Buttercup The Legendary Charm and Love of a Domestic ShortHaired Tabby Cat edition by Jerome Tonneson Dr Irene Schomacker Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks
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There are so many wonderful animals living in shelters, ready to give unconditional love to someone willing to share his or her home, but many will never have that opportunity. Buttercup was one of the lucky ones. Rescued from a shelter by a caring couple, she went on to spend the bulk of her life with one very fortunate human, providing invaluable companionship while developing a bond that was arguably stronger than that in most human relationships.
Buttercup is the true story of a simple but beautiful house cat. It is an account of her loving nature, her unique quirks, her confidence, her intelligence, and the unbelievable things she did during her life from helping raise two adolescent cats that weren't her kittens, to protecting the house from intruders (four- and six-legged), to reminding her human that sometimes he simply needed to stop and pet the cat. In short, it is the story of all of the great things that made Buttercup uniquely Buttercup.
Buttercup The Legendary Charm and Love of a Domestic ShortHaired Tabby Cat edition by Jerome Tonneson Dr Irene Schomacker Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks
This is a book of life long love and companionship between a man and his cat. Not just Buttercup is special, as her man is also very special in his devotion to her happiness. This book is easy to read, with some funny insights. The only complaint is it can get a little repetitious towards the last third, but is forgivable, as the author cannot say enough, just how much he loved her.Product details
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Buttercup The Legendary Charm and Love of a Domestic ShortHaired Tabby Cat edition by Jerome Tonneson Dr Irene Schomacker Crafts Hobbies Home eBooks Reviews
This is for all pet owners who make your feline part of the family. I've started noticing more about my own cat since reading about Buttercup. This was one lucky cat to have Jerome looking after her. Great Read!!!!!
Jerome Tonneson's 'Buttercup The Legendary Charm and Love of a Domestic Short-Haired Tabby Cat' could elicit five-star ratings and buckets of tears from an ailurophile who is an uncritical reader. But from a cat lover like me, 'Buttercup' doesn't elicit much of anything at all.
First I'm cool to the book because it delivers almost precisely what the 'Introduction' promises “What follows is a collection of humorous anecdotes, quirky behaviors and heart-warming stories that characterize one extraordinarily simple house cat. Cat lovers especially will likely relate to many of these stories.”
Mr. Tonneson is mostly correct in his assertion His Buttercup (May she rest in peace.) was indeed an “extraordinarily simple house cat.” So simple was Buttercup that nobody who spends much time with cats will be surprised at anything Tonneson's account of her life claims that she did. So simple was Buttercup that her life would be of little interest to any long-time cat owner – certainly not worth a book – except to Tonneson, who surely and properly loved his Buttercup dearly. Hats off to Mr. Tonneson for standing by his cat.
Having been a cat owner for most of my life (I'm 66 years old and have three cats in the house as I write.) Tonneson's 'stories' of Buttercup are ho-hum stuff. If I raided all shelters within a 50-mile radius of my house I could easily find a hundred tabbies like Buttercup, all of them desperate for a home. Most any one of them would make a loving, grateful, desirable pet and most any one of them would be just as 'interesting' as Buttercup, which is to say most of them wouldn't be 'interesting' at all.
“Humorous anecdotes?” “Quirky behaviors?” There are none in Tonneson's book for anyone who knows cats. I got completely through the book without cracking a smile. The behavior of Buttercup and her two feline companions is plain vanilla, middle-of-the-road, unremarkable cat stuff. Readers who never owned a cat before could find 'Buttercup' useful inasmuch as Tonneson's book gives a good, solid description of all that is 'normal' in cats. Readers who like and desire what they find in 'Buttercup' should by all means adopt a kitten, but they should be prepared for whatever happens next because not all cats are as placid as Buttermilk and her friends. Some cats truly are 'interesting.'
Over the years my heart was broken by several 'interesting' cats – tortoiseshells, as a rule. Their love is fierce, jealous, possessive, which makes them overly protective and shrewdly rambunctious. They are great fun to watch because they get into fantastic scrapes and they scrap with other critters and even with people. Spaying helps a bit, but not much. Where household management and scheduling are at issue, “torties” can be stubborn or bossy but in one-cat households they are sweetness incarnate. Outside is another story. Obsessive territoriality aside, the worst problem any tortie has is that sooner or later her luck runs out. Whenever I've got one I am awed by her courage, her resolution, and her 'rage to order.' I always hope she will live forever. . . .
