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• To Catch a Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me ( memoir) Berkley Books (New York, NY), 2016

1. To catch a cat : how three stray kittens rescued me LCCN 2016005368 Type of material Book Personal name Green, Heather, 1967- , author. Main title To catch a cat : how three stray kittens rescued me / Heather Green. Edition Berkley trade paperback edition. Published/Produced New York : Berkley Books, 2016. Description 253 pages ; 21 cm ISBN 9780425281987 CALL NUMBER SF450 .G74 2016 CABIN BRANCH Copy 1 Request in Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms - STORED OFFSITE

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  Heather Green
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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Heather Green is a freelance writer and former journalist. For twelve years, she covered the Internet and digital media for BusinessWeek, winning awards including the New York Press Club Crystal Gavel and the Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York. She wrote numerous cover stories on subjects from social media to e-commerce, pioneered using blogs, podcasts, and Twitter at BusinessWeek, and appeared on national TV stations, including CNN, CNBC, and the BBC. Prior to BusinessWeek, she worked for Bloomberg where she launched their Internet beat and at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. She has a BA from the University of Virginia and a graduate degree from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. To Catch a Cat is her first book.

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• Heather Green Home Page - https://www.heathergreenmedia.com/what-we-do/

  Writer and analyst with extensive experience in technology, business, and environmental issues.

  I am an analytical thinker who works with some of the biggest companies in the world to find the best ways to tell their stories. I create original, compelling content that informs and persuades. Previously, I was an award-winning journalist based in the New York headquarters of BusinessWeek, writing and editing cover and feature stories that explored the evolution and business of technology. I've written for a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and the International Herald Tribune. In 2016, Penguin published my first book, To Catch a Cat, a memoir about rescuing cats in the wilds of New Jersey.

  ON A PERSONAL NOTE

  I live outside of Washington, DC with my husband, my daughter, and two rescue cats. We're long-time New Yorkers who are now embracing a life filled with horses, flowers, and bees. My husband works at Anderson Architects and is building a home for us on a hill with a view of very old bank barn.

  I got my first shot at being a journalist in Paris, where I wrangled a part-time job as an editorial assistant at the International Herald Tribune. I mostly did grunt work, things that now sound like they’re from an ancient culture, such as cutting out articles from the paper and filing them in tiny drawers in a library so the reporters could consult them for research. Then, I got a story published. After seeing my name in print in a major publication, I was hooked.

  Determined to launch my career, I left France for a job at Bloomberg News in Princeton, NJ. For a few months, I wondered why I had been so monumentally stupid. But I started covering the Internet and I loved it. It was 1995. No one had a clue what the “World Wide Web” was. Two years later, I moved to BusinessWeek, where I had a fabulous run reporting on the Internet and later on green energy. Full circle, in 2009 Bloomberg bought BusinessWeek and I decided it was time to head out on my own.
  EXPERIENCE

  Independent Consultant, 2010-present

  Projects include research papers, bylined articles, and interactive features for corporations and non-profits including IBM, McKinsey, Ceres, The New York Times T Brand Studio, and venture capital backed startups.

  Associate Editor, BusinessWeek, New York, NY, 1997-2009

  Covered wide range of technology trends including social media, mobile, the Internet of Things, analytics, and cloud computing. Established BusinessWeek as a thought leader on the transformative power of social media by writing feature and cover stories about social networking. Contributed to the magazine’s pioneering coverage on green business and policy. Managed and generated story ideas from 25 reporters in bureaus in the U.S. and internationally.

  Reporter, Bloomberg News, Princeton, NJ, 1994-1997

  Created Internet beat at financial newswire, covering Yahoo, Amazon, and Netscape when they were startups. Wrote features and breaking news stories as the business models around Internet search, e-commerce, and online advertising were being developed.

  Editorial Assistant, International Herald Tribune, Paris, France, 1991-1993

  Contributed to a number of sections of the English-language daily newspaper, including the political affairs and editorial departments. Handled research for news stories for staff reporters and editors.

  Freelance Journalist, Paris, France, 1990-1991

  Wrote for Variety, the weekly entertainment magazine, about French cinema and American films overseas. Conducted research and interviews of doctors and patients for award-winning Associated Press bureau chief on book about the day after abortion pill, which was developed in France.

