Animal Magnetism

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Purring, deep rumbling, is my first memory of life. Mickey, a long-haired tiger cat, provided the purr as he slept in my cradle. Mother called him an Angora. These days people call them Persians.

Looking back, I realize that my whole life has been lived with and through animals. Other people’s significant dates include first kiss, first physical congress and attendant drama, first marriage, first child, first job—well, you get the idea. For me, it’s first cat, first dog, first horse, first cow, and so on. And each of them taught me something.

This book is about the many lessons I’ve learned, the animals who have loved me, endured me, and taught me, and my bottomless love for them in return.

The past rides on my shoulder like the parrot my paternal grandmother kept. What a chatterbox that bird was. Never on good terms with the old biddy, one summer I taught her parrot to say unchristian words. The past is like that: whispering, chattering, squawking, and often the very things you’d prefer not to hear or remember.

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