Love and Cats
07/16/2013
Driving along listening to NPR today, I heard an interview with author Peter Trachtenberg discussing his book “Another Insane Devotion - On the Love of Cats and Persons” (Talk of Iowa link). He discusses the love of his cat and his distress when she is lost while he is out of town (and apparently makes many correlations with his ex-wife and pending divorce at the time—probably not recommended for children…) I have not read the book, but the interview was intriguing, especially the part where he asked the petsitter to go outside calling the cat’s name in a falsetto voice “Biscuit, Biscuit, Biscuit.” I have a more generic cat call in a similar voice that my kids call a yodel, “kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty,” that I developed over many years in my desert childhood, especially when the coyotes were acting up!
Love for animals is difficult to explain at times, but undeniable.
link to NY Times review:
ANOTHER INSANE DEVOTION
On the Love of Cats and Persons
By Peter Trachtenberg