Cat

Item #: UE5872
Price: $15.99
Celebrate and enhance your relationship with your pet all year round via these entertaining and educational readers for cat and dog lovers. From an analysis of feline body language to a guide to litter-box training to a recipe for healthy homemade cat treats, Cat Lover's Daily Companion offers practical information, fascinating trivia, helpful advice, and entertaining anecdotes for every day of the cat owner's year (starting whenever!). And Dog Lover's Companion features similar helpful tips, fascinating insight, and fun activities: a guide for safe dog manicures on a Monday, a recipe for "pupsicles" on a Wednesday, and a weekend project of building a doghouse, for example. Both imminently browsable daily companions are enhanced with adorable full-color photographs. What perfect gifts for anyone whose every day is brightened by a furry friend.

Item #: UE6022
Price: $12.00
Celebrate and enhance your relationship with your pet all year round via these entertaining and educational readers for cat and dog lovers. From an analysis of feline body language to a guide to litter-box training to a recipe for healthy homemade cat treats, Cat Lover's Daily Companion offers practical information, fascinating trivia, helpful advice, and entertaining anecdotes for every day of the cat owner's year (starting whenever!). And Dog Lover's Companion features similar helpful tips, fascinating insight, and fun activities: a guide for safe dog manicures on a Monday, a recipe for "pupsicles" on a Wednesday, and a weekend project of building a doghouse, for example. Both imminently browsable daily companions are enhanced with adorable full-color photographs. What perfect gifts for anyone whose every day is brightened by a furry friend.

Item #: UE7742
Price: $15.60
Michael Ondaatje's latest novel recounts an eleven-year-old boy's twenty-one-day boat trip from his home in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) to London in 1953. The young narrator, Michael, is assigned to eat at the cat's table ("the least privileged place"), where he meets two boys who will become his cohorts in adventure aboard the Oronsay. As the boys exuberantly explore the (often forbidden) nooks and crannies of the ship, they encounter a slew of fascinating characters, including Michael's beautiful older cousin, a mysterious woman traveling with a flock of pigeons, and a shackled prisoner who roams the decks late at night and becomes the center of a mystery that will take Michael decades to unravel. Filled with excitement and suspense, the spellbinding narrative moves between the boy's perspective and his adult reflections on the life-altering sea journey. The highly acclaimed author of The English Patient delivers an exquisitely written novel about the magical experiences of childhood and how they shape the rest of ones life.

Item #: UF6082
Price: $19.95
Give your houseguests a chuckle as they wipe their feet (or paws!). These fun 18"x27" 100% olefin doormats pay hilarious tribute to feline and canine spirits. Cat features an excerpt from a cantankerous kittys diary that begins, Day 751: My captors continue to torment me with bizarre dangling objects…. Dog reads Its all fun and games until someone ends up in a cone and features a funny illustration. What perfectly playful presents for all your pet-owning pals! (Made in the U.S.A.)

Item #: UF6092
Price: $22.46
The perfect outfit for cuddling up with your favorite furry friend, our Cat Lover Sleepshirt declares, A cat lover never goes to bed alone. Featuring adorable illustrations of a variety of felines, the comfy oversized shirt (100% cotton) comes in a roomy one-size-fits-most (measures about 50" around and 34" from neck to hem). (Imported.)

Item #: UF4392
Price: $10.46
Drawn by Edward Gorey, the thirty-six different adorable cats featured in this memory game are engaged in all kinds of antics: riding a unicycle, hanging suspended from an umbrella, balancing on a ladder, and more! (There are two cards of each design, for a total of seventy-two cards.) As you search for pairs and test your memory, you'll smile with delight at the whimsical felines. What fun for cat lovers, Gorey fanatics, and anyone who could use some mental calisthenics! For ages 3 to 103.

Item #: UE7212
Price: $29.95
The photographs are enchanting: adorable, dramatic, sweet, funny, smart dogs and cats in and among the streets and parks, homes, cities, villages, and countryside of France. Rachael Hale somehow manages to capture the character of each animal she photographs. The Parisian settings make even the scruffiest pup and wildest kitten seem so, well, elegant. Wellchosen quotations enhance the spirit of the photographs. Plus, Hale provides contextual notes for some of her more surprising shots. Cator dog-loving Francophiles will love these big beautiful books!

