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Author Alger, Janet M., 1937- author.

Title Cat culture : the social world of a cat shelter / Janet M. Alger, Steven F. Alger
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) : illustrations
Series Animals, culture, and society
Animals, culture, and society.
Contents Preface: Why an Ethnography of a Shelter?; Acknowledgments; 1. The Myth of the Solitary Cat; 2. The World of Whiskers; 3. The Human-Cat Connection; 4. The Social Bonds among the Cats; 5. The Feral Cats and Shelter Solidarity; 6. Leaving the Shelter Community; 7. Culture and Self in the Domestic Cat; 8. Animals in the Future of Sociology; Afterword; Notes; References; Index
Summary This work contends that the anti-social cat is a myth; cats form close bonds with humans and with each other. In the potentially chaotic environment of a shelter that houses dozens of uncaged cats, this work reveals a sense of self and the building of a culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234) and index
Notes English
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Subject Cats -- Behavior
Cats -- Social aspects
Animal shelters.
Human-animal relationships.
animal shelters (welfare buildings)
PETS -- Cats -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Animal shelters
Cats -- Behavior
Cats -- Social aspects
Human-animal relationships
Form Electronic book
Author Alger, Steven F., 1941- author.
ISBN 9781439907726
1439907722