Cat Calls: Wonderful Stories and Practical Advice from a Veteran Cat Sitter

CatChannel.com columnist Adlon teams up with Cat Fancy editor Logan in this lively book about Adlon's 35-year career as a cat sitter. Adlon, who first found a lost kitten at age nine, volunteered for the Fund for Animal and in 1974, opened the Cat Cottage%E2%80%94a Manhattan boutique for cats and cat lovers, where her customers included John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Over the years, clients would ask her to board their cats which proved fine for Logan, but not necessarily for the cats. Since taking care of them in their own homes was a happier solution, Adlon began making house calls while the cats' owners were away, morphing into the eponymous cat sitter. With amusing anecdotes and clever illustrations, this useful guidebook offers tips on how to care for happy, healthy cats while discouraging them from wrecking the furniture, and other anti-social behavior. (Sept.)