Entertaining Your Indoor Cat: 50 Fun and Inventive Amusements for Your Cat

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Title: Entertaining Your Indoor Cat: 50 Fun and Inventive Amusements for Your Cat
Author: Kevin Kelly
Illustrator: Wendy Crowell
Publisher: Sellers Publishing
Year: 2008
125 pages

A cute compendium of easy-to-build toys and easy-to-engage-in activities for exercising and entertaining indoor cats. Other than referring to the Tunnel of Love before it had been described, the content was reasonably well organized. The tone is affectionate. A couple of activities seem destined to suggest to cats that it's okay to kil your house plants, but hey, de gustibus non est disputandum, right? Also, the author appears to live in a neighborhood without free range dogs; I wouldn't walk my cats on a lead or stake them out without sitting right there.

I note two important missing activities, and a missing variant on some described in the book. 1, Missing activity 1: For maximum cat activity, buy it a pet cat. Missing activity 2: There are no activities that involve prancing about while wearing the cat on your head, juicing its face in your cupped hand, or stretching it along your arm and pretending it's a semi-automatic (Rambo Among the House Plants). 2. Variant: Many of the activities can be enhanced with the "sniffing your butt" option. Any stuffed mouse, hand puppet, laser beam, etc. can approach the cat from the rear. Paired with your cry of "Oh, no! It's sniffing your butt!" this activity adds hours of fun to any game. Thank you. Mr. Meow and I will be here all week.