This book is filled with short stories about cats. Good cats, mostly, and happy cats, mostly, but a few wild cats and a few less nice cats thrown in for good measure.
My favourite stories from this book were two: One by Neil Gaiman, where a stray cat defends a cat-friendly family against the Devil. This one made me sad, because the cat gets rather badly hurt in these fights, but if he doesn't fight, then the house is troubled by all sorts of mischief. I wish that cat good luck and swift healing, wherever it may be. The other is A. R. Morlan's story, which talks about an elderly gentleman who spent his life painting tobacco ads on barns, personalising each with cats. A photographer who records these signs (despite their poor condition, being painted on barns and all, they're considered Art) runs into the painter, and learns that the cats aren't just any old cats, each is an individual that the painter met and loved, at some stage in his life. It's a bit heartwrenching to read about how this man has had the thing that caused him the most joy and happiness in his life put out of reach by old age and bodily frailty.
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