Enjoy fast, free delivery, exclusive deals, and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime
Try Prime
and start saving today with fast, free delivery
Amazon Prime includes:
Fast, FREE Delivery is available to Prime members. To join, select "Try Amazon Prime and start saving today with Fast, FREE Delivery" below the Add to Cart button.
Amazon Prime members enjoy:- Cardmembers earn 5% Back at Amazon.com with a Prime Credit Card.
- Unlimited Free Two-Day Delivery
- Streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows with limited ads on Prime Video.
- A Kindle book to borrow for free each month - with no due dates
- Listen to over 2 million songs and hundreds of playlists
- Unlimited photo storage with anywhere access
Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. If you're happy with Amazon Prime, do nothing. At the end of the free trial, your membership will automatically upgrade to a monthly membership.
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
OK
The Therapist's Cat Paperback – January 16, 2012
Purchase options and add-ons
This is a poignant, charming and amusing fiction story that raises very moral questions about our interaction with animals and how this may impact on us at a later date. Psychotherapist, Pete Shepherd’s life is changed dramatically when his new girlfriend, Emmie, presents him with a kitten called Moo. Not particularly fond of cats he is about to take Moo into an animal rescue centre when he discovers that she can both speak his language and read his thoughts. Moo has a mission: to educate Pete about the very dire state of the animal kingdom due to humanity’s mistreatment and mishandling of animals. Gradually she begins to educate Pete on animal evolution that is strange, fascinating and rather disturbing if this is true. Apparently, a race of animal beings, known as the Nasym, have forced their way into the human evolutionary chain in order to escape the cruelty. Moo's deepest fear is of becoming human and losing her fur; because a life without the qualities of fur is unbearable and also what she believes to be humanity’s fundamental problem.
,- Print length188 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSoul Rocks Books
- Publication dateJanuary 16, 2012
- Dimensions5.58 x 0.37 x 8.58 inches
- ISBN-101846948479
- ISBN-13978-1846948473
"Layla" by Colleen Hoover for $7.19
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love. | Learn more
Product details
- Publisher : Soul Rocks Books (January 16, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 188 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1846948479
- ISBN-13 : 978-1846948473
- Item Weight : 6.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.58 x 0.37 x 8.58 inches
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
Stephanie was born in London in 1956 and went to Boarding School in Oxfordshire for four years. She started writing from a very young age, mainly poetry, some of which has been published by Blue Mountain Arts in the States. She wrote about 600 short stories for the romance market (IPC) and was a regular contributor to Prediction magazine, in the 1990s. She then worked as editor of New Vision, a spiritually oriented magazine for seven years in Bosham, nr Chichester. Simultaneously, she began a Master's Degree in Psychosynthesis Psychology at the Institute for Psychosynthesis in London and which she completed in 2005.
To support her writing she works as a Clinical Support Worker at a hospital in Cumbria. In the last three years so has given talks around the UK and run workshops/retreats in the States as well as the UK. She is passionate about animals and has a whippet and a cat.
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon-
Top reviews
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
By Stephanie Sorrell
When I first began reading this book, I wondered if it was going to be `my cup of tea'; something I would enjoy or put down after a chapter or two. I'm happy to say that I did really enjoy this book because it has a very interesting story line and an even more interesting sub-story line.
The blurb on the back cover told me this:
"Psychotherapist, Pete Shepherd's life is changed dramatically when his new girlfriend, Emmie, presents him with a kitten called Moo. Not particularly fond of cats he is about to take Moo into an animal rescue centre when he discovers that she can both speak his language and read his thoughts. Moo has a mission: to educate Pete about the very dire state of the animal kingdom due to humanity's mistreatment and mishandling of animals."
Michelle Lovric, author of `Cats and their slaves' says this of The Therapist's Cat: "A warm and clever tale of a man who fuses psychotherapy with ailurophilia and comes out wiser as a result."
Having read the blurb and the endorsements, I have to admit to feeling a little anxious as I opened the book to the first chapter. I wasn't sure that I would like a book about a psychotherapist but I was in for a real treat. This is a poignant, charming and amusing fiction story that raises very moral questions about our interaction with animals and how this may impact on us at a later date.
Pete Shepherd is a man who, like most of us, has his good days and his not so good days. He forms quite close bonds with his patients but when one of them decides not to continue with therapy, just as Pete feels they're on the cusp of discovery, he is thrown in to a deep depression.
The one good thing to see him through his doubts and fears is his cat Moo, who, he discovers, can not only speak his language but read his thoughts as well. What follows is an exciting journey as Moo is on a specialist mission where she travels through the Portal at certain times in between educating Pete on animal evolution which is strange and disturbing. Apparently, a race of animal beings, known as the Nasym, have forced their way into the human evolutionary chain in order to escape the cruelty but even they have secrets to hide. "The violence that humans have inflicted on the animal kingdom will return to them through the Nasym. Or rather, is returning through the human children coming into incarnation ..." (The Gospel of Moo)
Time is running out; mistreatment, neglect, abuse, and mishandling of animals is rampant and there aren't enough people wise enough to help. Can Moo single-pawedly bring about Man's enlightenment? Read the book to find out - it's a gripping read, one that I can thoroughly recommend.
Peppered throughout the book are Mooisms; these are very succinct sayings of Moo (like the Tao) from The Gospel of Moo and she believes that God has fur. "Each life form sees God in their own image. You humans see God as a Super Human ... whereas we cats see God as a Super Cat. But I know for sure that God has Fur."
I particularly liked: "When in doubt, follow the Fur ..."
And another: "You see it's not a matter of you owning us, feeding and protecting us. In many ways, it's the other way around." (The Gospel of Moo)
This has particular resonance with me: "Your greatest problem as a human being is that you are deluded by all the distractions you create for yourself in order to block the Purr out." I think that is very relevant to how society is in general today.
"The Purr is an energetic force which underlies all life! (The Gospel of Moo)
One thing I must share that happened to me while I was reading it was that my cat Ollie was particularly attentive. He would sit and gaze at me with his beautiful green eyes and it felt as if he could see right into my soul. Having read of Moo's capabilities and knowing that we can communicate telepathically with animals if we tried, I did wonder if Ollie and Sam are on the same mission as Moo. Perhaps they are trying to educate me to help stem the tide of abuse towards all animals that is so horrendously prevalent today.
Read the book and decide if any of your cats look at you in a certain mesmerising way - as if they are trying to reach the depths of your soul!
Therapy cats come in all sizes and breeds. The most important characteristic of a therapy cat is its temperament - and the author cleverly awarded Moo the cat with a therapeutic temperament - she can read the therapist's thoughts and speak his language! A tale of a journey, broken love affair and then another love affair that is not human but has more depth than many human relationships - this could easily become a short cult-film.
By an author who also writes about astral projection and spiritual psychotherapy - the message of spirituality is brought through the back door here, a fact that does not make it any less poignant.
~Ram Das Batchelder, author of “Rising in Love: My Wild and Crazy Ride to Here and Now, with Amma, the Hugging Saint”
Despite the seriousness of some of the subject matter this story is an easy and entertaining read. Written with imagination and insight, it forces the reader to stop and think about our relation with animals. It almost convinced me to get a pet cat and I don't even like cats!
If you want a quick read that will entertain and challenge you, I highly recommend The Therapist's Cat.