CAT FACTS: THE PET PARENTS A-to-Z HOME CARE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Kitten to Adult, Disease & Prevention, Cat Behavior Veterinary Care, First Aid, Holistic Medicine

by Amy Shojai

THE PERFECT CAT BOOK! More than 86 million pet cats today are kept in forty-five million U.S. households. Now, from one of the most trusted cat care authors of the last twenty-five years comes the definitive reference for adopting, keeping, and maintaining a healthy, happy cat. CAT FACTS: The Pet Parent's A-to-Z Home Care Encyclopedia is designed to answer all your questions. How do I choose the right cat? What holistic help and preventive care should I give? Why do cats act the way they do, and what cat behavior indicates illness? What constitutes an emergency, and how/when can I safely treat my cat with home care and first aid? Inside you'll find: An alphabetical A-to-Z listing, with more than 200 entries, covering everything from abscesses and hairballs to whiskers and zoonosis Charts that list symptoms for a particular condition, the corresponding home care or first aid, the comparative veterinarian and holistic treatments, and preventive advice A poison first aid chart to save your cat's life A symptoms/conditions table that helps you identify what ailments might be bothering your cat Breed-At-A-Glance chart to compare personality, looks, care challenges and other issues when choosing your pedigreed cat A comprehensive, easy-to-use index that makes quick reference a snap Contact information for dozens of cat organizations and veterinary resources Accessible, yet comprehensive, CAT FACTS can be used with ease and trust. And doesn't your cat deserve the very best?

Genres: Nonfiction, Cats, Pets, Animals

546 pages, Paperback

Published December 29, 2015

About the author

Amy Shojai has been reinventing herself for years. She writes THRILLERS WITH BITE! in her debut thriller LOST AND FOUND that features a service dog, hero cat, an animal behaviorist named September Day, and assorted mayhem. The sequel HIDE AND SEEK continues the story with terror from the past revisiting the heroine. The next book in the series, SHOW AND TELL brings the story full circle. The 4th title FIGHT OR FLIGHT introduces some new characters and challenges. And book #5 HIT AND RUN answers many questions about September's past.

Amy's a certified animal behavior consultant, and the award-winning author of 35+ best-selling pet books that cover furry babies to old-fogies, first aid to natural healing, and behavior/training to Chicken Soup-icity. She created the puppies.about.com site and was the cat behavior expert at cats.About.com. Amy has been featured as an expert in hundreds of print venues including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reader's Digest, and Family Circle, as well as national radio and television networks such as CNN, Animal Planet's DOGS 101 and CATS 101. She brings her unique pet-centric viewpoint to her Bling, Bitches & Blood Blog, public appearances.

Reviews

[Karen-Leigh]

Skimmed this as it is an encyclopedia of symptoms and behaviours and instructions for care. I touched on all the points of interest to me about my own healthy cat. This will come in handy for future problems.

[Mia Davis]

I am planning to get a cat and the information here was quite useful. But I realize how important it is to clearly understand that this is a big responsibility. For this purpose, I have already studied enough information about different breeds of cats and even found Revolution Plus Without Vet Prescription, so I am sure that in case of need, my cat will be able to get quality help and feel good.

[Robin Morgan]

I read this book via a KINDLE Unlimited download.

Unfortunately my dear OH and I have no children and due to where we live, we’re not allowed to have any dogs. So instead, we had two fur cat babies. I knew enough that in adopting a cat you don’t pick the cat, you have the cat pick you. I need that you can’t adopt one because of how cute it looks, because afterwards they might become aloof in their interactions with you. But by allowing yourself to see how it interacts with you, by bumping its head against your hand telling you it wants to be scratch the cat’s telling you to pick it. Cats have a unique ability of sensing who they like.

Just like a parent being interested in taking care of their child, us cat lovers are interested in making sure that our small fur children are taken care of and remain healthy. If there was ever a “bible” in helping us meet that goal, this book would be that “bible” as it basically covers the soup to nuts with the information it provides in a very organized manner.

Parents know when their child behaves a certain way they’re trying to tell us something, the same hold true when it comes to cats, we just need to know what each kind of behavior might mean. At times we might overreact when something appears to be wrong with our cats, when in fact it’s actually a nothing with a nothing. We need to know about things we can do to prevent things from happening to them, and if there’s any holistic way in dealing with the situation at hand.

With this type of information and more this book should be in the library of every cat lover so they can adequately take care of the ones in their family which is why it has gotten 5 STARS from this reviewer and the parent of the two fur children in our family.