I think people who keep wild animals as "pets" need to be stuffed into cages.

You might want to skip a few sections of chapter 6 too. There are bits in here I could have done without reading.

Similar to Italy, cats and humans also have a symbiotic relationship in Greece that's totally different from the way things are done in North America (and the better part of the rest of Europe). Cats are appreciated as biologic vermin control and as companions, but they are rarely "domesticated" -- they're fed and basically allowed to wander wherever they please. (And boy, they are *everywhere.*) If you don't own one of Hans Silvester's books of cats photographed in the Kyklades islands yet, there's something seriously missing from your library. And I can testifry from personal experience (though gained in Crete) that these images are *not* saccharined-up. This *is* exactly what you'll find, and I have plenty of photos of my own -- though obviously not as professional ones -- to back it up.