Review: Purr-fect!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2012
Written from the viewpoint of a cat, "The Cat Manual" covers topics such as "Displays of Human Affection", "Helping Humans", "Reading", "Forbidden Rooms", "The Clock", "Thunderstorms", "Computers", "The Vacuum Cleaner", "The Vet", "Medications", and much more.While there have been many books about cats, "The Cat Manual" is one of the best and funniest books I've read on the subject.  Author Michael Ray Taylor (who clearly knows a thing or two about cats) had me laughing from the introduction as he explained how he found the manuscript written entirely in "Cat" and how it took him weeks to translate it.  The book got even funnier from there.  The manual is written as if a cat was writing it for other cats - nice touch.  There were so many humorous bits in this book I can't possibly mention them all in this review.  The ones that made me laugh the most (and maybe suspect my cats might have written a chapter or two) include "Waking the Human" (my cat loves to lick me awake); "Computers" (I love the cat's take on the mouse and laptop); "Helping Humans" (my cat loves to "help" me carry the laundry upstairs by jumping into the basket); "Tricks" (playing them on humans).  These are just a few -really I enjoyed everything in the book.  Taylor seems to have covered just about every quirk that cats have - and a few I didn't know about!  Taylor does touch on the inevitable loss of the cat in a funny and sensitive way - nicely done."The Cat Manual" is a fun look at the way cats act and why they act that way.