Name: Fur Person
ISBN: 9780393301311

May Sarton

Fur Person

Sarah Sammis

is a delightful book by a person who has clearly lived with cats. The 10 cat commandments are a cute way to outline basic cat behavior. I especially liked watching the cat protagonist's progression from Cat About Town to Gentleman Cat to Gentle Cat to finally Fur Person.

This book's cat, later named Tom Jones, reminds me a great deal of one of my grandmother's cats, a young stray we named Oliver (for Oliver Twist). He too went through the transformations outlined in the this book and after my grandmother's death spent the remainder of his years as the very dapper cat of a family who had rented my grandmother's house. He followed them back to Sunnyvale from San Diego where he lived for another couple of years.