Lessons in Stalking: Adjusting to Life with Cats

“Dena Harris has written a cat book even a dog would love.”

—Tim Bete, director of the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop and author of In the Beginning… There Were No Diapers

“Captures perfectly the nuances of life with cats!”

—Rita Davis, Editor, Cats & Kittens

“Clever, witty, and insightful, these stories celebrate everything feline and bring smiles of recognition to anyone who loves cats. The author relates the charming antics of her loving, yet manipulative fur-kids, and shows how their c’attitude impacts humans with predictable—and often hilarious—results. Read one by one or devoured like a catnip toy, the stories in Lessons In Stalking are the purr-fect treat! I am a fan.”

—Amy Shojai, nationally known authority on pet care and behavior and author of multiple books including PETiquette and coeditor of Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover’s Soul

“Never has watching someone else own a cat been this much fun.”

—Lisa Allmendinger, Editor, I Love Cats!

“Dena Harris magically captures the humor of sharing our lives with cats in a master storyteller’s style. You catch yourself laughing out loud as you read her words filled with whimsy and wit. She is simply meow-val-lous!”

—Arden Moore, Catnip Editor and author of The Kitten Owner’s Manual

“If laughter is the best medicine, there’s no telling how healthy you’ll be after spending time with this hilarious book! Cat people will find echoes of their own experiences with the feline.

And if you can walk past the refrigerator without a wary glance after reading “The Creature Under the Fridge,” you’re a braver soul than I!”

—Jean Hofve, DVM, holistic medicine practitioner

“This is the relationship ‘how-to’ book for cat owners. I recommend this book to any family or couple thinking of being owned by a cat. Nothing is funnier than the truth!”

—Janet Oquendo, VP Operations, Pet Lover’s Connection, http://www.petloversconnection.com

“In these charming stories, Dena Harris shares with us her happy discoveries of cat nature in its many guises. This is a sweet book, filled with the author’s delight not only in her two young cats, but also in her husband and her home.”

—Marion Lane, Special Projects Editor, ASPCA National Programs Office

“Lessons In Stalking is for all cat lovers! Each story in this collection is a little gem… colored with a multi-faceted understanding of our feline friends…sparkling with the kitty humor that we all recognize and love…and polished with that passionate devotion to cats common to each of us.”

—Ellen Price, Managing Editor, The World of Professional Pet Sitting

“Dena Harris is very funny.”

—Annie, 11 years old, in a letter to the editor of Cats & Kittens magazine

“Despite what you may have heard, cats are funny. They’re comedians, in fact, beginning in kittenhood with acrobatic slapstick.

Adult cats enjoy more subtle forms of humor which, as Dena Harris makes as obvious as a toy mouse in a water bowl, promote us mere humans from lowly food servers in the kitty cafeteria to royal fools in the feline court. Harris is a funny lady with a hilarious take on the life of doting cat parents and their band of furry funsters. We may as well laugh at ourselves—our cats certainly do!”

—Sheila Webster Boneham, Ph.D., Author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting and Owning a Cat