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This is a picture of Priscilla, who lived to be an old lady cat of 19 1/2 and passed away on July 21, 2008. As Dave put it the next day, she was a great cat. I was privileged to adopt her in 1994, when her first family moved overseas and decided they couldn’t take her along. I don’t know if there’s an afterlife or a real “Rainbow Bridge” or any of that. But love lives on, and so I would like to dedicate this site to Priscilla and my first two cats, Hillary and Rabbit.
Like most blogs, this one includes random thoughts and observations, but its primary purpose is to provide book reviews for animal lovers. Please feel free to add comments or make suggestions of books that are animal-friendly.
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This is a picture of Priscilla, who lived to be an old lady cat of 19 1/2 and passed away on July 21, 2008. As Dave put it the next day, she was a great cat. I was privileged to adopt her in 1994, when her first family moved overseas and decided they couldn’t take her along. I don’t know if there’s an afterlife or a real “Rainbow Bridge” or any of that. But love lives on, and so I would like to dedicate this site to Priscilla and my first two cats, Hillary and Rabbit.
Like most blogs, this one includes random thoughts and observations, but its primary purpose is to provide book reviews for animal lovers. Please feel free to add comments or make suggestions of books that are animal-friendly.
Just wondering if you wanted any submissions for this . . . also, if you cared about “Does the cat die?”
I chose the name of the blog based in part on the alliteration. I am, in fact, a cat owner, and my intent here is to include all animals. So I certainly do care about whether the cat dies!
As for submissions, I hadn’t really thought about that. I’m certainly open to it, but let me think about how I might want to actually execute it. Maybe an “open thread” in which other people could post reviews would work. Let me know if you have any thoughts on this.
Thanks for the comment, by the way!
I thought of you twice in recent days, in addition to your e-mail. First, Friday night, watching The Black Dahlia, then yesterday when I spent four hours watching The Andromeda Strain. Both times I heard a little voice in my head say, “This movie is NOT SAFE for bird lovers!”
I happened upon your site and wanted to tell you I’m an instant fan. You had me at “Does the Dog Die.” I am a (somewhat fanatical) animal lover and book reviewer. When I wrote a review for City of Thieves I had to include a paragraph warning people not to read a few particular pages regarding dogs. They were so horrifying I still can’t get the images out of my mind and I wanted to spare other animal lovers the same trauma.
P.S. Priscilla was a lovely girl.
Thanks for the kind words, Gustines. You’re just the type of person I was hoping would find this blog. I’ve been away and have not been able to post many updates lately, but tomorrow I’ll begin catching up, starting with a book that I recommend and that has an protagonist who is devoted to her pets.