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With endearing humor and unabashed compassion, Willie Morris--a self-declared dog man and author of the classic paean to canine kind, My Dog Skip--reveals the irresistible story of his unlikely friendship with a cat. Forced to confront a lifetime of kitty-phobia when he marries a cat woman, Willie discovers that Spit McGee, a feisty kitten with one blue and one gold eye, is nothing like the foul felines that lurk in his nightmares.

For when Spit is just three weeks old he nearly dies, but is saved by Willie with a little help from Clinic Cat, which provides a blood transfusion. Spit is tied to Willie thereafter, and Willie grows devoted to a companion who won't fetch a stick, but whose wily charm and occasional crankiness conceal a fount of affection, loyalty, and a "rare and incredible intelligence." My Cat Spit McGee is one of the finest books ever written about a cat, and a moving and entertaining tribute to an enduring friendship.

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Morris follows up his popular My Dog Skip with this paean to the one cat he came to love. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
Charles Winecoff
In this remarkably engaging sequel to My Dog Skip, the confirmed "cat misanthrope"—who died last August—recounts how he did a pet 180, thanks to his feline-loving wife (a.k.a. "Cat Woman") and Spit McGee, a white kitten with mismatched eyes...Morris poignantly captures the deep, elusive kinship between man and kitty.

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The pleasurable confessions of a dog man gone ailurophile—that is, become a cat man—from Morris (The Ghosts of Medgar Evers, 1997, etc.).

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780375706936
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 11/28/2000
  • Edition description: First Vintage Books Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 160
  • Sales rank: 322,304
  • Series: Vintage Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.40 (d)

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Willie Morris died in 1999.        

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I would be sitting in my chair at the house at Northside and Normandy and his habit was to approach the chair, position himself between my feet and look up longingly at me. Then he would climb my leg into my lap. A dozen or more times a night he would do this. That was when I started trying seriously to talk to him, as he sat in my lap on these evenings. I would talk to him about my dogs Skip and Pete, or what I had done that day, or an Atlanta Braves game I was watching on TV, and he would stare at me, and blink his eyes, and make the incomprehensible movements of his tail and whiskers. This might suggest how radically far I had come, to be actually trying to converse with a kitten.

Then one night after playing outdoors, he did not come home. He was gone for several hours. I had read somewhere of the high mortality rates of kittens and young cats: killed by dogs, run over, lost far from home, wounded by sadistic Homo sapiens. We had purposefully decided to let him, as with his mother, Rivers Applewhite, go outdoors on his own, and now I was disturbed by that decision. He had almost died at birth, and then most certainly would have done so two weeks later had it not been for Clinic Cat, and this now was the third of a succession of traumas we would have with him over time. I walked from house to house in the neighborhood. I got in the car and roamed the vicinity looking for him. I remembered with lucid anathema how Skip had disappeared in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1944, and Pete in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1982, and I wanted none of that now. When I was getting down to writing about this, the Cat Woman reminded me of the episode in searing particulars: "You wouldn't speak to me. You told me it was my fault because I'd gotten you involved with a damned cat and you couldn't deal with him. You said you didn't begin to understand cats and were sick and tired of them. You closed yourself in your room. Just like anytime anything happened to one of our cats later on, you were nuts. And you, the cat hater! We'd given up on Spit. Late that night, we were crying and discussing all the details of his short little life."

And then, right in that instant, we heard a faint noise outside the front window. It sounded like meeow. I went to the window. And there was Spit McGee.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 26, 2007

    What a way to change a person

    Spit McGee changes an all-time dog-lover-cat-hater into a dog-lover-cat-lover.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 29, 2011

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    Wonderful insight into how cats become a part of life

    Just a fast comment here. I really liked this little book. It follows a confirmed dog man's journey into the wonderful adventure that comes from having a special cat in your life.
    Spit is a great cat of course. Just like many cats sitting in shelters now awaiting a forever home.
    A great book for confirmed cat lovers, and, those who for whatever reason, have chosen to stay away from these enriching, loving, partners on this planet.
    As fall approaches I say get this book and sit reading as cold nights fall, hopefully with a cat in your lap.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 8, 2004

    A great & touching book

    A former Cat Hater myself, this book is delightful and a real page-turner. I read it in 4 hours and it reminded me of my old cats!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 24, 2002

    Calling all Ailurophiles!

    What a wonderful book! I highly recommend it for all animal lovers and potential animal lovers. It is a wonderful story about how a man did a complete turn about for love. This is a warm and affectionate story. So cuddle up with your little bundle of fur and settle in for a wonderful, transforming read.

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