CAT LOVERS, you are in for a treat. In this book, Jim Colet entertains you with numerous tales about cats that have graced his life. You’ll meet Coors, who became a campus celebrity at the University of California at Berkeley in the turbulent 1960s. Meiling, who apparently had a built-in GPS system. Rollo, the cat whose curiosity almost killed him. The tiny but super-confident Maggie and her mate Mauwi. Bee-Bop, a kitten whose best friend and body guard was a dog named Amity. And many more. Most of their stories are comical; some are side-splittingly funny; some are poignant. Jim’s love for cats has led him to have approximately fifty feline roommates throughout his life sharing his household and con-scripting him to clean their litter boxes.

Jim was inspired to write this book while remembering some hilarious episodes from the early 1970s, when he and his first wife had the zany and lucrative idea of turning their home into a boardinghouse for other people’s cats. Thus the Cat House was born. Almost all the incidents recounted in these pages actually occurred; about two percent are Jim’s cat-fancy embellishments. You will laugh and you may even cry, but you will be entertained as you become intimately acquainted with the many furry friends Jim has known over the years.

JIM COLET, now retired, lives near Okoboji, Iowa, with his wife Michelle. They share their lives with four house cats and three dogs.