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Cargando... Shadow Cats: Tales from New York City's Animal Underground (edición 2002)por Janet Jensen
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At the foot of corporate skyscrapers and high-rise apartment buildings, New York's homeless felines have formed their own society. Some once knew the comfort of human care and companionship, but most were born into a world remote from that of the gentle house cat. Considered by some to be a scourge to be eradicated, these shadow cats have won the hearts of a fiercely protective group of New Yorkers whose mission is to help them survive.Author Janet Jensen is one of the few New Yorkers who has been granted entry into this animal underworld. Throughout her work with these animals, she learned new lessons about the amazing connection between human beings and animals.Shadow Cats tells the stories of these feline subjects and the people whose lives these animals have touched -- animal control officers, compassionate neighbors, and those who wish to rid the city of them -- as they share their experiences.Shadow Cats takes readers on a wild journey to a wild world just outside their doors. You'll never look at a stray cat the same way again No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The passion of the author and of other rescuers comes through clearly in this book. I found it very heartwarming that in a city like New York, known for its toughness, there are networks of people dedicated (sometimes to extremes) to save cats which will never be pets to anyone. For people outside cat rescue groups, this book is a fine introduction to what it takes to rescue cats, both financially and emotionally.
My biggest complaints with this book are the overall writing and organization. In many places, the writing could be more clear, more descriptive, more detailed. She missed many opportunities to elaborate on humorous situations or to explain why certain actions were more appropriate. The book is generally told in chronological order, but this is not always adhered to. Some chapters seem almost to have been inserted later, to fill out the book. Maybe it was her passion and her emotional connection to the subject that led the author astray, but I would have liked the book more had it been better edited. A minor complaint is that I wished she had included more details on handling these cats -- taming a feral cat -- so that I could learn something useful when dealing with my traumatized shelter cats.
Overall, this is a good book. Someone had recommended it to me and I'm not displeased that I bought and read it. I probably will not read it again, because of some of the tragic stories -- stories which I take too much to heart. If, however, someone came to me and asked for a book about cat rescuing, I'd have them read this one so they understood more of what they were getting into. ( )