To make an appointment, call Halo, Purely for Pets in Palm Harbor at 787-4256. Phone Nature's Food Patch in Clearwater at 443-6703 or Nature's Harvest in Tampa at 873-7428.įrazier also will be doing private consultations while she's in town. and on Wednesday, she will be at Nature's Harvest, 1021 N MacDill Ave., Tampa at 7:30 p.m. On Tuesday, she'll be at Nature's Food Patch, 1408 Cleveland St., Clearwater at 7 p.m. (In addition to everything else, Frazier is a Hatha Yoga instructor.) That ranges from maintaining odor-free litter boxes to kitty massage. I wrote this book for all the people who are outside of New York and I didn't want to upset anyone with sad stories.'įrazier, 55, is in the Tampa Bay area to promote her books and to share her philosophy of holistic cat care as well as practical advice.

'I've found that cat lovers are sensitive people,' Frazier said, 'so these stories all have happy endings. It focuses on the different stages in a cat's life through a series of real-life stories about six cats Frazier has known. Whether truth or foolery, such advice seems likely to inspire a skeptical feline yawn.Ĭopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.Frazier also has been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Cats and Prevention magazines.įrazier and Eckroate also wrote another book together, a collection of cat tales called It's a Cat's Life, (Berkley Paperback, $7.50, 1991). (Describe in detail how his body is feeling).' Blinking is recommended as communications tool. They urge us to tell ailing pets, 'I know how you're feeling. Since 'the human mind is better equipped than the cat's for learning other languages,' they suggest that owners make a concerted effort to imagine how their cats feel being left at home for long periods. Frazier and Eckroate strain both credibility and prose. Frazier, a professional cat groomer and behaviorist, and writer Eckroate here update the manual they first published 10 years ago, because 'owners want to know about visualization, Bach flower remedies a form of homeopathy, interspecies communication and all manner of new and expanded home nursing techniques that can be applied to those wonderful cats and those who cherish them.' While the authors' views on cat nutrition and tips on how to become a savvy visitor of the veterinarian are persuasive, readers who cherish cats for their inscrutability and independent spirit-or who don't subscribe to what is probably best described as the authors' New Age outlook-will be better off choosing another handbook.

The new natural cat by anitra frazier