Felidae - Special U.S. Edition

wild attacks of their beloved. It triggers an automatic reaction, the so-called "impregnation paralysis”, which goes back to infancy. Feeling the "carrying grip" of their mothers, young cats become motionless. It is necessary so that the mother can carry away its children in dangerous situations without the kittens getting "wild”. As cats age, this instinctive reaction partly, but not completely, disappears. The male cat who grips the neck fur of his randy sexual partner between his teeth thus has the greatest chance of turning her into a submissive kitten, such as she was in the jaws of her mother. Without this "hypnotic" trick, male cats would get quite a few more bloody noses than they already do in their amorous play.

13. The notion that domesticated cats can kill one another has a foundation in fact. In their fights, which are not infrequently uncontrollably wild, the combatants can indeed inflict fatal wounds on each other. Although cat fights are relatively rare in the wilderness because it is easier to get out of each other's way there, the narrow confines of the city often cause quarrels, particularly between rival toms.

An attacking cat normally tries to bite the neck of its opponent fatally, an attack which is meant for predators. The cat does this with visibly mixed feelings because it will face bitter resistance. True combat is often preceded by impressive mutual threatening gestures; if one of the fighters does finally deliver the deadly bite, the other counters with its front paws and attacks its enemy with extended, razor-sharp claws. At the same time he makes him feel the power of his powerful back paws. In the fury of such a duel, when the fighters, hissing at each other, roll over, turn, and rough each other up, it may very well happen that one animal gets killed or suffers injuries from which it later dies.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Akif Pirinçci

Pirinçci was born on the 29th April 1959 in Istanbul. He began to write fiction at a young age, and published his first novel Tränen sind immer das Ende (literally meaning "tears always are the end") in 1980, at the age of 21. His next literary work, published in 1989, was the novel Felidae, a work of crime fiction with cats as the main protagonists. The novel has been translated into 17 languages and became an international bestseller. Due to the enormous success of the novel, Pirinçci expanded his concept of "cat crime fiction" and published several sequels to Felidae, out of which only one, namely Felidae on the road (Felidae II), has been translated into English. An animated movie based on Felidae, the script of which had been co-written by Pirinçci, has been produced in Germany in 1994, and was also dubbed in English. Pirinçci has published several other novels which were not set in the fictional reality of the Felidae series. He had a big success with his fantastic thriller "The Door" which was made into a German moving picture and will be remade by Hollywood.

Pirinçci currently lives in Bonn, the former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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