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Caturday: The Truth About Cat Toys

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You can spend a small fortune on cat enrichment. You can research the physics of pounce‑angles, the aerodynamics of feather wobble, the optimal LED wavelength for feline engagement. You can buy the high‑tech, USB‑charged, AI‑enhanced, laser‑guided, Bluetooth‑enabled, self‑correcting, auto‑rotating, vet‑approved enrichment orb. Your cats will thank you politely by never touching it. Because the real toy — the one that activates their inner athlete, their inner hunter, their inner chaos gremlin — is the empty toilet paper roll. That empty roll is a log‑rolling competition. It’s CrossFit for cats. It’s the Olympics, but fuzzier and with more property damage. ( Actually, scratch that. The full toilet paper roll is even better. I t’s a vertical treadmill.) Meanwhile, you — the human — are doing your own enrichment routine: Going for walks to calm your nerves after the cats redecorate the bathroom Rolling on the floor to retrieve the roll that has now migrated under the couch Performing int...
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Publisher's Pride: Books on Bestseller Lists - Travels with Elly (MacDOnald)

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  Today's publisher's pride is Travels with Elly by Larry MacDonald, which reached #147 in travel with pets books. Book description: Discover Canada like never before -- from a personal perspective, similar to John Steinbeck's view of America in his 1960 book Travels with Charley . The author travels from coast to coast in a trailer with his wife and pets, including their Standard Poodle, Elly, in order to gain a better understanding of his adopted country. Interspersed between descriptions of history, cultures, places, and icons are the author's reflections on various things such as Elly's antics, signage, ferries, political injustice, environmental issues, and animal instincts. To provide a canine's perspective, Elly reflects on things of interest to her, including cats, cows, and other critters...but especially cats! Where was Canada's first settlement? What is its prettiest town? When and where was its most devastating shipwreck? And who was its greatest ...
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Publisher's Pride: Books on Bestseller Lists - An Afternoon's Dictation (Greenebaum)

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    Recently, An Afternoon's Dictation (Greenebaum), reached #256 on the Amazon bestseller list of books in ecumenism Christian theology. The book has been on bestseller lists many times.  Book Description:  In 1999 Steven Greenebaum felt he'd hit the wall. Fifty years old, he could not make sense of his life or the world around him. For several months he angrily demanded answers from God, if God were there. One afternoon, an inner voice told him to get a pen and paper and write. Steven then took dictation - three pages, not of commandments but guidance for leading a meaningful life.   An Afternoon's Dictation grapples with, organizes, and deeply explores the revelations Steven received and then studied for over ten years. His sharing is NOT offered as the only possible way to understand it the dictation. It is offered, rather, as a start. The book's sections include deep explorations into "The Call to Interfaith," "The Call to Love One Another," ...
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