this is the worst book ive ever read, the anthropomorphising is unbelievably wild, bordering on abusive. the author doesnt love her cats like she thinks she does, or else she wouldn’t have neglected their health so much and let her cats become morbidly obese from feeding them food unhealthy for cats such as ice cream and tinned olives, and then refusing to put them on a diet because “there was no point in extending cleo’s life if he wouldn’t be able to indulge in the food he loved so much”. or, she wouldn’t have refused to brush their coats and allow them to become matted.

she obviously just wanted to live vicariously through her cats, as stated early on in the book when she dreamed of being a cat owned by a person like her. author also called stray cats “street urchins”, clearly feeling some sort of moral superiority over her pedigree cats. the book did eventually improve after she began to love the stray cats, but still frustrating with the way she refused to let her cat be put to sleep despite having no quality of life. don’t even get me started on how the author believed she deprived her cat from motherhood; “without a thought to the cruelty involved in ignoring her own needs and desires, i sentenced her to a life of childlessness.“ WHAT.

this memoir is more a diary of neglect than anything else. only reason why i didnt dnf is because i paid good money on this stupid book, at the expense of my blood pressure. the front cover was cute so of course i was gonna buy. im a fool. what is this

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