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Book

The good luck cat : how a cat saved a family, and a family saved a cat

Call Number

  • 636.8 W289 (OSH)

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Publication Information

Guilford, Connecticut ; Helena, Montana : Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

Physical Description

243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Summary

A memoir of love and loss follows a mother and daughter's determined efforts to do anything they can to save their late husband's and father's favorite cat, Ting, including having a risky surgery to insert a pacemaker into the feline.

Contents

  • Homecoming
  • The littlest Warren
  • Dusk
  • Happy holidays
  • Any given day
  • Good fences
  • Party of one
  • Ting is missing
  • Cats and their companion animals
  • December 18, 2008
  • The sock drawer
  • Spring and summer
  • Ting is sick
  • Monitoring
  • Pacing
  • Homecoming again
  • Manuscript
  • My father's daughter.

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