The 20-Year Cat Method

Cats are built to hide pain and illness, and by the time most owners notice, it has been going on for a while. The 20-Year Cat Method, by Walt Henley of Old Cat Man, is a 137-page owner's manual in large type that teaches you to see it early. Its 16 chapters start with what can hurt her: the five signs of pain on a cat's face and six yes-or-no questions for sore joints, a ten-minute monthly look-over with her in your lap, and what the litter box and the water bowl tell you. Then the bowl itself, with the short safe list of human foods...