New Year feline wishes - and news
Dear fellow cats,
I was going to write a New Year Message, full of good hope, goodwill, and optimism. Instead, I have both good and bad news.
The good news is that at last the world will be able to read my words of wisdom. A book is coming out in February with the title 100 Ways to be More Like your Cat. Feline Wisdom for Happy Humans. Here at last is my attempt to enlighten the human, not the feline, race. I think all cats would agree that humans would be happier if they imitated us.
The bad news is that my name is not on it. In order to purrsuade humans to buy it, the publisher said, it must have a human name. So once again, my secretary's name is there on the cover, not mine.
Purrsonally I am extremely upset by this. It is not the first time she has indulged in outright plagiarism of my ideas. But for the good of the human race, I had to accept this.
I shall make her pay.... I am thinking of ways of getting my revenge.
Yours with very mixed feelings,
George.
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This blog is devoted to the study of human behaviour. We cats, who live with this sometimes unpredictable and always feeble minded species, can benefit from seeing their behaviour in its proper scientific context. The study of feline dilemmas, training problems, and difficulties with humans, can only benefit all of us. All of us train our humans - to buy the right food, for instance, but many of us do not have knowledge of how to improve our training methods. The human species is obviously not as intelligent as the cat, but nevertheless can learn quite a lot - if properly managed. Topics of interest include the use of claw and order, purring as a human reward, rubbing your human up the right way, when to bite, spraying as a method of making our wishes known, ignoring the human, human harassment, human inattention and sheer human stupidity. I welcome your questions. Photos can be sent via my secretary's website, www.celiahaddon.com This blog has been chosen as one of the top 50 feline blogs by Online VetTechprogramms.org
The bad news is that my name is not on it. In order to purrsuade humans to buy it, the publisher said, it must have a human name. So once again, my secretary's name is there on the cover, not mine. 
Oh George, that is SO not fair! Sparkle always had her name on her books (and one of them was traditionally published too). And my human is a small publisher and she says she would have TOTALLY kept your name! Anyhow, conCATulations on your book!
ReplyDeleteSparkle has more sense than I do. I let her get away with it once before, and because it was a success, the publishers need her name not mine.....
ReplyDeleteI am sure you will think up a suitable revenge. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteGeorge, the legend says that you've always had a loving, soft spot in your heart for Celia!
ReplyDeleteI'm reading the diary of two cats who loved you very much (it seems, based on what I'm reading, they loved Celia too! Hmm!a bit confusing). Anyway, Congratulations on your new book! I'm sure the feline cyberspace knows who is the real author :-)
Happy New Year to you & your loved ones!
Purrs & cheers
Chico
We do push George for years to think of a suitable revenge :-)
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to All!
CAT Victoria
George, why not making your 1st New Year resolution to find the proper revenge and finally teach Celia a lesson? Warning: she'll try to bribe you! My advice? Resist!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Minnie
George, Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteNo revenge! Don't make Celia feel sorry for stealing your ideas!
We all know that but I really want to read the book!
Lenny
Happy New Year to All!
ReplyDeleteI'm new to the blog (I'm only 10 weeks old) - it seems I have lots of reading to do :-)
Purrs
Whiskers
Welcome Whiskers
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