Gatos

Why do more and more people have a cat at home? What is it about this animal that seduces us? Pam Brown used to say that "a cat transforms the return to an empty house into a homecoming" and, today, we can already be sure that it will be the pet of the future. The cat is the absolute protagonist in social networks with millions of videos and annual reproductions all over the planet. In fact, Google's brain is constantly working to find them on the net. But not even the cattiest of cat people know the interesting stories that these animals have. Did you know that Egyptian women shaved their heads and dressed in mourning clothes when their cat died? Or that if you adopt one of the feline guardians that have been guarding the Hermitage for 200 years you get free admission to the museum forever? And that at the beginning of the 20th century all the New York newspapers published cat news next to other important news such as Hitler's atrocities? This book gathers a thousand and one adventures of this magical creature that has fascinated mankind for ten thousand years. The Egyptians considered it a sacred animal and Mohammed, it is said, cut his tunic so as not to wake his cat when she fell asleep on his lap. There are many cat stories and not all of them are here, but the ones that are will delight any feline heart. Come on in...and purr.