Clever Cats

Advantages: Cute cover
Disadvantages: Rubbish contents

...This is the time of year when all of the tacky presents appear in the shops that the recipient will feign great appreciation for on Xmas morning and send to the charity shop in the new year. As well as tacky toys and gadgets the bookshelves are filled with all the latest z list celebrity biographies and other rubbish books that no sane person would surely buy for themselves. One of those books is called Test Your Cat; The Cat IQ Test which was gifted to me by a friend presumably after she had taken the 10 minutes to test her cat and thought giving it to me was a way of making room on her bookshelf for something better. The Cat IQ test is a small hardback book with an attractive picture of a cat on the front. The book is only 120 pages long, most of those pages contain a single question with room to record your response by ticking...

wigglylittleworm 19.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Test Your Cat - E.M. Bard

Cat's Scary!

Advantages: looks cute
Disadvantages: retired

...When I was younger, my friends and I were addicted to teddies, more in particular those in the TY Beanie range! TY make a lot of soft toys, in all forms, including animals bears, and Beanie Boppers which are like little people. My friends and I loved the TY beanies, and between us probably had all of them! There are lots of different animals in the TY range, and a lot of them were cats, much to my delight. One of the little cats is known as Frightful. She is not just a normal little kitty though, but represents Halloween. I love witches especially, so this beanie is perfect for me. Frightful is jet black, with bright orange paws. On her head there is an adorable witches hat with cobwebs, complete with little hanging spider. She definitely has a frightening look to her, but she is utterly gorgeous! To the touch, Frightful has quite long...

Amy69 21.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of TY Frightful the Black Cat

The Cat's out of the Bag

Advantages: Catchy Songs
Disadvantages: .

...my Dog and Sad Lisa to name a few. I can?t say there?s any particular songs on the album that I don?t like, the only one I don?t play is Morning has Broken, but that?s only because it was played at my mum?s funeral, and at the moment it still just brings tears to my eyes when I hear it. Whilst I don?t dislike any of the songs, the only problem I find with an artist like Cat Stevens is that his voice is so distinctive that it makes all his songs sound very similar, even though some of the songs are very folksie and others are quite popish. I?m led to believe that some of the tracks have been digitally remastered to improve the quality, but since I only listen to music through the crummy speakers on my laptop, so I can?t really speak about the quality of the tracks in this respect. For anyone who likes Cat Stevens and who doesn...

Fiver29 27.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Very Best Of Cat Stevens, The - Cat Stevens

Cats chase mice - or do they?

Advantages: Full of humour
Disadvantages: Story not wildly exciting

...Splat the Cat wakes up early on his first day at Cat School. He is worried about starting school and makes all sorts of excuses for not going: he's having a bad hair day, or the gate won't let go of his fingers. Mum, however, has an answer for everything, so he makes sure he has his pet mouse, Seymour, in his lunch box for company, and off they go. Arriving at school, Splat is welcomed by his teacher, the buxom Mrs Wimpydimple, another feline of course. The other cats in the class (who all seem to be grey whilst Splat is black) give Splat a friendly welcome. Mrs Wimpydimple begins her lesson about cats ? what else? - on the blackboard. When she mentions that cats chase mice, however, Splat wants to know why but doesn't let on that he has a pet one in his lunch box. Splat asks why so many times that Mrs Wimpydimple sighs and announces...

denella 29.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Splat the Cat - Rob Scotton

An Excellent Cat Food

Advantages: See Review
Disadvantages: Price

...Orijen cat and Kitten Dry Food: The last time I was browsing round the Zooplus website I noticed some ?Orijen? dry cat food which said it was suitable for adult cats and kittens of all breeds and that is was supposed to be exceptionally good for your cats health. I read a few of the reviews and decided to give Orijen a go. When the food arrived I was amazed by the ingredients, Tifa has never had it so good and is currently eating better than me! As the ingredients are so amazing I am going to include them in my review below. The food consists of 75% premium animal ingredients, (de-boned chicken, chicken meal, turkey meal, northern whitefish, chicken fat, de-boned turkey, salmon meal, salmon and anchovy oils, de-boned salmon, chicken broth and free-range eggs). The chicken and turkey are grain fed and the fish is wild...

donnabroom 22.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of HTZ ORIJEN Cat Food

The cat's out of the bag...

