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All for the love of Cats a book of many stories, poems and information about house cats was written by Harold a retired college professor and his wife Kay a master of social work, and it all began in 1993 when a stray cat named Mama Boots leads Harold and his wife Kay on a merry chase to find a litter of kittens that she has hidden deep in the woods that surrounds their cottage in the mountains of western North Carolina. At first Mama Boots, a small diminutive brown cat with white boots is fearful of people and she evades them by hiding among the trees. But after weeks of playing hide-and-seek, she accepts their gift of tuna fish but continues to lead them astray when they attempt to follow her to her lair. Then one morning as they are eating breakfast on the upper deck of their cabin, her cries of desperation beckon her to follow her to a discarded length of a metal air conditioning duct pipe that up until then, had been her secret nursery, and she peacefully watches as they place her six kittens into a carboard box and follows them into the lower story of their two-story cabin. At first, she is uneasy, and at every chance she gets, she attempts to carry a kitten back to the pipe. But soon she makes the basement their home and, within the weeks that follow Harold and Kay are able to find homes for five of her kittens and place Mama and the last kitten at a stable where she attracts the attention of the owner who allows her to ride on the seat of his tractor as he tends to the many needs of the horses. The last kitten finds a home with a young girl who works at the stable and the owner of the stable become good friends and she looks forward to a tractor ride every time it leaves the stable and, when he dies years later, she makes the tractor seat her own and whiles away her spare time resting there in the hope that one day he will return. When she finally gives up hope she is invited to live at the widow's home above the stable that has a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view of the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains. Here, through large picture windows she follows the daily duties of the chipmunks and birds that live on the vast lawns and flower gardens that surround her new home. Following that Harold and Kay abandoned any other plans they may have had for their retirement and devote the next thirty years to building Catman2, a cats' only no-kill shelter without cages which saves the lives of hundreds of strays lost and abandoned cats each year and a few years later opens The American Museum of the House Cat near Sylva, North Carolina, to educate and entertain cat lovers from all over the world. This book tells the story of their cat rescues, adoptions, new poems never published before and other interesting facts about the life of the house cat. This book will become the best cat book you have ever bought and you will want to pass it down to those you love.