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They were gods in Egypt. Some two millenniums before the birth of Christ, cats were buried with the pomp of pharaohs, hi bronze coffins and mausoleums complete with mummified mice for delectation hi the afterlife. A drastic decline from this lordly state occurred when the early Christian church decided that the feline was a pagan minion of Satan intimately connected to wicked deeds of darkness. In pictures of the Last Supper, for example, the "bad cat" of Christendom sits at Judas' feet...
Tracing the radical fluctuations of feline popularity over the centuries is only one of the innumerable delights that Author Muriel Beadle brings to her consistently fascinating book. Throughout, The Cat purrs with literary amusement and the kind of rousing curiosity that allegedly led its subject to a bad end and this book to a happy...
...Beadle confirms some cat lore and usefully corrects certain misconceptions. Every cat owner knows cats can speak volumes-especially at night on back fences. Few would guess that in human terms this vocalization works out to nine consonants, five vowel sounds, two diphthongs and an umlaut (as in the German...
Everyone knows the cat has a libidinous reputation. Phrases like "tomcatting around" and "cat houses" are part of the language. Few may know that cats can copulate eight times in 20 minutes, which helps to account for the 13 million kittens born in the U.S. every year. The final phase of intercourse is quite painful to the female. In the cat family, the release of the eggs for fertilization requires a triggering mechanism. The device is supplied by prickly spines that cover the penis and rake out the female on its withdrawal. A piercing cry invariably and understandably follows...