Patrick Scrivenor
Cataholics & Catophobes
The Trainable Cat: How to Make Life Happier for You and Your Cat
By John Bradshaw & Sarah Ellis
Allen Lane 325pp £20 order from our bookshop
Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer
By Peter P Marra & Chris Santella
Princeton University Press 212pp £18.95 order from our bookshop
These two books appear at a time when Larry (the Number 10 cat, in the tabby and white corner) and Palmerston (the Foreign Office cat, in the black and white corner) have made headlines by fighting like ragamuffins all over Downing Street. They are billed as ‘mousers’, but surely what Westminster needs is a really good ratter. What it needs even more is some advice from John Bradshaw and Sarah Ellis, who have filled three hundred pages with sound advice on training cats.
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