Tabitha June Is a Shoulder Cat

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Summary: Tabitha June is a Shoulder Cat by Nina M. Osier
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Tabitha June
Is a Shoulder Cat
By Nina Osier

Yes, I volunteered to Review this book before I knew what the title was. I heard from someone that Nina had some books that she needed reviewing and since Nina had done some work for me I felt an obligation to help her. Frankly I hate cats they make me deathly ill. I am allergic to even the smallest amount of their fur. My daughter has three cats and I won't go to see her because I know I will wind up in the hospital with Pneumonia, if I do.
Certainly, just reading a book about Cats can't make me sick. If anything it might help me learn to live a healthy life with cats. Well I am here to tell you, after reading the book, I am still afraid to try to live around cats but I have a much better knowledge of cats than I did before reading the book. In fact I thoroughly enjoyed Tabitha June Is a Shoulder Cat. Nina did such a good job of explaining how cats think and act and why they act and think the way they do. With all that said lets get on with the review. The setting of the book was in Maine. I spent one winter in Maine when I was a young boy in the U S Navy and know how cold it can get there in the winter. Nina came from a small family with one older sister and a mother and grandmother that both loved and had cats. It was from the time Nina was a little girl because that is where her story begins. It was only natural that Nina loved cats. Her mother and grandmother taught her how to raise and love cats and why some cats were different that others and they all had different personalities. There were dogs and cats at Nina's home when she was small and cats and other animals at her grandmother's house on an island where they all went to stay with grandmother and granddad during the very cold winter months. They took the dogs and cats with them on those winter jaunts. The dogs and cats would get sick from riding in the car on the way to grannies and would take them a little time to get over the car sickness.
After they were settled at grannies the cats would all go out and hunt on the farm if hunting was what they liked to do. Most all of the cats and dogs died in the story and after Nina moved out on the own she would get down to three cats and she would swear she didn't have room for any more cats. Then she would see a pet of the week advertised in the paper as a cat needing a home and she would have to go look at it and most often wound up coming home with two because she said, they looked so alone in the box or what they were in after she got the one she wanted, that I had to have both of them. The cats were always into some kind of trouble the older cats at home were teaching and she was teaching the young kittens what they should do. I would estimate that Nina keep an average of four to five cats and to use her own words speaking of the last two she brought home, "Life's cycle continues, and this pair is at its start right now. As I watch their delight in simply existing, and share their pleasure in experiencing each moment as it happens, my own joy in living is constantly renewed." That is the kind of person Nina M. Osier really is. She is a writer of Science Fiction and gives her life to others and cats. I am in a writing group with Nina NUW, Not the Usual Way, and I get to follow her comments through the message board and she is always helping others. She has her own way about teaching cats and I think it spills over to helping grown ups. She is always able to help any one needing it.
Reviewed by Jack Prather Published Author.