Why read Please Take Me Home?

Book cover of Please Take Me Home: The Story of the Rescue Cat

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In Please Take Me Home, Clare Campbell takes us on a journey with the nation's rescue cats, from being treated as pests throughout history to being the pet of choice today.

For a long time, stray cats in Britain were seen as a nuisance and hunted down as vermin. Having…

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1 author picked Please Take Me Home as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Celia Haddon

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I chose this book because it is a history of cat rescue. Rescuing cats was, and still is, a complex and difficult task. The book deals with the struggle to get cat rescue organised in a way that could benefit not just cat rescuers but also cats!

Individual cat lovers have always fed cats on the street, with the resulting increase in feline numbers! At one point, rescuers thought the only answer was to euthanase all street cats, but nowadays, a concerted effort is being made to neuter and spay feral cats rather than try to turn them into unsatisfactory…

From Celia's list on cat lovers and cat rescuers.