Item #: UF7482
Price: $14.95
Hang photos, post messages, display important things to remember, or just playfully decorate any old metal surface with style! These fun home or office accessories feature colorful illustrations of adorable felines sporting fetching sweaters. Each set of four impressively powerful magnets (about 1" in diameter each) comes in a cute plastic case.

Item #: UF7621
Price: $13.47
These adorably playful cats and dogs are filled with the Christmas spirit! Our comfortably oversized, key lime green Twelve Cats and Twelve Dogs of Christmas Sleepshirts--with rollicking illustrations of Yuletide kitties and pups by artist Kevin Whitlark--make cheerful holiday sleepwear. Each 100% cotton jersey sleepshirt comes in S/M (35" long and 21½" wide) or L/XL (37" x 25¾"), and is sure to elicit some ha-ha-has and ho-ho-hos! (Printed in the U.S.A. on imported material.)

Item #: UF4901
Price: $13.46
If curling up with a good book and a warm furry friend sounds like bliss, then these adorable oversized shirts--featuring funny illustrations of literary kitties and pups by artist Kevin Whitlark--are the pawsitively perfect PJs! Each 100% cotton jersey sleepshirt comes in S/M (35" long and 21½" wide) or L/XL (37"x25¾"). Grab one for all of your pet-and book-loving pals! (Printed in the U.S.A. on imported material.)

Item #: HF4452
Price: $54.95
Dangling playfully from a delicate silver chain, this jocular, sweater-sporting cat is adapted from an Edward Gorey illustration. Engraved with Goreys signature on the back, the sterling silver pendant (about 1" long) hangs on an 18" sterling chain. What a cheerful accessory for cat- and Gorey-lovers young and old!

Item #: UG3022
Price: $13.95
Sing the lyrics above to the tune of Mozarts Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, and youll have a tiny taste of the brilliantly amusing compositions on Garrison Keillors Songs of the Cat. Youll find other classical works as well as clever twists on traditional folk and country ditties from the 1950s and 60s (in The Cats of Cash, Jimmy Johns mother pleads, Dont take your cats to town, son). There are some original Keillor gems, too (The In and Out Song had me in stitches). Adding magnificent operatic talent to this tongue-in-cheek tour de force, lauded mezzo-soprano Federica von Stade sings gloriously along with Keillor on several tracks. Hilariously conceived and impressively produced, Songs of the Cat (one hour, on one compact disc) offers extraordinary entertainment for lovers of music, humor, or cats.

Item #: UE9422
Price: $16.95
A to Z explorations of the irresistible appeal of cats and dogs, these exuberantly illustrated picture books offer a cute rhyme and an educational tidbit for every letter of the alphabet. In Cats, for instance, A is for Adored (you'll learn how cats were worshipped in ancient Egypt), F is for Finicky (but there's a biological reason that your kitty turns his nose up at food!), and T is for Tail (with some helpful translations for "tail talk"). Dogs showcases the quirky personalities of many popular breeds as well as other fascinating traits that make pups such lovable companions. Both volumes function as both children's picture books as well as adult coffee-table books: The simple rhymes will delight little animal lovers (ages 4 and up) while the more in-depth factoids will fascinate more mature cat and dog people. And the preponderance of Mark Anderson's lively and personality-filled illustrations will captivate readers of all ages!

Item #: UG0012
Price: $50.00
Small or large, sleek or fluffy, wild or tame (or in between), every cat pictured in this beautiful 12¼"x12¼" volume is a mysterious little masterpiece. Lewis Blackwell admiringly presents the feline species via extraordinary color photographs, engaging text about the history and nature of cats, and elegant quotations from cat-admirers through the ages. The intense stares from wickedly gorgeous feline eyes, the playful kittens in mid-frolic, cats inherently wild freedom and agile grace--all these things are strikingly captured in this lovely book, guaranteed to please a cat-lover (or maybe even create one!).

Item #: UG2862
Price: $22.95
If youre a public radio listener, youve likely had at least a few driveway moments--those times when you linger in the car after youve reached your destination, just to hear the end of a particularly compelling piece. This two-CD collection offers thirty-four such engaging stories, all celebrating our furry feline companions. Culled from Weekend Edition, All Things Considered, and other favorite NPR shows, the tracks have such enticing titles as Bicycling Across USA with Cat in Basket, The Story of 23 Cats and an Owl, Four Pounds of Fury, and Glowing Kittens Help in Fight Against AIDS. Some will make you laugh, many will teach you something new, and a few might bring a tear to your eye. With a total running time of about two hours, these Cat Tales will make the highway miles fly by!