  EDUCATION

  Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paris, France, Master’s degree, Political Science

  University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., BA, Comparative Literature

• Paw Culture - http://www.pawculture.com/get-inspired/pet-rescue-stories/heather-green-author-qa/

  Q&A with Author Heather Green, Cat Rescue Extraordinaire
  The author talks about her new book, “To Catch A Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me.”
  By: Adrienne Samuels Gibbs

  Author Heather Green
  Journalist-turned-author Heather Green fostered a few lost kittens and found herself in the process. She documents her life-affirming journey in her new book, “To Catch A Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me.” Along the way she learned to trust others, found love and realized that life was bigger than her job. Plus, she found her new calling: saving strays.

  Saving cats and finding love and community in the process is the thru-line of her book. Green started her journey after discovering three, six-week-old kittens living in the abandoned land next to her boyfriend’s house. The couple initially wanted to catch the kittens to save them but then found out the litter was too young to be separated from their mother. After realizing that they had no idea how to “rescue” cats, they went on a fact-finding mission that turned into a mission of responsibility and eventually, a passion project.

  They talked with vets to get tips, and met others in the cat community along the way. Green found herself thinking about the cats while she was at work (she used to be a reporter for BusinessWeek.) They named the cats – Oona (the mother) and Zero, Two Spot and Number Three. They discovered that each had a personality, and a look. Their care also encouraged Green to spend more time at her boyfriend’s house – something she’d been avoiding for quite some time. (Spoiler alert: Eventually, they married.)

  Green, who now lives in Virginia, shares her thoughts on how, through her book, she hopes to redirect the rescue narrative. Here’s what else she had to say.

  PawCulture:So, would you say the best way for a person to find a spouse is to rescue cats in New York or in Jersey?

  Heather Green: Well, that’s what happened. I wasn’t looking. I didn’t think I needed to have a husband to make me happy. But rescuing the cats showed me that I can actually open up to somebody and commit to somebody and be vulnerable with somebody and that can be pretty great. That was kind of the moral of the story. Up until then I had my life going the way I had established it and it was work, work, work, work. I hadn’t really looked at anything outside of work for any kind of meaning. Lo and behold, there’s a pretty great life out there if you open yourself up to it.

  Rescuing the cats showed me that I can actually open up to somebody and commit to somebody and be vulnerable with somebody and that can be pretty great.
  PC:How do you learn how to rescue cats? Any tips for new rescuers?

  HG: At the beginning, we made tons of mistakes. When we started it was ten years ago before you could look everything up online. What’s really changed a lot is how networked everybody is on Instagram or Pinterest or Facebook. You can find help or advice so much more quickly than you ever did before. You can also cross reference it and find out if it’s the right advice. For example, there are people online who are now showing people how you can take care of neo natal kittens. It’s something everybody can do. There’s been a push in making it much more supportive and possible for other people.

  PC:How do you know if a feral cat is too wild? Can you still adopt it out?

  HG: Some cats we found homes for and some we fixed and had to put back out because they were too wild. They were feral. The rule of thumb is up to three months old you can very easily and very quickly socialize them or tame them. After that, it becomes much harder and you have to look at them on a case-by-case basis. Ask [yourself]: does it hiss at you? Will it let you touch it? Those kinds of things will let you know whether it’s adoptable. Mostly with older cats it’s pretty clear that they are feral if they’ve been out all their lives. They’ll hiss at you, back up, won’t look at you or won’t get out of the cage.

  PC:How many cats do you own?

  HG: We’re down to two. The number of cats we had owned was five. The other three have unfortunately gotten old and died. Right now we’re renting a place so we can’t take in any more. Once we move to a new place we’re going back into fostering. We’ve rescued or fixed around 150. I have no idea how many I’ve trapped.

  PC:How do you change the narrative of cat rescue?

  HG: I wanted to write a really funny book. Cat rescue can be pretty dark. But I think that’s there a good movement in that rescues nowadays can focus on the good part of this rather than the Sarah McLachlan, big eyes part of it. It was important for me to find a lot of good friends who kept the focus on the good part of it. If you have a network of people you don’t feel overwhelmed.