Tonneson's Buttercup wasn't in that league. By his account, Buttercup loved and was grateful for her comfy home, her food, her toys, her patron's warm lap and gentle strokes, and that's about the extent of it. She was obviously 'a good kitty' and a real dear-heart. I'm sure I'd have been fond of her myself, but such saintly feline behavior doesn't merit Tonneson's 196-page account.
Second As self-published authors go, Tonneson is better than many but yet – from where I sit – his prose wants polish. I have a feeling that since he started using 'since' where 'because' is called for, his readers consistently are thrown off-track because they mistakenly understand that some time passed between events in the first clause and events in the second. Tonneson's sentences also suffer in part for what I believe is an over-reliance on gerunds. There is nothing wrong with straightforward verbs, after all, and persistent use of them does speed the narrative along.
I understand that the nits I've picked there are pretty small and that such things aren't necessarily faults. They are in truth a matter of authorial preference. Even so, the deeper I delved into 'Buttercup,' the more difficult I found staying focused.
Finally I never go to cat shows myself, but Landlady goes sometimes. Two weeks ago she went with a girlfriend to a cat show in a city nearby. She tells me she bought 'Buttercup' in paperback directly from author Tonneson, who had a table set up at the show. When she brought it home she tossed it in my lap. I thought she meant it for a gift. Later she told me she aims to keep it herself, and that's a good thing because I don't want it.
Shelf space is exhausted in my room, which these days more resembles a long-tenured academic's office than a bedroom. In recent years I've filled boxes with books and stacked the boxes in corners. Now there are no corners left, my bed is hard to find, and I have no space for Tonneson's book. Were the decision mine to make, I'd take 'Buttercup The Legendary Charm and Love of a Domestic Short-Haired Tabby Cat' to a book shelter, where it might find a home in the loving hands of someone who likes such stuff and has room in which to keep it.
Being a DOG person only, until recently, and not really having been owned by a cat, I was pleasantly surprised by This BOOK.
Recently I became owned by an abandoned baby kitten who walked right in and stole my heart, body and soul.
I can only hope that my Lucky Penny will be as intelligent and loving as Buttercup.
It is a very pleasing experience to read this book.
There are people who are described as "cat people." This is a book about a people cat and her faithful person. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not a huge fan of house pets, and I grew up enjoying the company of dogs more than cats. Now that that's out of the way...
This is a book about companionship and shared experiences. This is a book about the joy that can come from unexpected places. This is a book about losing a great friend when maybe you needed that friend to help carry you down the road just a little longer.
While I tend to gravitate to stories that follow these themes, I can't honestly say I've read--and enjoyed--a book that wasn't also about something like mountaineering, traveling through the wilderness, or engaged in an otherwise life-and-death struggle against all odds. It's somewhat unexpected that I found joy reading a book set in everyday, suburban life.
No, this won't replace White Fang on my list of epic animal stories. However, it does make me laugh, think, and appreciate people who choose to adopt these animals and make them an integral member of their family.
The relationships between people and animals are often filled with animosity. It was refreshing to read of a relationship that shows a bond beyond the conventional. The story of Jerome and Buttercup made me chuckle and also cry. This book is a fiting tribute to an exceptional feline.
Very good book in my opinion. You probably would not appreciate if as much if you were not a cat person, but having been the support staff for several cats in my lifetime, I could relate to Jerome's observations of a "super" cat. I know the author personally, and this book was written from his heart. A great read.
This book is really only for serious cat lovers. They are like our children. I've met the author at several CFA and ACFA cat shows in the midwest, he's a very kind gentle person that loves his cats but had special affection for Buttercup.
This is a book of life long love and companionship between a man and his cat. Not just Buttercup is special, as her man is also very special in his devotion to her happiness. This book is easy to read, with some funny insights. The only complaint is it can get a little repetitious towards the last third, but is forgivable, as the author cannot say enough, just how much he loved her.
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