Friday, March 11, 2016

Bad Kitty Goes to the Vet

It's often a challenge getting one of my cats to the vet (a broken lamp springs to mind) so it's easy to sympathize with Bad Kitty's owner in the latest addition to the Bad Kitty canon. Feeling under the weather, Kitty has been refusing her kibble, a sure sign of feline distress. Her strength rebounds, however, when it's time for her to go into her carrier. As always, Bruel has a sure hand with slapstick and readers will howl as Kitty and her owner battle it out. At last she's inside and it's off to the vet.

In perhaps one of the more unusual plot advances in a chapter book, Kitty is sedated to have a tooth extracted and travels to the cat version of the Pearly Gates. Refused entrance because of her past misdeeds to poor Puppy, Kitty is given 24 hours to redeem herself. All she has to do is perform one act of unconditional kindness to Puppy. This proves harder than expected and it comes down to the final seconds. Will Kitty gain admittance to Pussycat Paradise or will she land in Puppydog Paradise and be chased and bitten for all eternity? Or is her predicament just a dream?

Bruel keeps the action rolling and Kitty's fate up in the air till the end. Along with providing a rip roaring story, the book has several of Uncle Murray's fun fact sheets, which give tips such as how to tell if your cat is sick and explains what vets are and what they do.

Bad Kitty Goes to the Vet
by Nick Bruel
Roaring Book Press  144 pages
Published: January, 2016

2 comments:

  1. Q: why do cats attempt2climb trees?
    A: most of em have a spaceport in
    SEVENTH-HEAVEN which is a policy of
    their adjacent subspace: dont all dogs go to Heaven, too? Ta-da.

    Earthling...
    Q: You gonna live forever?
    A: Yes, depending on where.
    Q: How long do our lifetimes last?
    A: 1-outta-1 bites-the-dust, child.

    When our eternal soul leaves our body
    and we riseabove to meet our Maker,
    only four, last things remain:
    death, judgement, Heaven or Hell
    according to the deeds WEE mortals
    have done in our finite existence.
    So... find-out what RCIA is and join!

    PS° Im a re-boot NDE:
    if you're RIGHT,
    you'll see the LIGHT.
    Follow that to the Elysian Fields;
    let's be tethered2forever Upstairs.

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    1. [yawn]
      Yeah, Im weeerd...
      yet, earth isnt my Home.

      Meet me Upstairs someday.
      Let's git a BIG-OL-BEER.
      Gotta lotta tok about
      as we provide the synopsis
      for 77ish nonillion novels.
      After that, dear, I gotta mountain bike

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