The Cat Operator’s Manual:
Getting the Most from Your New Cuddle Unit
by Queen Olivia III
Chronicle Books | pub date: March 18, 2025
Publisher’s Summary:
Get the most out of your domestic cat with this helpful and handy Cuddle Unit 5™ operating instruction manual.
The Cat Operator’s Manual is a fresh and quirky guide to understanding your cat, complete with assembly, warnings, insights into all of your Cuddle Unit 5™’s features and modes, and a bonus sticker sheet. We recommend that you read these operating instructions thoroughly to quickly become acquainted with your Cuddle Unit 5™ and enjoy all of its features.
In these pages, you’ll find many useful tips and information concerning your safety, how to care for your Cuddle Unit 5™, and how to maintain Cuddle Unit 5™’s interest in you, including:
Decipher your Cuddle Unit 5™’s Mood Mode Indicator.
Understand when your unit is in Eco Mode and when it’s time for Solar Charging.
Learn more about how Turbo Mode is activated.
Read up on how your Cuddle Unit 5™ will interface with robotic vacuum cleaners and recreational catnip.
With tongue-in-cheek advice and spot-on illustrations that feel just like browsing a real user manual, this book gets two opposable thumbs up. We hope you enjoy your Cuddle Unit 5™ and wish you safe and pleasant petting.
Thank you for choosing Cuddle Unit 5™—we value your trust in us.
UNBEATABLE GIFT FOR CAT LOVERS: This cheeky manual makes a fantastic present for all the cat ladies, cat moms, cat dads, and cat people in your life. There’s even a bonus sticker sheet inside!
PLAYFUL AND UNIQUE MUST-HAVE: Packaged to look like a vintage operating manual, The Cat Operator’s Manual takes cats to a whole new level. For anyone who ever wished their cats could come with instructions—now they do!
SILLY YET PRACTICAL CAT FACTS BOOK: This humorous manual stems from real information about cats, such as what triggers their zoomies, why they need to lay in the sun without moving an inch for hours, and why they may leave you unwelcome treats in unexpected places.
Perfect for:
Cat lovers
Gift-giving from the cat, for first-time cat owners, or to celebrate a pet adoption
Engineers, technical writers, and anyone who enjoys spending time with a good operations manual
Fans of quirky books and popular animal humor books such as I Could Pee on This, The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America, and How to Pet a Cat
Review:
The Cat Operator’s Manual Getting the Most from Your New Cuddle Unit by Queen Olivia III is a book that I would buy dozens of copies of to give as gifts. This is the perfect book for any human who loves cats whether you currently live with one or many.
This guide is designed in a clearer format than any operation manual for appliances or software programs. Clearly the humans who write and illustrate those need a lesson in making instructions easy to follow.
There are helpful human tips on what areas of your cat unit to avoid touching or antagonizing in general. There are diagrams that point to each specific area of the unit being addressed. Sample maps and floor plans are also included for humans who may need to search for any presents left by their cat unit.
The illustrations add to the hilarity. They’re minimalistic line drawings often showing the cat units with the exact same posture and expression but given a different flat color. Tips are given full pages with the familiar “high voltage” icon to make sure readers pay attention.
Humor aside, the tips provided are ones that are repeated within the cat behavior community by experts like Jackson Galaxy and Hannah the Kitten Lady. These subjects cover when to give your cat distance; litterbox mishaps; human hygiene; cat sounds; and feeding responsibly.
Rating: 5 Paws
Perfect for fans of Katie Cook (ABCDE·F·YOU: The ABC’s of Cat Ownership, F You, Box: And Other Observations of My Cat’s Inner Dialogue, and little things like Star Wars and My Little Pony).
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