Cat Care Guides from the 1980’s

During a recent bout of deep cleaning I found the two cat care guides pictured above at the bottom of a drawer. Your Kitten’s First Year was published by Purina in 1982. Pat Widmer’s Cat Book has a publication date of 1981. I got both books when I got my first cat Feebee in 1984.

The advice presented in both book is almost equally and atrociously bad, and thankfully, we’ve come a long way over the last 40 years in understanding cats.

The Purina guide fails miserably when it comes to nutrition,...