Complete Cat Care Manual: The Essential, Practical Guide to All Aspects of Caring for Your Cat

This book is full of a LOT (but not all) of very useful information. It shows step by step instructions from feeding and grooming to emergency treatments of ALL kinds. It discusses types of cats and their body types all the way to breeding, nursing, showing. This is a good investment.

This book covers everything you need to know to care for your cat, from kitten to adult. Read it from cover to cover, then keep it handy for unplanned events. Your vet will thank you!

I have had this book a number of years and find it to be a great practical guide for a first time cat owner. It has beautiful clear photographs and discusses grooming, feeding, scratching posts, carriers, picking up your cat, nutritional requirements by age, the life cycle of a cat, parasites, cat behavior, and diseases. I like that it doesn't devote a huge section to the different breeds of purebred cats, but stays on topic for how to care for your cat. I like how photographs illustrate cat body language and facial expressions. I like that it is a reasonably short over-view that you can quickly read and learn the key information without being overwhelmed by too much information. The only reason I haven't given it 5 stars is that the book is due for a revised edition. While none of the info is wrong, I think some newer material could be added: the litter types could be expanded to include litters made of corn, wheat, or recycled paper. Mention of hyperthyroidism should be added to the section on caring for an elderly cat. This section could also include mention of the use of canned pumpkin for home treatment of mild constipation. Photographs of flea dirt and the larger female fleas would be nice additions to the skin parasite section. Under the section of problems in cat behavior, the litter box mishaps section could be expanded greatly, since litter box mishaps are a leading cause of owners relinquishing their animals to a shelter. The book could include how to clean up cat urine and hairballs. The feeding section could mention how to read an ingredient label so that meat is the first ingredient and grain fillers are only a small portion of the food. Overall though, this is a nice book and a great, inexpensive, practical gift.

This is a great book for my library. I decided to get myself a cat. Now dealing with a muscle wasting disease, I need to have my fingers in the pot to react as quickly as I possible. I also need to work small and less then 10 pounds each. This one is a keeper. Now, hopefully I won’t have to use it much. My biggest fear is nail clipping, but it’s nicely illustrated and I think I can do it! As you can see from my photo above, I couldn’t stop at one Everything I do is level turtle and two kittens operate somewhere around an F4 hurricane. So, I read voraciously trying to keep up with the two sweethearts. Wish me luck, I’m going in for the trim.

Great book with good information to have on hand. Great buy.

One topic per page, with lots of pictures and digestible sound bites. The first half of the book covers topics like what to look for in a cat, how to introduce it to your home, and how to take care of it. The second half seems like filler, with page after page of what types of health problems it might have (e.g., you don't really need to read a book to understand that blood in pee is bad, and if it happened you would just search on the internet or call a vet rather than look up your diagnosis in a picture book!). If you're looking for a book that isn't intimidating for kids, this is a good intro. But if you're an adult it probably isn't going to teach you much.

Basic but necessary information to get to know and raise your new cat.

We borrowed several books from the library as we were considering adding a feline companion to our family. This one was a hit with the kids -- DK so lots of pictures, one subject on each double-page, and some good information, too. They love the pictures of the cat getting a bath -- not a happy face :)

Exactly what I wanted, perfect.

Great book covers a lot of the basics information about cats

Nice, well-set-out book, a handy go-to, for a first-time cat owner.

A useful reference and fun to look through.

A good book for a first time cat owner and having 2 kittens was a good book to start with 10/10 ❤️