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It spawned two sequels, 101 More Uses for a Dead Cat and Uses of a Dead Cat in History, as well as calendars featuring the cartoons and even a book in response called The Cat's Revenge - More Than 101 Uses for Dead People. In 2006, a 25th anniversary edition of A Hundred and One Uses of a Dead Cat was published with a new foreword. [3]
Microbicide – an agent used to kill or reduce the infectiousness of microorganisms. Miticide – a chemical to kill mites. Nemacide (also nematicide, nematocide) – a chemical to eradicate or kill nematodes. Parasiticide – a general term to describe an agent used to destroy parasites. Pediculicide – an agent that kills head lice.
One of the apprentices imitated a cat by screaming like one for several nights, making the printer and his wife despair. Finally, the printer ordered the cats rounded up and dispatched. The apprentices did this, rounded up all the cats they could find, beat them half to death and held a 'trial'.
Francis the cat and his owner, Gustav, move into a poorly-maintained apartment with bad smells and rotting parquet flooring. Francis soon finds the corpse of another local cat, Sascha. Bluebeard, a deformed local cat, is convinced that a human ("can openers" in cat slang) was responsible for this death and other recent murders of cats.
Dewey Readmore Books (November 18, 1987 – November 29, 2006) was the library cat of the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library.Having been abandoned in the library's drop box in January 1988, he was adopted by the library and gained local attention for his story shortly thereafter.
A Cat Abroad; The Cat Inside; The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern; The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell; The Cat Who Saved Books; The Cat Who'll Live Forever; The Cat (novel) Cats of the Clans; Catseye (novel) La Chatte; A Clan in Need; Code of the Clans
Billy accepts Cat's offer. However, Billy has been growing increasingly fatalistic in the time leading up to the story, and originally offers to let Cat kill him with no struggle. Cat, a hunter, refuses, encouraging Billy to flee. Billy does so, but remains fatalistic, with Cat reading in his mind a wish to die and his foreknowledge of a final ...
Reviews of Hate That Cat have been positive including "Teachers will welcome both Jack’s poems and Creech’s embedded writing lessons." [2] and "Her writing style puts a story into poetic form and creates a book that appeals to reluctant readers and to children of all ages." [3] The book has also appeared on school reading lists. [4] [5] [6]