Some Very Interesting Cats Perhaps You Weren't Aware Of

By: Doogie Horner

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Synopsis: A completely original and funny new take on cats. Doogie Horner, a writer and illustrator, knows just what it is about cats that so obsesses and delights us—their impenetrable personalities, their self-contained quirkiness, the aura of mystery that makes it seem as if they&’re always up to something that they don&’t want us to know about. So he imagines their secret lives for us, in a way that takes the most surprising and whimsical turns. With full-color illustrations and absurdly funny short stories, Some Very Interesting Cats Perhaps You Weren&’t Aware Of is a gallery of 100 impossible cat characters. Like the Alien cat, Xort, who reports back to his planet: &“Have trained my humans to feed and pet me. They suspect nothing.&” Or the Mountain Climber cat, Snowball, who is planning a perilous route up the North Curtain to Mt. Bookcase. Or Mystico, the Magician cat—no one could figure out how he sawed a dog in half. (The answer was simple: He didn&’t like dogs.) And Hjalmar, the Viking cat, whose motto is &“Pillage. Tuna. Plunder. Nap.&”