Catification
Designing a Happy and Stylish Home for Your Cat (And You!)
(Sprache: Englisch)
A New York Times bestseller! The star of Animal Planet s hit television series My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, shows cat owners everywhere how to make their homes both cat-friendly and chic.
Cat owners know the struggles...
Cat owners know the struggles...
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A New York Times bestseller! The star of Animal Planet s hit television series My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, shows cat owners everywhere how to make their homes both cat-friendly and chic.Cat owners know the struggles of creating living spaces that are both functional and stylish for owner and cat. Don t just go to your local pet shop and adorn your home with unattractive cat towers and kitty beds. In Catification, Jackson Galaxy, the star of Animal Planet s My Cat from Hell, and Kate Benjamin, founder of a popular cat design website, walk readers through a step-by-step process of designing an attractive home that is also an optimal environment for cats.
This gorgeously designed, full-color book includes more than twenty fun DIY projects, from kitty beds and litter boxes to catios (cat patios) that will be sure to make readers and their cats purr in approval.
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It s a great time to be the cat guy.
When I started out my life working with animals, around 1993, it was at a shelter in Boulder, Colorado. Within weeks of realizing that the cats had something they wanted to tell me, the other staff members seemed to smell a cat person in their presence. They immediately christened me Catboy, and put me on the job of decoding everything about cats for everybody. Good thing I was up for the challenge.
Back then, the sense of cats being other from humans was clearly prevalent. I mean, if shelter workers were scratching their heads about cat behavior, imagine what the rest of the world was thinking (or not). As a matter of fact, as my knowledge base grew and I refined my techniques, I branched out to other shelters to find the same desperately inquisitive population. You will never find a more compassionate lot than those who dedicate their lives to caring for homeless animals. That said, we were in dire straits. We were labeling as unadoptable cats who were acting out from a place that not enough people understood. In the reality of that time, unadoptable meant euthanized. If that didn t give Catboy a sense of urgency, nothing would.
As I left the shelter to pursue private practice, I was constantly up against a seemingly unsolvable puzzle: guardians cared enough to hire me instead of getting rid of the cat, and that was fantastic; at the same time, however, the suggestion that problems could be remedied by adding more litter boxes, toys, and trees (and, of course, not hiding them in the basement) was a distinctly unwelcome one. We wanted the problem gone, but the solution was aesthetically painful to most. Almost all of the guardians I came in contact with were panicked that if I had my way, I would turn their home into the crazy cat lady house.
Of course, that sense of aesthetic panic on the part of my clients panicked me. It wasn t just a matter of not wanting a litter box in the
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living room; it symbolized a lack of true empathy toward, and an investment in, love for cats. We could easily bear the notion of spreading dog blankets, toys, dishes, beds and stinky rawhides around our house. We wouldn t ask to hide our dogs existence any more than we would try to hide our children. In the meantime, cats, and the smallest perceptible evidence that they actually lived in our homes, rode squarely in the back of the domestic bus.
In the ensuing twenty years, I ve been privileged to witness the cat renaissance; those that were considered other alien, aloof, more furniture than family are enjoying a surge in popularity like no other time in their domesticated history. We hungrily devour cat memes, watch cat videos by the tens of millions (even creating celebrities out of those video cats) and, thankfully for those of us in the rescue community, adopt them in record numbers. The animal that for tens of thousands of years enjoyed a great reputation as a working animal controlling rodents on farms, for instance has become a bona fide companion.
A truly amazing bonus to being seen as a companion is that under the surface we are asking not only what we can do for cats to make their lives better, but we are acknowledging what they do for us. Cats are now seen by millions as supportive family members, bearers of unconditional love. We better understand that cats don t show love and devotion like dogs do, and so we invest in the time needed to learn a new language.
You may think of Catfication as a design book; it is so much more than that. In the same way that our refusal to add litter boxes symbolized cat shame, what you will see in this book symbolizes cat love. It doesn t illustrate what lengths those crazy cat peopleR
In the ensuing twenty years, I ve been privileged to witness the cat renaissance; those that were considered other alien, aloof, more furniture than family are enjoying a surge in popularity like no other time in their domesticated history. We hungrily devour cat memes, watch cat videos by the tens of millions (even creating celebrities out of those video cats) and, thankfully for those of us in the rescue community, adopt them in record numbers. The animal that for tens of thousands of years enjoyed a great reputation as a working animal controlling rodents on farms, for instance has become a bona fide companion.
