Рита Браун: Sneaky Pie's Cookbook For Mystery Lovers

They can’t eat any meat. Period.

Their teeth are for grinding, so the dentist must come and file off the rough edges once a year at a minimum.

I get my teeth cleaned about once every five years. It’s easier being a cat.

As cats love horses so horses love cats because we are quiet and respectful. Dogs rush around barking or nipping (very naughty) but we tiptoe into stalls or sit on a tack trunk and chat with our equine friends.

I especially enjoy talking with the horses because they see so much more than I do. Their eyes are big and they can see behind, too, whereas I focus intently on what’s in front of me. That’s the difference between predator and prey animals.

Humans spend too much time talking about the food chain. Once we are full we can all get along just fine. They would do well to learn that.

Here’s to full bellies, endless frolic, and laughter for all animals.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SNEAKY PIE BROWN resides on a farm in Afton, Virginia. She is at work on her next Mrs. Murphy mystery when she isn’t lording it over the other farm animals.

SNEAKY PIE’S COOKBOOK FOR MYSTERY LOVERS

A Bantam Book/May 1999

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Copyright © 1999 by American Artists, Inc.

Illustrations copyright © 1999 by Katie Cox Shively

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brown, Rita Mae.

Sneaky Pie’s cookbook for mystery lovers/Sneaky Pie Brown.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-57397-1

1. Cookery. 2. Cats—Anecdotes. I. Title.

TX714.B79 1999

641.5—dc21 99-12337

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