  PC:Is it hard to give them up after fostering?

  HG: It was really hard at the very beginning because we were so attached to them. You think there’s never anybody who will be as good with these kittens as you are. But yes, there are other people who will love these cats more than you. You don’t have enough time for them because you’re focused on rescuing cats and these other people are going to be focused on loving the cats. You learn to trust other people with your cats. Over time it became so much easier.

  PC:Any do’s and don’ts for cat rescue and fostering?

  HG: If you see a litter of kittens, don’t automatically think that they are abandoned. Watch them and see if the mother shows up. Kittens shouldn’t be taken away from their mothers before they’re six weeks old. They need their mother’s milk and it’s really hard to take care of kitten before that. Also, you don’t have to rescue a cat for yourself. You can tell people about that cat if you see it in need.

  Do try your hardest to find a home [for a cat] yourself because 40 percent of cats that end up in shelter are euthanized. And do get connected online on social media with other groups if you’re going to rescue. They’ll help you to no end. And, if you do rescue a cat or kitten, keep it in an enclosed space for the first few days until you figure out. The way to socialize a cat is to have it in an enclosed space and feed it and little by little it’ll get to like you.

  PC:Any veterinary tips?

  HG: If you rescue a cat, you have to take it in right away because it might have parasites and diseases and it should get shots right away. There are a lot more low cost services now. Frankly, if you have a good vet they’ll work with you on costs most of the time. Also, through social networking or your friends you can find a place that might be cheaper– especially when it comes to spaying or neutering, it will help you avoid certain behaviors you don’t like and help avoid unwanted pregnancies or animals having accidents and getting hurt outside. There are plenty of low cost places to find. It just takes a little digging but they’re out there.

  Images: Courtesy Heather Green

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  Q&A
  The first pictures of Two Spot, Number Three, and Zero.
  The first pictures of Two Spot, Number Three, and Zero.

  How did you get into cat rescuing?

  Kicking and screaming. Ok, not actually. But I never gave a second thought to cat rescuing before spotting some kittens in an abandoned backyard. I think we’ve all have seen cats outside at different points in our lives. Most of us don’t react by saying “Hey, I have to rescue that cat.”

  Why did you decide to do something this time?

  It was a Saturday in June. I was spending the weekend at my boyfriend’s place in Union City, NJ. His cat Teevee was wandering around in the backyard of his house when she made an unexpected discovery—three little wild kittens were living in the next-door neighbor’s yard. I went outside to check them out and at first I saw nothing. But then this head pops up out of the grass. This was the kitten we’d come to call Number Three. He was bold, curious, and cute. He was, of course, adorable. I mean, he was a kitten, for goodness sakes. But he was wild, so what struck me was that he didn’t run off at the sight of me. He just settled down and studied me, trying to figure out what I was. I was transfixed. I realized right there that he could be saved. And if it didn’t do it, who would?

  Is that what your book is about, responsibility?

  It’s about connection. Rescuing cats forced me to connect: to a place, to another person, and to myself. The unexpected links I forged through caring about those first three kittens helped propel me towards the most common and daunting project we all face: figuring out what I wanted from life.

  How did you rescue the kittens?

  We started first by feeding the kittens. There were three of them and their mother living in that overgrown, abandoned backyard. We named the kittens Number Three, Two Spot, and Zero and the mother Oona. After feeding the little family for four weeks, we trapped the three kittens, tamed them, and found them homes. That all sounds easy now to me. But because we were novices, we learned everything every single step of the way.

  Where did you start?

  The first big question was if we should catch them right away. The answer was no. These three babies were four or five weeks old. When kittens are young, under 6 weeks of age, it’s best to leave them with the mother. It was a risk, because Oona might have moved them. But we bet that that if we fed them, she’d stick around. Which she did--though after pretty traumatic event involving machetes and a BBQ, she ended up moving them into my boyfriend’s back yard.

  How did you catch them when they were old enough?

