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no one could figure out his big finale trick sawing a dog in half (The answer was simple He didn&t like dogs) Hjalmar the Viking cat whose motto is "Pillage Tuna Plunder Nap" Plus Cool Dad cat English Major cat Star-Crossed Lovers cat Weight Lifter cat Evil Twin cat and Undercover Cop cat who was embedded with the enemy so long he&d begun to like the taste of Milkbones
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Writer & illustrator Doogie Horner knows just what it is about cats that so obsesses & delights us Their impenetrable personalities their self-contained quirkiness the aura of mystery that makes it seem as if they&re always up to something that they don&t want us to know about So he imagines their secret lives for us in a way that takes the most surprising & whimsical turns With cartoonish full-colour illustrations accompanied by absurdly funny stories & droll observations Some Very Interesting Cats is a gallery of 100 impossible cat characters Like the Alien cat Xort who reports back to his planet " Have trained my humans to feed & pet me They suspect nothing" Or Mountain Climber cat Snowball & his route up the North Curtain to Mt Bookcase & Mystico the Magician cat no one could figure out his big finale trick sawing a dog in half (The answer was simple He didn&t like dogs) Hjalmar the Viking cat whose motto is " Pillage Tuna Plunder Nap" Plus Cool Dad cat English Major cat Star-Crossed Lovers cat Weight Lifter cat Evil Twin cat & Undercover Cop cat who was embedded with the enemy so long he&d begun to like the taste of Milkbones

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