Kitty Cornered

How Frannie and Five Other Incorrigible Cats Seized Control of Our House and Made It Their Home

By: Bob Tarte

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Bob Tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have learned his lesson then, from Fluffy. But as he says, "I listened to my heart instead, and that always leads to trouble." In this tell-all of how the Tarte household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six - including a hard-to-manage stray named Frannie - Tarte confesses to allowing these interlopers to shape his and his wife's life, from their dining habits to their sleeping arrangements to the placement and furriness of their furniture. But more than that, Bob begins seeing Frannie and the other cats as unlikely instructors in the art of achieving contentment, even in the face of illness and injury. Bewitched by the unknowable nature of domesticated cats, he realizes that sometimes wildness and mystery are exactly what he needs.

With the winning humor and uncanny ability to capture the soul of the animal world that made Enslaved by Ducks a success, Tarte shows us that life with animals gives us a way out of our narrow human perspective to glimpse something larger, more enduring, and more grounded in the simplicities of love - and catnip.

©2012 Bob Tarte (P)2017 Tantor

Excellent book

Love all his books. so funny and engaging and heart warming. Excellent listen and I liked the narrator. would like this author to write about his parrot sometime.

kitty Kat Kaos at its best.

Great story nice narrator a wonderful story that cats people can relate. Heartwarming story for anyone that loves animals.

Cute story

Love kitties. This story is heart warming and interesting. Hoping for a part 2. Makes me want to have a cat.

Purrfectly delightful

It’s as if he knew every cat in my life. I even had a Lucy which I had cleverly named LucyFur thinking it was an honor to my idol Lucille Ball. But the joke was on me as this feral cat turned into the cat from hell, a hell which I endured for 8 years. My husband at that time said it was like living in a slasher film. I can’t wait to share this with a dear friend who could never say no to a cat. This was my first audible book, but I will now listen to Mr. Tarte’s other books. 👍👏