Banjo's Book Recommendations and Mousie Recon -- "Tiptop Cat" by C. Roger Mader

I know why Daddy Tim brought me this book. He thinks I am too nervous lately. Well how would you feel living with an ever growing ball of flab and orange fur who is always trying to eat your food and stares at you during your most private moments? 
Nearly a year ago, I recommended “Lost Cat” by this human. I think I like this more. This is the story of a cat (who doesn’t have a name—grr! I will call him Slips for reasons that become apparent).  Slips gets adopted by a nice lady. Slips likes his new home…especially the balcony! He can walk out on it and get access to the roof.
The balcony and the roof are HIS domain…I wish I had a balcony—or somewhere that Bubble couldn’t follow me.
One day he sees a pigeon on the balcony and that makes Slips mad! Or, it awakens the jungle cat in him.  He stalks that pigeon…and he JUMPS! But he misses and he falls…and falls…and falls—I was scared at this point…but he falls through an awning (Daddy Tim gave me that word, don’t know what it is) and a man catches him. Slips is OK, but he’s scared…especially of the balcony. But one day, he sees a crow out on his balcony. The jungle cat is awakened again,  and Slips scares that bird away! Then he feels safe to return to his rooftop.


I like this book very much even if Daddy Tim was being a Nose to bring it home to me. I give Slips’s story five treats! Our highest honor. I like the story and I love the pictures. C Roger Mader really knows his cats. I think little humans who are scared of anything would benefit from reading Slips’s story!
Blue Spongy Ball has been very tasty lately. His smug smile has incited me to whack him across the room, bat him around, and lay on his face. I think he’s hiding something behind that grin. Any Mousie who is THAT happy is hiding something. I’m going to go see if I can squash it out of him.