Dr. Cookie's Guide

""Happiness is living with cats,"" writes veterinarian and pet behavior specialist Stephanie Schwartz. To ensure readers will agree, she provides a wealth of information designed to facilitate feline-human cohabitation. Dr. Cookie's Guide to Living Happily Ever After with Your Cat begins with hints about interpreting a cat's tail, progresses to ""hallucinatory"" play (when a cat races about a room, chasing something invisible to its owners), kitten socialization, destructive behaviors, nutrition and grooming matters, and ends with mourning the loss of a beloved cat. Anecdotes illustrate Schwartz's reasonable and straightforward advice. 16 inexpert, almost creepy, drawings.