Paul Corey (1903–1992)
Autor(a) de Do Cats Think?: Notes of a Cat-Watcher
About the Author
Paul Corey teaches in the religious studies department at McMaster University.
Obras por Paul Corey
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Corey, Paul Frederick
- Data de nascimento
- 1903-07-08
- Data de falecimento
- 1992-12-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- United States of America
- Local de nascimento
- Shelby County, Iowa, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Sonoma, California, USA
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 222
- Popularidade
- #100,929
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 10
- ISBN
- 13
- Línguas
- 1
But! all the stuff in the middle is fairly good reading, if you like cats. The author most certainly did not like cats at first, especially since the first cat he lived with as an adult, was an unspayed female who spent weeks yowling and shrieking around the house when in heat. He also complains about tomcats making a stink, but at the same time seems to be proud of how far they roam and of evidence that they won battles. These first few chapters are likewise a bit difficult reading, since in his early years of keeping cats (after one unexpectedly won his heart) most people didn’t neutered their cats, or keep them indoors, so excess kittens and short lives ending abruptly, abounded. Don’t read if you want to know all the unfortunate and awful things that can happen to cats. So they had quite a few cats that went through rough times, before they started getting their cats fixed. Even then they still roamed, so there’s a lot about their cats’ hunting, and prey they brought home. There's some really remarkable incidents about cats apparently understanding what people were talking about, of learning the “house rules”, of passing the information on to other cats that joined them. There’s one female cat that seemed to prefer pale ginger toms for her mates. There’s stories about cats who visit all the neighbors for extra meals, about cats with serious illness or injury (they don’t always survive), one about a cat who learned to pose for photographs and would sit still until the flash went off. There’s stories of cats recognizing the dangers of snakes, and dealing with incursions from civets into the house, and warding off rivals until they suddenly became friends, and so much more. It’s a good read, but again, you have to remember when it was written, and take a lot with a grain of salt, and likewise be able to stomach some suffering. Also, the guy and his wife thought nothing of smacking their cats to teach them to stay off the counters, leave human food alone, not crawl into the baby’s crib, etc. Not admirable.… (mais)