Listening to Catnip

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Listening to Catnip by Dr. Sigmund F. Winnicat with Camille Smith This slim volume is subtitled "Stories From a Catanalyst's Couch", and is hilarious. The premise here is that Dr. Sigmund F. Winnicat (Fluffy to his pet humans) treats daydreaming disorders through the therapeutic use of catnip. His "Good Home" has a catdoor that allows his patients to come to him, although he has made house calls and conducted sessions via email. (He hides his correspondence in a secret directory that his pet humans think is part of the computer's operating system.) As in any clinical study treatise, there are numerous footnotes* and references to other works, such as Kitty Friedan's landmark work "The Feline Mystique" or Franz Catka's "Metamousosis". While written in a deadpan, academic manner, the language is liberally felinenglish ("pawsome", "catolescence", "purrsonality") and recounts five case studies of feline neurosis, delightfully illustrated by Paul Bacon. Published in 1996 by Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. ------- *At least one footnote per double page spread, and often two or three...