  We couldn’t just grab them. They were too fast. And though they were tiny, their little teeth and claws were sharp! We used a trap, like the groundhog traps people use. The secret to cat rescuing is food. We had to get our little family on a regular schedule, feeding them every day. Then a day before our trapping D-day, we didn’t feed them to get them hungry. We had to bait the trap with a plate of smelly tuna. But with the kittens, we wanted to make sure we got all three into the trap at once. Matt sat next to the trap and moved the plate inside bit by bit as they ate, so that they all moved into the trap together.

  What was the secret to taming them?

  Food! Especially chicken baby food. We only fed them when we were with them in the enclosure. We’d sit down on the floor, put the food plate next to us, and they’d have to come up to us.

  Were their personalities different?

  They may have been brothers, but they were all so different. Number Three, the first one I’d spotted in the neighbor’s yard, was the bravest and the boldest. He was the first to become friendly and the first to learn to purr when we petted him. He had a huge personality. Two Spot was lanky and skittish. He had a trick of jump straight up in the air whenever he was scared. Yet, little by little, he began to want to be near Matt and me. He was secretly my favorite. Zero was drop-dead handsome and the kind of kitten you’d want to baby. But he was so aloof. He was smaller than his brothers and always stuck close to Oona. Zero was the hardest to tame.

  Was it hard when you gave them up?

  It was awful. Over those three months of feeding them, worrying about them outside, spending all that time taming them, we came to love them very much. They changed my life, made me decide for myself what I wanted my everyday life to be like. But every cat needs its own home, its own human family.

  You say it changed you, how?

  Before the cats, I was single and successful as a journalist at one of the top financial magazines in the U.S., living in one of the most competitive and exciting cities in the world. I was fairly happy. But I realized once we took on the cat project that I was operating in a safe sphere. I was doing what other people thought was successful. I'd never learned to take real risks in a relationship. I'd never felt like I could be truly responsible for another being besides myself.

  You say you found love through rescuing cats? Were you unhappy being single?

  After moving fifteen times in my life, I decided in my early 30s to put down roots in Manhattan. I had reached a point where I was happy being single. Naturally, that’s when I met Matt, the kind of thoughtful, funny, steady person I’d never been able to commit to before. I was torn. I had made this decision to set down roots, but Matt lived in Union City, New Jersey. Our differences at points seemed huge. So, for 18 months after meeting him, I didn’t really commit. But then the kittens came along.

  And you found a community?

  Actually, two communities. The first were the cast of characters who lived on Matt’s block. I was living in Manhattan before this and Matt was living in Union City, NJ. It’s a dilapidated town. It used to have small embroidery mills, but those are long gone. Now it’s a working class neighborhood made up of bus drivers, nurses, construction workers. It wasn’t shiny or buzzy and I wanted nothing to do with the place before the cats. But I came to really love it, to appreciate all the people on the block. The other community was the cat rescue folks. You think of cat people as loners, but forget that stereotype. Rescue work means finding people who can help you. People who’ll lend you traps, help you trap, foster kittens, help you find homes, raise money for you. Everyone is motivated by a fundamental drive—wanting to help these helpless animals. I met some of the most loyal people I know through cat rescuing.

  What’s the happiest cat story that happened to you?
  Sweet, crazy Cottonball
  Sweet, crazy Cottonball

  The best part of rescuing is the kittens. Ok, after a while, you start to dread finding another litter. But as soon as you catch them, you’re hooked one more time. In 2014, a woman showed up on my doorstep at 9 at night with a 1 ½ week old kitten. His mother had moved his two siblings and left him behind. I didn’t want him either, but I had no choice! You have to feed 2, 3, 4-week old kittens every 2 or 3 hours with a baby bottle and special milk. It’s exhausting. He was a little gray thing with a white chin. We named him Cottonball and he was an adorable terror. But the best part was that four weeks later, I was able to track down and trap him brother, an orange tabby we named Carrot. They adopted together.

