All you need to know about life with cats (Enough to Make a Cat Laugh - Deric Longden)

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Product:	Enough to Make a Cat Laugh - Deric Longden
Date:	20/07/08 (33 review reads)
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Advantages: Entertaining, heartwarming, touching.

Disadvantages: None

'Enough to Make a Cat Laugh' by Deric Longden is one of the funniest most uplifting books I have ever read. Its author has obviously shared his life with cats and has a perfect understanding of them.

The book is set in the home Deric shares with his blind wife Aileen who can often be witnessed stroking a cardigan in the mistaken belief that it is one of the household cats. The four cats who also inhabit this home are Thermal, Frink, Tigger and the ageing Arthur; each has an individual personality which Deric illustrates with great insight. He has imaginary conversations with them all which are very convincing; he knows exactly what a cat would say if it could talk. He highlights the disdain and impatience a cat can feel for what it considers its inferior owner and the conversations run from the very important to the completely trivial.

The love the author and his wife feel for these animals is genuine and heartfelt; when the cats are ill they are treated with great respect and for this Deric and Aileen are rewarded with a life full of love, entertainment and laughs. Some of the little chats Deric has with each cat will leave you breathless with laughter and you find yourself completely caught up in the trivial day-to-day running of the Longden household.

Deric Longden is a great observer of the human, and animal, condition, and the book is worth a read if only for that, but it is his understanding of what really makes a cat tick that makes this book the joy it is. A must for cat lovers everywhere and, for those who say they don't like cats, it would make a perfect gift to tell them what they are missing.

Summary: A wonderful book for those interested in how humans are really owned by their pets