Advantages: For kids, pushes all the right buttons.
Disadvantages: None of note

...(Mrs Kwan) who keeps falling asleep and appears not to wake up, even though several things happen to her - such as being put on a coat hangar and placed in the cupboard. There are under strict order from 'Mom' (Kelly Preston) to keep the place tidy because, as a real estate agent, their mother is using their home that night for a party and her boss is very strict on tidiness and obsessed with cleanliness (he will sack anyone who shakes his hand). Next door is Quinn, played brilliantly by Alec Baldwin: a general slob and liar, but only Conrad seems to notice this - hence the fact Quinn wants to wed 'mom' and pack Conrad off to military school. As Quinn tells Conrad in private: "Oh, I think you're gonna love it! It's just like summer camp, except with brutal forced marches and soul-crushing discipline." While at home The Cat in the Hat...

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Review of The Cat In The Hat (DVD)

Killer cats

Advantages: Entertaining, easy to watch
Disadvantages: Hard to take the plot too seriously

...Professor Robert Miles lives in a picture-perfect English village, where he spends his time communing with the dead. He can also control his cat telepathically and uses this ability to wreak revenge on anyone who happens to annoy him. When people begin to die in mysterious ways, a Scotland Yard policeman arrives in the village, using the services of a passing American photographer to take photographs of the crime scenes. The American photographer notices scratch marks on both the Professor and the victims. Will she put two and two together and work out that the cat is responsible? And will anyone believe her if she tells them? Having read a number of reviews about horror films by an Italian director and writer called Lucio Fulci, I decided it was time I watched one of them myself. Perhaps because I have spent a large chunk of my life...

sunmeilan 13.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Black Cat (DVD)

The Cat Returns: Meow!

Advantages: Sweet, great artwork and voice acting.
Disadvantages: Slightly rushed inbetween.

...Rating: U - Contains very mild language and mild peril. Run Time: 74 minutes You can buy this for around £8 on Amazon and £10 + used or new on Ebay. The Cat Returns begins with schoolgirl, Haru, saving a cat from being run over by a truck. The cat is in fact the Prince of all cats in the Cat Kingdom, the King bestows upon her gifts to thank her but Haru finds out she is to be married to Prince Lune! A voice takes her to the Cat Bureau where the figurine cat, Baron, lives, Baron agrees to help her but the royal cats kidnap her and take Haru to the Cat Kingdom. As they get ready for the 'marvellous' wedding Baron and his friends race against the clock to save her, or else she'll be turned into a cat! Since I am a fan of most of Studio Ghibli's works, (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service,) this was a welcome...

Mistybrook 06.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Cat Returns (Animated) (Subtitled and Dubbed) (DVD)

The Cat is 52 (The Cat in the Hat - Dr Seuss)

Advantages: fun, anarchic, helps with reading, dynamic, reads well aloud
Disadvantages: none

...a way that can leave more traditionally minded parents flabbergasted at the complete nonsense that gets uttered. The genius of Dr Seuss lies in the fact that his books stay just about this side of sane, while retaining the free, rather manic, hyper quality of a child running high on their own creativity and laughter. "The Cat in a Hat" is amongst the relatively more conventional of Dr Seuss stories, in the sense that it actually has a clear storyline: the story involves two normal human children, in a normal house, and only when their mother goes out on a wet, boring day, the Seussian magic starts with the appearance of a certain Cat. The cat plays tricks, shows off, involves children; and finally lets out of a box two Things which bring the mayhem a few levels up. I love the fact that they are just called Things (Thing one and Thing...

magdadh 09.05.2009 · Read review
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Cat World TV, i-mag and magazine

Advantages: Everything cat related in one place - a magazine, an i-mag and TV
Disadvantages: None really you just need time to read

...If you are cat lover you can wallow in as much information as you could possibly want with the Cat World range of products. Cat World started out over 20 years ago as a magazine and it is still going strong in that format with many regular subscribers and loads of occasional readers who pick up the glossy magazine at newsagents or supermarkets. CAT WORLD TV Recently Cat World have introduced a couple of new developments recognising the expansion of IT into media generally. The most recent of these is Cat World TV. This was launched a couple of weeks ago and is currently free to view (I am not sure how long this offer will last). Cat World TV is a series of short interviews on film, with leading people in the cat arena, providing advice on breeding, health, cat care and general interest. It has to be said that the skills...

laramax 07.11.2006 · Read review
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