101 Uses for a Dead Cat

Hilarious stuff. Cats are a pest, and a blight, with millions of the little bastiches going feral. They also destroy much of the native wildlife, both birds and animals. So, if more people could put some of these groundbreaking scientific ideas into practice the country would be a far better place. ROFL stuff.

My cat just died, so I dug this book out as an antidote to my gloom. Fantastic, haven't laughed so much in years, and it's given me one or two ideas as well...

I first encountered "101 Uses for a Dead Cat" about 20 years ago. Every page produced at least a chuckle and a good many guffaws. These are humorously drawn cartoons without captions -- and they're as absurd as they're meant to be. Of course, no one in real life is going to use a dead cat for any purpose whatever, but given how seriously some cat lovers take their cats -- and the nature of the housecat -- the premise itself is funny. One of those premises, by the way, is that in these 101 absurd cartoons, cats appear to be of more usefulness dead than alive.I know a lot of cat owners who think this book is hilarious precisely because they love their cats despite the fact that, in many ways, their cats are frequently annoying, destructive, selfish, demanding and high maintenance.At any rate, I'm always amused when I find people who take this book so seriously they don't see the humor in it, much like vegetarians who go out to dinner with friends and then are obnoxious about the meat or fish other people are eating.

Since I was a child the hilarious drawings and crafty - yet dreadful ideas are still enjoyable to me and to everyone I introduce this book to in my bathroom reader basket. I can almost hear chuckles from the bathroom every few minutes! A fun book.

Mother points dramatically to a thoroughly flattened cat lying on the roadway. "Look at that!" she exclaims to her four-year old child. "THAT cat crossed the road without asking its mother first!!" Child bursts into a torrent of tears (and never again crosses a road without first asking mother.)