between cats and their people DOES exist, and these stories will gratify your belief in it.
No, not that kind of "cat people."
Steiger and his compatriots have compiled a set of stories about cats braving dangerous and unpleasant circumstances to find their way back home, sometimes over hundreds (even thousands) of miles...stories of cats who saved their owners' lives...stories of cats who've taught people and their other pets to love again, and all that.
There is a fair amount of woo here, but I'm okay with that. I, too, have experienced "psychic" episodes with my cats, although I'm less inclined than the editors and authors to attribute these incidents to specific agencies and pantheons. That special link between cats and their people DOES exist, and these stories will gratify your belief in it.
May 26, 2017
While I am a huge cat fan and generally love cats and cat stories, I feel like this book was just mediocre. Some of the stories were heart warming and thoughtful while others left me feeling like the writer was just trying to fill pages. I also felt some of the psychic overtones were too much to handle.
This book is a compilation of many stories submitted about cats and their heroism and connections with their families.
This book is a compilation of many stories submitted about cats and their heroism and connections with their families.
September 29, 2019
Miraculous cats and stories
Any cat person will be both inspired and amused by this compilation of wonderful stories. A good read for anyone.
Any cat person will be both inspired and amused by this compilation of wonderful stories. A good read for anyone.
July 18, 2024
Love this book!
February 16, 2016
Meh! Not horrible, it was ok.
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