The Body Language and Emotion of Cats

by Myrna M. Milani

Book Overview

What does your cat really want when it rubs up against your leg? Is it showing affection or aggression when it sucks a hole in your favorite sweater? Why does it turn up its nose at the cat food you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688067867
• ISBN13: 9780688067861
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This was a real eye-opener for me. It was amazing to read of the complex range of behaviours and emotions you can spot simply from looking at a cat. Barry, my spaniel, and I often watch Maureen, next door's Persian as she walks across the wall at the end of my garden. We have detected disdain as she walks away from us with her tail in the air and back-eye winking, and smug pity as she eyes Barry's vain yapping from behind the French windows, but I am intrigued to learn that cats can feel pessimistic and have a rudimentary concept of the bourgeoisie and slapstick humour.

Intriguing and delightful insight!

Being a cat owner myself, when I found this book I was curious enough for an impulse buy. Once I started reading it however, I found it hard to put down. The detail and explanations of daily behaviors that I saw in my own cats cleared up many questions. Forgive the pun, but my curiosity far from killed my cats, if anything it has brought us closer together. I highly recomend this book to any cat owner who wants to better understand their cat!