Kitty Litter
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To Catch a Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me

Heather Green. Berkley, $16 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-28198-7

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Discovering a feral cat and its kittens in her boyfriend Matt's backyard in New Jersey inadvertently sets Green, a journalist, on a path to self-discovery as she becomes a cat rescuer. Green, the daughter of an Air Force pilot, had mastered the art of moving and never becoming deeply attached to places or people. Saving three kittens, however, upends her carefully arranged life as a writer for Businessweek, living in Manhattan and spending weekends with Matt. Gaining the trust of the kittens, socializing them, and tending to them forces Green to engage in a way she had never done before. Green reconsiders her own approach to life and slowly begins to trust others. Combining her tale of rescue with stories of people who save feral cats, Green shows readers the transforming powers of patience and commitment. (July)

"Kitty Litter." Publishers Weekly, 12 Sept. 2016, p. 50+. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA464046303&it=r&asid=2cdb4b5b2fbbb1534a4310fb70018824. Accessed 11 June 2017.

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  July 29, 2016
  Review: To Catch a Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me
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  I love memoirs about cats that change their humans’ lives. I’ve had a few of these life changing cats in my own life, so I know just how much these furry angels in disguise can impact our lives. In To Catch a Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me, journalist Heather Green shares her story of how three stray kittens that showed up in her boyfriend’s yard not only led to her becoming involved in a world of trapping, vet visits and kitten taming, but also helped her find her place in the world.

  From the publisher:

  Journalist Heather Green was finally putting down roots: in shiny, buzzing Manhattan. She loved her work and threw herself into sixty-hour weeks—once walking into a subway pole, getting a concussion, and still going to the office. Her new boyfriend Matt lived across the river in a New Jersey town that had none of the glamour of New York. She liked Matt—a lot—yet she wasn’t sure what to make of weekends in gritty, dilapidated Union City.

  But things changed the summer morning Heather discovered a beautiful stray cat and her three black-and-white kittens in Matt’s neighbor’s backyard. When she made eye contact with one of the kittens, she felt something she’d never felt before. She and Matt had to save the little animals. Because if they didn’t, who would?

  This is as much a story about rescuing and socializing feral kittens as it is a story about one woman’s journey of figuring out what she wanted out of life. Green lived the typical Manhattan lifestyle: thriving career, sixty-hour work week and a new boyfriend. For all intents and purposes, she was living the dream. And yet, she felt like something was missing.

  When she started spending weekends at her boyfriend’s house in much less glamorous Union City, New Jersey, just across the Hudson river, she struggled with the idea of ever becoming comfortable in this rundown town. And yet, as she began to help the tiny kittens, things started to shift for her.

  This heart touching story about how someone’s life was changed by three tiny kittens made me smile, sometimes laugh out loud, and also cry at times. Beautifully and honestly told, this book is sure to resonate with anyone whose life has been affected by loving cats.

  To Catch a Cat is available from Amazon and everywhere books are sold.

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  TO CATCH A CAT: HOW THREE STRAY KITTENS RESCUED ME (BOOK REVIEW)
  POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2016 BY TAMAR
  To Catch a Cat: How Three Stray Kittens Rescued Me is a memoir written by former journalist Heather Green about a time in her life when she was a single – albeit with a boyfriend – career woman living and working in New York City who was ostensibly “rescued” by kittens. How could I resist?

  From the start it’s clear Heather knows my hometown (NYC) and has the attitude to prove it. She goes to work despite suffering a concussion bashing her head into a subway pole and views New Jersey – where her boyfriend Matt resides – much like Iowa in proximity and her lack of desire to visit (a situation for which Manhattanite’s have coined the phrase “geographically undesirable”).

  Heather Green

  While having grown up with an array of animals, the world of feral cats and cat rescue were knew to her. Then one day, she and Matt (her now husband) saw three tiny kittens with their mom in a neighbor’s backyard in New Jersey. Suddenly Heather found herself spending more and more time at Matt’s apartment as she became increasingly invested in these three fragile lives and that of their protective mom.

  And so, Heather began her journey into the world of cat rescue. This litter of kittens named Zero, Number Two and Number Three (based on the number of spots they each had) would be the first of many she and Matt would trap and adopt out, or TNR (trap neuter release). The experience of “catching,” and caring for and finding homes for these kittens taught her quite a bit about herself and the man she went through this learning experience with.

