Dr Raphaella Bilski

My Street Cats: Their Personality & Social Behavior Dr Raphaella Bilski

They live beside us. They need our help and attention to survive. Most of us accept their presence without questioning it. Some of us ignore them entirely and some of us give them food and water. These are the street cats. But what do we actually know about them? This book shows readers the special, interesting world of street cats and focuses on one community over about fourteen years of observation. Here you will read about their social life, the hierarchy that exists in their community, their leaders, and various social behaviors. Readers will also discover heroic feline acts, the wonderful friendships that exist between these cats, their very special patterns of motherhood, and more. This book will turn the street cat who for most readers is just an anonymous animal lurking near garbage cans into a familiar animal who is both intriguing and loved. Raphaella Bilski is a member of the department of political science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. She specializes in modern political philosophy, welfare, social policy, and the subject of happiness. She is the author of Every Individual, a King: The Political and Social Thought of Ze?ev Vladimir Jabotinsky (Dvir, Tel Aviv, and B?nai B?rith Books, New York), for which she received the Jabotinsky Prize. She is also the author of The Lure of Happiness (Carmel, Jerusalem). She was a director at the Van Leer Foundation (1977?1980) and a social and welfare policy advisor to Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Yitzhak Shamir, and Shimon Peres. From 1990 to 1992 she began taking care of a community of street cats living in her garden and has based this book on fourteen years of observation. She continues to take care of street cats and is about to write a second book on this subject.