Hi Cathie,

Loved this post! I am a certified animal lover. We had 4 cats and one dog until this past year. Sadly, two have passed on.

We still have our 14yr old black cat named Cleo, short for Cleopatra and yes, she does think she is Queen of the Nile! She has a love/hate relationship with our male cat Caesar (go figure). Neither of them have any appreciation for our black and white Lab mix, Shadow, they barely tolerate her :) And yes, she is MY shadow.

Thanks for sharing!

Hi Cathie,

Right now I have Rocky the Wonder Dog who turned 17 and 6 months this past Friday. He really is a wonder dog! Daughter Sarah had Samantha the cat until we lost Samantha to cancer when she was only 9 years old. Rocky still misses her. Rocky and Samantha would play like two little kids and even though he reallly is a wonder dog, Samantha always had the upper hand - or paw. She would mess with him just as Garfield would mess with Odie and Rocky would come back for more. Like I said, he still misses her. So, if dogs and cats can get along, why can't politicians! Okay, we won't go there.

Love your books Cathie and maybe dogs and cats should be running congress! Now there's an idea worth purring over.

Cats and books go together marvelously! If I ever have my own bookstore, there will be a cat wondering or lazing around. There's a local bookstore that has just that and I love finding him when I go there! My oldest is Snickerdoodle, and as you can guess, I was naming after cookies. MiniMe looked just like her mother. BA, well, she's BA. And Rolla got his name because he would roll over at you feet. My mother's cat always tried to move the book out of HER way if my mom reading and not paying attention to her. Her name, by the way, was Moodie, because when she wanted to be louder than her already LOUD purr, she would growl affectionately! ;)

I love both cats and dogs but currently am only owned by one cat. She's a gorgeous tortoiseshell calico which inspired her name "Callie." She's a talker and I definitely talk to her. Her predecessor, Pepper, was a black cat I had for 17 years and was my buddy even though he was high maintenance. Thought I'd go catless for a while after he died but I only lasted 2 weeks--I needed something to come home to. Callie was great therapy for losing him--she still makes me laugh after 7 years! She's an adopted stray and my only regret is I didn't have her as a kitten. I'm a librarian so I obviously love books and the cat/librarian combination is fantastic!! My facebook profile photo shows Callie in her desk chair, sitting right next to mine. Thanks for your great stories Cathie!

Love your books Cathie and you are right in that there seems to be a connection between book lovers and cat lovers. I love to curl up with a good book and my cat (or 3 cats) on my lap!