When we heard today is National Love Your Pet Day (isn’t that every day?), these books popped to mind: Comet’s Tale: How the Dog I Rescued Saved My Life by Steven D. Wolf: This is a story about a friendship between two former winners, both a little down on their luck, who together stage aContinue reading
They love us unconditionally, teach us things about emotions and love that other humans just can’t. Sometimes they poop on the living room carpet. Ruined carpets aside, we honor our furred and feathered friends with this month’s Lucky Stars e-books for $2.99 or less! Kitty Cornered by Bob Tarte: Bob Tarte had his first encounterContinue reading
Agnes, Maynard, Frannie, Tina and Moobie aren’t just five of the feline stars from Bob Tarte‘s new book Kitty Cornered – they are also advice cats on Twitter, each one taking a turn to dole out wisdom on their weekly #Ask6Cats chat. The Kitty is in. Today we share some of the Kitties’ favorite tweets fromContinue reading
Ten Catterrific Songs By Bob Tarte For 20 years I somehow managed to crank out a world music review column for The Beat magazine, and I rarely think about it now without also thinking about our pets. My first book, Enslaved by Ducks, got its start in the little essays about our critters that frequentlyContinue reading
Ask Six Cats by Bob Tarte’s kitties Kitty comrades, are you having problems dealing with those people who think they own the place? Don’t ask just one fellow cat for advice. Ask the six cats that star in Bob Tarte’s book, Kitty Cornered. Let Frannie, Agnes, Moobie, Maynard, Tina, and Lucy bat around yourContinue reading
Most cat lovers admit to having complicated feline friends. By “complicated,” I mean that your favorite pet manages to rearrange your life to run around his precise schedule (most active at 2 am), his particular eating habits (we won’t discuss those here), his way of being held or handled, or even how he’s spoken to.Continue reading