Status Updates From Literary Cats

In the ten years since 2007, more than 5,400 books about cats were published in Japan...more than were published about Buddhism, baseball ... or sake

Hrabel " paints a vivid and amusing picture of the mild chaos of five cats in the same house, especially of meshugge Stunts, or the 'crazy hour' that most cat owners will recognise, that period in every day when curry bodies fly around the room chasing each other, or any remotely mobile inanimate object."

Hemingway "was once given a six-toed cat by a ship's captain which he christened Snow White. To this day, descendants of Snow White, each with an extra toe, live at Hemingway's former home in Florida

These days, vets discourage us from giving cats milk to drink, but - like feeding bread to ducks- humans have long ignored this advice, largely because the recipients seem to like it so much.

This is making my tbr significantly longer 😸