  When asked about the impact these three kittens had on her life, Heather replied:

  They took me outside of a routine that I’d gotten into because of other peoples’ expectations. They showed me that I could figure out what I wanted out of life for myself. I was an influential writer at one of the most important business magazines in the world. That was how I defined myself. But after the kittens, I realized I could be a writer, but also be other things, like a good neighbor and a rescuer and someone who took time to spend with and think about this guy I loved.

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  Zero, Number Two, Number Three
  Reading this well written, easy to read book, I felt like I was right there with Heather as her feelings towards her then boyfriend Matt solidified. I told her I got the sense she fell more in love with Matt watching his behavior with the cats and seeing the lengths he went for them knowing how important they were to her. She responded:

  Well that’s exactly how I would put it. Watching him with the cats, seeing what he would do for me because I was so worried and wanted so much to help the cats made me realize how much he wanted to be there for me, to support me, even if he wasn’t totally convinced at the beginning that rescuing the cats (or rather us novices rescuing the cats) was the best thing for them. Remember, we had no experience with rescue, so we didn’t know that this was the best thing to do.

  He accepted that this was something that was important to me, even if he didn’t understand what motivated this drive in me. I learned so much about acceptance from watching him help me. I also learned about just relaxing and being in the moment by watching him with the kittens. I was all about trying to get it right with them, doing the perfect thing for them, and he was just enjoying being in the moment with some crazy cute kittens! I came to love that so much about him and also that he didn’t judge me for not being able, at least initially, to just relax and be in the moment.

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  Heather with Oona, Mom to the first litter of kittens she ever rescued, who lives with her, Matt and their daughter to this very day.
  And of course I just had to ask the million dollar question. How did these kittens save her?

  They taught me that I could handle responsibility for another being’s life. I never really committed to anything for long before rescuing these cats. Growing up an Air Force brat, I moved around all the time so what I was good at was change and moving. They showed me I could sit and be and accept, rather than trying always to control and arrange things. Trying to exert control is exhausting, not to mention illusiory!

  So if you’re looking for an uplifting, honest, thoughtful book about cats with a relatable protagonist, check out To Catch A Cat. My only suggestion for improving it would be to include a section with photos – maybe for the second printing!

  If you’ve already read the book, we’d love to hear what you thought about it!

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  TO CATCH A CAT REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY
  by JANET BLUE on JULY 11, 2016
  To Catch a cat book jacket.Though I love cats and kittens, I never thought I could fall in love with a mother cat (Oona) and her three kittens sight unseen. But that is exactly what happened when I read Heather Green’s book, To Catch a Cat. The book interweaves the story of Heather’s and boyfriend Matt’s first foray into kitten rescue and socialization and Heather’s memoir. You learn the intimate details of Heather’s fears, foibles and perceived shortcomings all while meeting and falling head over paws for kittens, Zero, Two Spot and Number Three.

  The story begins when Matt and Heather discover three tiny kittens living in Matt’s neighbor’s backyard in Union City, New Jersey. Manhattanite and workaholic Heather and laid-back architect Matt take on the task of rescuing these kittens. First Matt builds an outdoor shelter for mom and babies. Then the waiting for the right time to capture the kittens begins. Once the kittens become indoor residents, the socialization process starts and continues until just the right homes are found for the three. During this process, Matt and Heather learn about feral cats and trapping and Heather learns about herself.

  This is a book you don’t want to miss. It is definitely for anyone who has ever loved or rescued a cat, but it is also for every animal (regardless of species) fan or caregiver. This uplifting story of discovery, love, devotion and emotional growth will touch your heart.

  My only complaint was the lack of photos in the book. But do not let that keep you from reading To Catch a Cat. Head over to @ToCatchaCat on Facebook to see photos and videos of these darlings as well as photos of other kitties saved by Heather and Matt.

  To Catch a Cat
  Heather Green and mom cat Oona
  Heather Green is an award-winning journalist and free lance writer. For 12 years she covered the Internet and digital media for BusinessWeek and has appeared on CNN, CNBC and BBC. This is her first book.

  The best part of this post comes in the way of a giveaway for this gem of a book. I have three copies to give to our readers. As I am doing the mailing, I will ship worldwide. That means, everyone can enter. To do so, please leave a comment on this post no later than 5 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 16. Winners will be selected using Random.org.

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