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    How to Live With A Calculating Cat
    How to Live With A Calculating Cat
    How to Live With A Calculating Cat
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    How to Live With A Calculating Cat

    By Eric Gurney

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    Cats are a proud lot. The pages of history overflow with their heroic deeds. They’re aloof, independent…calculating, clever little thinkers who usually wind up owning their owners. You can’t outwit them…but at least you can learn to hold your own. Eric Gurney tells you how in this most entertaining animal book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHauraki Publishing
    Release dateMar 28, 2016
    ISBN9781786258977
    How to Live With A Calculating Cat
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    Eric Gurney

    ERIC GURNEY (1910-1992) was a Canadian-American cartoonist and illustrator. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he grew up in Toronto, where he began a career as a commercial artist. In 1938 he emigrated to the USA to work with The Walt Disney Company, where he was a story writer and collaborated on several classic Disney films. Turning freelance in 1948, he did cartoon illustrations for magazines and advertising campaigns, notably for the Ethyl Corporation. Gurney is best known for his humorous illustrations in books for children and adults. He illustrated Punctured Poems (1971) by Richard Armour; How to Live with a Neurotic Dog (1960) (text by Stephen Baker); How to Live with a Calculating Cat (1962) (text by William Nettleton); an edition of Sportsmanlike Driving (1965), a textbook published by the American Automobile Association; and many other titles, whose total sales number in the millions. He received the National Cartoonists Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 1961 and 1971 for his work.

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      This is a fun book and quick and easy read for any cat lover. The book was originally published in 1962. The humor is dated by today's standards, but it is still quite enjoyable.

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    How to Live With A Calculating Cat - Eric Gurney

    This edition is published by PICKLE PARTNERS PUBLISHING—www.pp-publishing.com

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    Text originally published in 1962 under the same title.

    © Pickle Partners Publishing 2016, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

    Publisher’s Note

    Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

    We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

    HOW TO LIVE WITH A CALCULATING CAT

    BY

    ERIC GURNEY

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS 7

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8

    DEDICATION 9

    1—THE CALCULATING CAT IN HISTORY 11

    2—CATS AND THEIR FAMILY LIFE 27

    3—SO NOW YOU OWN A CAT? 50

    4—CARE AND GROOMING OF CATS 60

    5—CAT LOVERS AND CAT HATERS 87

    6—CATS AND OTHER ANIMALS 102

    7—CAT QUIRKS 110

    8—SOME VERY FAMOUS CALCULATING CATS 118

    REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 128

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    Acknowledgement to William Nettleton for his text

    DEDICATION

    1—THE CALCULATING CAT IN HISTORY

    Webster defines a cat as a carnivorous mammal long domesticated and kept by man as a pet or for catching rats and mice.

    Having a cat is quite simple today. But it was not always so. It may be assumed that these first attempts to domesticate the cat, though entirely satisfactory from the cat’s point of view, were not completely successful from man’s. Therefore, it is only fitting that we pay a silent moment of tribute to those brave men and women of the past.

    Yes, prehistoric man had to learn a lot about cats, and the first thing he found out was that there were a good many different kinds of cats...mostly

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