Cat-Dependent No More!: Learning to Live Cat-Free in a Cat-Filled World [Paperback]

Cat Dependency. What is it? Who suffers from it? And how can those afflicted free themselves from the tyranny of their tabbies? At last, there's a book that offers new hope to the millions who for years have been trampled underpaw. Without pussyfooting around, this recovery guide teaches how to live care-free and cat-free again.Chapter One
THE CULT OF THE
NONEXPERT
 
The cat owner can’t smell the box, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t stink.
           —SUPPORT-GROUP SLOGAN
 
 
I’m no expert, but I play one on TV. You may have seen me on the chat-show circuit talking about my cat-dependency workshops, yet I’m no more of an expert than you are. If I appear more knowledgeable it may only be because I know more—a cognitive advantage gained through an acquired experience differential.
 
Despite my non-expert status, however, people often ask me, “What is cat-dependence? Who has it and why? What are the symptoms? Is it contagious? Could I have it and not know it?”
 
I say, “Whoah!” Or as some say in the counselling industry, “Hold on a second.” If we answer all those questions at once, confusion may result. “Right away is right awry,” as the recovery slogan goes—meaning that changes quickly made are just as quickly unmade. Moreover, if we cover (or recover) too much ground too quickly it won’t be much of a book, will it? And although I’m no expert, just an ordinary person like yourself, I have amassed some small expertise in the course of writing several books on various feline domestic disorders.
 
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