Imagine walking into a room where two cats are seemingly engaged in heavy conversation. They freeze, fall silent and glance at each other. And you know they've been talking about you. Or you turn on the blender, the top unsecured, and as your feline companions watch, split peas fly around the room like bullets. The cats shake their heads in seeming disbelief. Are the reactions we perceive real or imagined? If only there were way to get inside a cat's mind...

When the authors discovered a stack of computer disks containing what appeared to be unreadable files, they tossed them aside. Upon closer examination, however, the text revealed patterns. A linguist confirmed their suspicions and proclaimed that their cats, Cleo and Tyrone, had been communicating with each other via e-mail. The topics were exclusively confined to the world as they knew it: trips to the vet, culinary tips, vanishing acts and, of course, plans and schemes to meet.