Kittens In The Boiler

Kittens in the Boiler

Cat Culture

Even people who live with cats and have good reason to know better insist that cats are aloof and uninterested in relating to humans. Janet and Steven Alger contend that the anti-social cat is a myth; cats form close bonds with humans and with each other. In the potentially chaotic environment of a shelter that houses dozens of uncaged cats, they reveal a sense of self and build a culture—a shared set of rules, roles, and expectations that organizes their world and assimilates newcomers.As volunteers in a local cat shelter for eleven years, the Algers came to realize that despite the frequency of new arrivals and adoptions, the social world of the shelter remained quite stable and pacific. They saw even feral cats adapt to interaction with humans and develop friendships with other cats. They saw established residents take roles as welcomers and rules enforcers. That is, they saw cats taking an active interest in maintaining a community in which they could live together and satisfy their individual needs. Cat Culture's intimate portrait of life in the shelter, its engaging stories, and its interpretations of behavior, will appeal to general readers as well as academics interested in human and animal interaction.

Jill's Journey

Jill's Journey: The Diary of a Bipolar Disorder Woman is about a woman who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was aborted at the request of her mother's doctor, who was treating her. She was too sick to have a child and was told by the doctors that she and possibly her baby would not survive the birth. The abortion shot they gave her didn't work, and she had the baby and survived, ten months later. When Jill was born exactly one month late, she had rheumatic fever of 107 degrees. They didn't think she was going to live. Her mother called the pastor of the church that she regularly attended and was a member of. They anointed the baby, Jill, with olive oil and prayed over her. Within the next hour, the fever broke, Jill's first miracle of many more to come. This book will tell you about the near-death experiences and miracles that God saved her from. She knows that God is real, and she's a living proof!