A truly amazing bonus to being seen as a companion is that under the surface we are asking not only what we can do for cats to make their lives better, but we are acknowledging what they do for us. Cats are now seen by millions as supportive family members, bearers of unconditional love. We better understand that cats don t show love and devotion like dogs do, and so we invest in the time needed to learn a new language.
You may think of Catfication as a design book; it is so much more than that. In the same way that our refusal to add litter boxes symbolized cat shame, what you will see in this book symbolizes cat love. It doesn t illustrate what lengths those crazy cat peopleR
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Autoren-Porträt von Jackson Galaxy, Kate Benjamin
Jackson Galaxy is a cat behaviorist and the host of Animal Planet s hit show My Cat from Hell. He is also the author of Cat Daddy: What the World s Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean.Kate Benjamin is the founder of the popular cat design website Hauspanther.com. She makes frequent guest appearances on My Cat from Hell, helping Jackson Galaxy create stylish cat-friendly environments.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Jackson Galaxy , Kate Benjamin
- 2014, 304 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0399166017
- ISBN-13: 9780399166013
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.02.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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"If you have cats, you need this book. Galaxy, star of the television series My Cat from Hell and author of Cat Daddy, along with Benjamin, founder of the cat design website hauspanther.com, show in over 400 color photographs myriad ways to make your home cat-friendly without looking like a crazy cat person. Best Interior Design Book of 2014."Library Journal
"Catification is user friendly, includes photos and diagrams and some truly inspirational ideas. Whether you share your home with one cat or ten, Catification: Designing a Happy and Stylish Home for Your Cat (and you!), is a must have. There are design ideas for every budget and every skill level. FIVE STARS (out of five)."
Examiner.com
Jackson Galaxy and Kate Benjamin know just how to transform your pad into a kitty-friendly paradise without wrecking a room s aesthetic.
New York Daily News
Even if you are DIY challenged and on very tight budget, there s such a range of ideas for all types of people, cats, and homes.
Adopt a Pet.com
Full of DIY tutorials, tips for understanding your cat's specific needs, plenty of examples to draw inspiration from, and other essential ingredients you'll need to create a home that is suited for both your feline companion (or companions) and your sense of design. Due to its focus on filling the pages with large, high quality photos and easy-to-follow, illustrated DIY tutorials (drawn by local graphic designer Catherine Madrid), Catification is like no other book on the market.
Phoenix New Times
One of my favorite things about Catification is that is encourages pet parents and cat lovers to look through the eyes of a cat. It is a funny and informative book with lots of tips that will get you excited about how you can make your cat even happier about being in your forever home! Even if your cat seems pleased with their
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environment, I recommend taking a look at this book.
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Praise for Cat Daddy:
"A joy. . . . Sometimes the biggest stories are actually the smallest ones one man, one cat, and a quiet love that was large enough to save them both."
Gwen Cooper, author of the New York Times bestseller Homer's Odyssey and Love Saves the Day
"This book is no ordinary cat memoir, nor is it an ordinary cat advice book. It is an inspirational tour de force that offers an intimate glimpse of Jackson, the man, and Jackson, the Cat Daddy."
Ingrid King, publisher and founder, The Conscious Cat, and award-winning author of Buckley's Story: Lessons from a Feline Master Teacher
"Mr. Galaxy shaved head, arms full of tattoos seems physically at odds with his gentle voice and gentle approach to animals. . . . But though he may be dealing with humans who have been terrorized and even bloodied by their out-of-control pets, he's a model of consistency. The cats, not the people, are his No. 1 priority."
The New York Times
Purrfect Cat Names
Praise for Cat Daddy:
"A joy. . . . Sometimes the biggest stories are actually the smallest ones one man, one cat, and a quiet love that was large enough to save them both."
Gwen Cooper, author of the New York Times bestseller Homer's Odyssey and Love Saves the Day
"This book is no ordinary cat memoir, nor is it an ordinary cat advice book. It is an inspirational tour de force that offers an intimate glimpse of Jackson, the man, and Jackson, the Cat Daddy."
Ingrid King, publisher and founder, The Conscious Cat, and award-winning author of Buckley's Story: Lessons from a Feline Master Teacher
"Mr. Galaxy shaved head, arms full of tattoos seems physically at odds with his gentle voice and gentle approach to animals. . . . But though he may be dealing with humans who have been terrorized and even bloodied by their out-of-control pets, he's a model of consistency. The cats, not the people, are his No. 1 priority."
The New York Times
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