This is a Book About Cats. But it is Not Only About Cats.

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What begins as a collection of true stories about cats becomes something much larger: a book about love, responsibility, companionship, memory and the difficult truth that caring deeply for another living thing always makes us vulnerable to loss.

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Some of these stories are warm. Some are funny. Some are painful. None of the difficult endings has been hidden merely to make the story easier.

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The animals in these pages have personalities. They wander, argue, trust, disappear, return, get into trouble and sometimes change the people who thought they were rescuing them.

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For children, the stories offer lessons about affection, responsibility, attention and loss without pretending that life always supplies perfect endings.

For adults, they may awaken something quieter: memories of the animals once loved, the homes in which they lived, and the surprising amount those small lives taught us about our own.

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To care is to risk.

Yet the risk is part of what makes love worth having.

This book tells those stories with warmth, humour, honesty and love.