Lessons in Stalking:
A Collection by America's Cat Humorist 

If You Own A Cat You Must Own This Book

Got Cats?

Lessons In Stalking homes in on the wildly different responses the author and her long-suffering spouse have to a life shared with cats. Cotton mice found doing the dead man’s float in the water dish...5 AM wake-up calls...a “no-closed doors” policy...the cat declares a holy war when put on a diet. Anyone who owns a cat must own this book filled with derision, wit, and non-stop hilarity.

In no other cat book will you find such riveting accounts as:

  • The Great Cat Butt Wiping Adventure
  • Jingle Ball Horrors
  • The Creature Under the Fridge
  • Yoga Cat
  • The Big Brown Mouse & Other Toys Our Cat Loathes

Praise for Lessons in Stalking

“Dena Harris has written a cat book even a dog would love.”
—Tim Bete, former director of the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop 

“Never has watching someone else own a cat been this much fun.”
—Lisa Allmendinger, Editor, I Love Cats!

“Dena Harris magically captures the humor of sharing our lives with cats in a master storyteller’s style. You catch yourself laughing out loud as you read her words filled with whimsy and wit. She is simply meow-val-lous!
—Arden Moore, Celebrity Pet Expert and author of The Kitten Owner’s Manual 

“In these charming stories, Dena Harris shares with us her happy discoveries of cat nature in its many guises. This is a sweet book, filled with the author’s delight not only in her two young cats, but also in her husband and her home.”
– Marion Lane, Special Projects Editor, ASPCA National Programs Office

“Lessons In Stalking is for all cat lovers! Each story in this collection is a little gem...colored with a multi-faceted understanding of our feline friends...sparkling with the kitty humor that we all recognize and love...and polished with that passionate devotion to cats common to each of us.
– Ellen Price, Managing Editor, The World of Professional Pet Sitting

"Despite what you may have heard, cats are funny. They’re comedians, in fact, beginning in kittenhood with acrobatic slapstick. Adult cats enjoy more subtle forms of humor which, as Dena Harris makes as obvious as a toy mouse in a water bowl, promote us mere humans from lowly food servers in the kitty cafeteria to royal fools in the feline court. Harris is a funny lady with a hilarious take on the life of doting cat parents and their band of furry funsters. We may as well laugh at ourselves – our cats certainly do!"
– Sheila Webster Boneham, Ph.D., Author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting and Owning a Cat

“Dena Harris is very funny.”
– Annie, 11 years old, in a letter to the editor of Cats & Kittens magazine

“Another classic!!! What a gem!!! I laughed until I cried then reread it so I could laugh all over again. What a treat for cat lovers everywhere!”
– Fan e-mail