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Title: kind of ugly, if you read between the lines
Review: i read this book because of its good reviews and because, having grown up around them, i love siamese cats. this book, however -- i'm unsure if it's because it's british, or because it's a product of the 1950s, or both -- really turned me off with its depiction of pet ownership.when you strip away the author's admittedly charming anthropomorphisms of the animals around her, the story reads as such: a couple buys a purebred siamese cat to live an outdoor/indoor life and catch mice in a neighborhood where cats and other pets are not kept indoors, seldom spayed or neutered, and often fight. the resulting pregnancies (spare one planned one) and injuries weren't terribly pleasant to read about, with or without that charming veneer.
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