Product Description

Help! Your feisty furball is into EVERYTHING! The American Veterinary Medical Association says that there are 64 million cat owners in the United States, and whether you share your home with a feline friend or a feline felon depends on how your cat spends the first year of its life.

Award-winning pet journalist Arden Moore offers hundreds of practical tips to help you raise an indoor cat without losing your sanity, and she presents them in a fun question-and-answer style. Includes advice from leading veterinarians, animal behaviorists, and shelter directors, plus success stories from cat owners.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #520694 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review

“Useful for rookies and experienced cat veterans alike, this book addresses numerous kitten care issues in a question-and-answer format.” – Cats & Kittens magazine

“Find the solutions to all your kitten quandaries in a question-and-answer format…Arden Moore provides practical tips on topics such as controlling fleas, transporting a kitten, dealing with allergies and making peace between your kitten and other family pets.” – Cat Fancy magazine

From the Inside Flap
PREVENT: clawing, scratching, yowling, rough play, biting, toe pouncing, fearfulness, finicky eating, bathing battles, toilet paper confetti, travel traumas & more!

INCLUDES: instructions for making cat-pleasing toys and furniture; easy recipes for nutritious cat cuisine; and suggestions for alternative health care treatments

PLUS: advice from veterinarians, safety tips & information on kitty-proofing your home

From the Back Cover
Help! My Kitten is into EVERYTHING!

Whether you share your home with a feline friend or a feline felon depends on your kitten's experiences during its crucial first year your sanity by using these tried-and-true, commonsense techniques. And you'll get a kick out of the Kitty Capers - real-life adventures of kittens and their owners.

"In a puff-fect world, all cats would have the kind of relationship that Arden Moore shares with her three lucky felines. Paws up to Arden, Little Guy, Murphy, and Callie for showing us what is possible." (Nancy Petersen, Issues Specialist, The Humane Society of the United States)

Customer Reviews

Good, but a bit over the top...
There is some very valuable advice on how to deal with your kitten. I immediately stopped playing the foot under the covers game with my kitten in order to discourage her from attacking my toes. There are sensible suggestions on how to say "no" to your kitten. And I'm anticipating a move in the next few months, and I think Moore's suggestion to rub a wet towel on your kitten and then rub the towel on the walls of the new house, so that she'll recognize her own scent, will work. On the other hand Moore thinks you ought to keep a first aid kit for one cat that would easily fill the needs of a family of five, she suggests cutting the handles off of paper bags so that kitty won't get herself strangled in them, she suggests making your own scratching post, and gives advice on how to make several toys that pretty much amount to ones you can buy or glorified versions of regular items (socks, a belt from an old robe) that are sure to bring out kitty playfulness without the elaborate Martha Stewart like construction. I was also confused by some of the eating strictures. One table says kittens can't eat dry food until 12 weeks, but the text has kittens eating dry food much earlier. Moore seems to make light of lactose intolerance, and among her kitty treats includes scrambled eggs with margarine and cottage cheese!!! And her kitty chowder seems more like a human treat to me. Counterpointing the interesting suggestion to give your kitten a small piece of raw tuna as an alternative or addition to brushing are chapters on command training, new age therapies and kitty massage. This is fine and cuddly, though I doubt I'll teach my kitten to do much more than sit, if that, and I'm not taking her for acupuncture. This primer is written not so much by a cat lover as a cat fanatic. (Though I admit that if you're going to be a fanatic, it may as well be of cats.) Still I prefer the more practical down to earth advice of Cats for Dummies, than some of the outlandish, occasionally preposterous, cat adulation techniques of the Kitten Owner's manual. Then again, I am going to try the kitty massage.

A lifesaver
Arden Moore's "The Kitten Owner's Manual" is a highly informative, clear and often entertaining answer book THAT ACTUALLY works. So often I have turned to a pet book to help me care for my new kitten and I've come away confused and at a lost -- for ideas and a few bucks. But with this book, my questions were answered about my kitten's destructive habits, its finicky diet and its nervous behavior whenever strangers come into the home. It's a simple and very helpful book that gave me the solutions I needed.

This covers it all for Cat Lovers!
I learned more than I ever thought possible regarding the care of cats. A terrific book, and my only regret is that it was not available some sixty years ago when I started my love affair with cats. I am doubly impressed that the Humane Society of the Unted States has endorsed this terrific owners manual. My hats off to Arden Moore along with thanks for writing such an informative book for all cat owners.