Item #: UE5382
Price: $10.95
With more puppyish personality and cozy charm than you can shake a stick at, our Dogs in Sweaters Gift Wrap is adorably fetching. And, not to be outdone, the felines that grace our Vintage Cats Gift Wrap are stylishly elegant and perfectly unflappable. We're offering three 19½"x26" sheets--100% recycled and printed with vegetable-based ink--of either design so all your prettily packaged presents can be delivered with friendly canine and/or cool feline charisma.

Item #: UG2272
Price: $10.95
A comfy chair, an overstuffed bookshelf, and a bunch of snoozing cats…whats not to love about Edward Goreys Bibliophile with Cats illustration? Were offering the delightful image as a 100-piece jigsaw puzzle, which measures 8"x10" when complete. A perfectly pleasant activity for kids or adults to tackle in one sitting, the puzzle comes packaged in a cute little tin, so its easy to keep on hand for whenever you might need a quick diversion.

Item #: UG2582
Price: $29.95
These adorably funny 100% cotton sleepshirts make perfect lounging attire for pet-lovers. The How to Sleep with a Cat Sleepshirt features instructive illustrations of eight positions for snoozing with felines including the hoodie (cat draped over human head), the purring scarf (cat wrapped around human neck), and the chest crusher (self-explanatory). The Let Sleeping Dogs Have Most of the Bed Sleepshirt--with irresistibly cute drawings of snoozing pooches--simply advises that you allow your pup maximum bed space (as if you have a choice). Each comfy nightie comes in a roomy one-size-fits-most (measures about 50" around, and length is about 34" from neck to hem). (Imported.)

Item #: UF6642
Price: $16.95
Julia Child was a new bride in postwar Paris when she discovered a happy secret of French housekeeping: a cat in the kitchen. Her first, Minette, came courtesy of her cleaning woman, prescribed as just the thing to keep the mice at bay. And yet soon after meeting Julia, the newly installed poussiequette made clear her preference for Julias cooking above all else. And who can blame her? Sprinkled with photographs and excerpts from family letters (plus one recipe for yummy langues-de-chat cookies), Julias Cats offers a tenderhearted glimpse into the home life of the famous chef and her beloved husband, Paul, a private world considered complete only when the couple had a well-fed kitty keeping them company at the dinner table.

Item #: UG3802
Price: $16.95
The subtitle of this how-to guide gave me pause, for, in my experience, cats have not seemed particularly prone to persuasion. But Wendy Christensen, an expert in all things feline, promises that it is indeed possible for us mere humans to outsmart our wily kitties. Packed with insight into how cats have evolved and how they think, Outsmarting Cats presents tools and techniques for curbing your cats less-desirable behaviors--from furniture clawing to finicky eating to peeing outside the litter box. So whether your beloved pet is a curtain climber, an armpit nuzzler, a toilet paper hobbyist, or a cat of some other stripe, this richly informative reference is sure to enhance your home life.

Item #: UF6582
Price: $12.95
Im Not Paranoid, Who Is That on Your Lap?, The Leash, Kneel Before Me…all the classics of feline poetry are here! This hilarious little book presents dozens of works that illuminate the nuances of cats personalities alongside lots of color photographs of kitties doing the things they do: sitting on a keyboard, pawing at toilet paper, snoozing on the couch, etc.I Could Pee on This is a must for all the good-humored cat-lovers you know…theyll be as amused as a kitten with a ball of string.

Item #: UE9252
Price: $14.95
Literary felines grace these whimsical note cards--one sweet kitty takes a break from reading "The Owl and the Pussycat" to play with a peacock feather, a resourceful trio of cats implements plans learned from Birdfeeders You Can Build, a sleepy fluff-ball naps near her to-read stack, and an imaginative striped cat envisions a butterfly guidebook coming to life. What perfect vehicles for sending nice and nimble little notes to friends! Set of eight blank 4¼"x5½" cards includes two each of four designs shown, plus envelopes.

Item #: UG1082
Price: $16.95
The irresistible feline faces peering out from our lively Kitty Cards demand attention. The art for each card is designed as an advertisement for food or lodging: Hypno Kitty Mind Meld Morsels (…you are reaching for the can opener…); The Insistent Kitty Bed and Breakfast (at the corner of Feed Me and Now!); and Bossy Kitty Gourmet Chow (resistance is futile…feed me now!). Set of six includes two each of the three designs, with super-bright envelopes.