Sasha's Tail: Lessons from a Life With Cats

By Jacqueline Damian

A personal narrative begins with the author's introduction to Sasha, a male stray Alpha male cat who enters and takes over the household, and continues with the addition of two more cats and anecdotes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393037312
• ISBN13: 9780393037319
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!

Wonderful, wonderful book! I stumbled across this book recently when I was browsing in our public library. I am owned by six cats, and found myself saying YES! my cats do that! A must read for cat lovers! What a delight!

very well-written

Well, if you're not a cat person, you won't be interested, but I'd say even the most casual cat person would find this enjoyable. Yes, we've seen it before -- jaunts through the minds of cats and people, tales that relate intelligence and make one wonder what all goes on in the mind of a cat. Yes, we've seen it before -- but we still enjoy it! Especially when the writing is of as high a quality as it is in this pleasant volume.Here you'll get to meet the author's cats, especially the fascinating Sasha. The book is very well written (dare I say literary?) and ranges from the cat decision-making process, to the way her cats respond to human voice, to the cat hierarchy. I especially enjoyed the section where she wrote about the cats raising their tails to express greeting when they neared her, or she called their names. I was really able to picture Sasha's silky, sashaying tail in all its expressiveness.

I enjoyed it

Well, if you're not a cat person, you won't be interested, but I'd say even the most casual cat person would find this enjoyable. Yes, we've seen it before -- jaunts through the minds of cats and people, tales that relate intelligence and make one wonder what all goes on in the mind of a cat. Yes, we've seen it before -- but we still enjoy it! Especially when the writing is of as high a quality as it is in this pleasant volume.Here you'll get to meet the author's cats, especially the fascinating Sasha. The book is very well written (dare I say literary?) and ranges from the cat decision-making process, to the way her cats respond to human voice, to the cat hierarchy. I especially enjoyed the section where she wrote about the cats raising their tails to express greeting when they neared her, or she called their names. I was really able to picture Sasha's silky, sashaying tail.