@kittehboi shares some favorite books.
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Book Review: An Immense World
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Usby Ed Yong I read An Immense World because I am interested in how my animal friends see the world around them. The author, Ed Yong, defines Umwelt as an animal’s lived sensory world, the parts of its surroundings it can detect and that…
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Quote: Joseph Wood Krutch on Cats
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.— Joseph Wood Krutch, The Desert Year In The Desert Year, Joseph Wood Krutch explores the plants, animals, and changing seasons of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Look, the place may seem dry and empty, but it’s packed with…
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Quote: Peter S. Beagle on Cats
I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn The Last Unicorn is about a unicorn who may be…
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Quote: Heinlein on Cats
You don’t own a cat, he is a free citizen. Take dogs; dogs are friendly and fun and loyal. But slaves. Not their fault, they’ve been bred for it. But slavery makes me queasy, even in animals.― Robert A Heinlein, Farham’s Freehold
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Call Me the Breeze
Purrrr, It’s Mr. Breeze here. Since I’m going to be writing for The Anipal Times I thought it would be a fine thing to post an intro. In 2007 when I was a few months old I escaped from my home and got lost. I was begging at random doors for food. Then I met…
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Where To Find Free! Ebooks
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.— W. Somerset Maugham If you love to read ebooks, but your wallet is thin, there are many sites online for free ebooks. Here are just a few. Your local library!Your local library’s web page probably…
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Animals in Shakespeare
Did you know that William Shakespeare (April 1564 – April 23, 1616) was one of the first playwrights to write in English for regular people, rather than in French (the Lingua franca) or Latin? Shakespeare wrote lots of animals into his plays. Here are just a few. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is…
