Name: Jenny Rossetto
E-mail: jefra_j@yahoo.com
Date posted: March 31, 2010 - 05:31 pm
Message: I have 9 cats that are my furbabies, each one of them is special to me. I've bought the book 2 days ago, and I've finished reading today. I LOVED it... so touching in so many ways...

Name: Joyce Bissell
E-mail: jojabi@comcast.net
Date posted: March 26, 2010 - 03:58 pm
Message: Hello Dr. Dosa,
I purchased your book on Oscar last week and am up to page 141 right now.
In the Fall of '98, after spending nearly the whole year in hospital with transverse myelitis (later being diagnosed with MS) a gol-colored cat began to hang around my home and one night it showed up in terrible condition. Well, my husband and I took him into the garage to keep him from our others and brought him to our vet the next day.
He was treated and neutered and we took him in as an indoor cat. We named him Squinty. He's enjoyed being an indoor cat ever since.
In the beginning of 2000, my husband suffered a stroke which resuled in paralysis on the left side.
I took him home by the end of the year and took care of him for 8and1/2 years after, while still working.
Dementia entered a couple years before his death, which was at home.
Squinty amazed the hospice people as he stayed with Lewis his last three days, only leaving his bed to eat or visit the litter pan.
Squinty is truly,yet,another extraordinary cat.

Name: Joy Rosenberger
E-mail: sewjoyfully@yahoo.com
Date posted: March 26, 2010 - 12:39 am
Message: I just finished your book in one sitting. Half the time I smiled and the other half I cried. My grandmother had dementia in the early 1960's and no nursing home would take her. She lived out the last years of her life in a state mental institution and we only visited there once. I was only in high school but I always have felt pain and guilt because I could not take care of her. She was the most precious person in my life, but she died alone, with no family present. More than loving Oscar, as I read your book, I felt hope for people suffering from dementia now. We have come a long way since the 60's. Your book enabled me to let go of the pain I have been carrying all these years about "abandoning" my Mema in that mental hospital. Now I can believe that someone there must have loved and cared for her too, the way the staff at Steere does for their patients and families. We have always had cats and they were "Oscars", sitting on the kids' beds when they were sick. I am going to see if we could have pets at the hospice where I volunteer! I never imagined that a book about a cat in Rhode Island could bring so much healing to my heart! Thank you, Dr. Dosa. Joy

PS I will be praying for you and the staff at Steere

Name: Evelin Knorr
E-mail: Private
Date posted: March 22, 2010 - 05:37 pm
Message: My husband, John, and I have had two tabby cats for 14 years now. Muffin decided he was my cat and sits in my lap every chance he gets. Buffy in turns would sit next to or on the arm of the chair where John was sitting. John has had cancer for the past 2-3 years. In December the Hospice program started coming to our house and we got a hospital bed. At first Buffy wasn't sure he like the change and stayed on our bed which was next to the hospital bed. On January 6 just over night John took a turn for the worse. Buffy started laying next to John's legs on the hospital bed. He stayed there almost constantly eating little, and he was the big eater of the two cats, and just getting up to use the litter box. We had to physically move him so we could turn my husband in bed and then Buffy was right back there again. He did that for 6 days until my husband passed away on the 11th. Our entire neighborhood and many many friends came to say goodbye to John and remarked how Buffy just stayed "glued" to John for the duration. Now every night Buffy lays next to me as I grieve until I fall asleep. If I get up in the night Buffy is back in his heated bed but is there right next to me when I get up. When I get particularly sad and end up crying both Buffy and Muffin come and lie next to me. They can be in a different room sleeping and if I am sitting in a chair or in the kitchen wherever they come. They are great angel comforters.

Name: Janre Hughes
E-mail: Private
Date posted: March 14, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Message: I have just read your book , and loved reading about Oscar. He is truly a beautiful cat! I am recommending the book to all my friends, whether they are cat lovers or not! Thank you for writing the story.