BODACIOUS: THE SHEPHERD CAT is a heart-warming and charming tale in which Bodacious tells us about life as The Shepherd Cat on Black Sheep Farm.BODACIOUS: THE SHEPHERD CAT is a heart-warming and charming tale in which Bodacious tells us about life as The Shepherd Cat on Black Sheep Farm.‘I am Bodacious, The Shepherd Cat , and this is my story. I wasn't always called Bodacious. I must have been called something else in my kitten-hood in the nearby city of Kilkenny, but it's all a bit of a mystery to My Human. As far as she's concerned, I appeared one day and have never left. It's a secret I plan to keep.’Written from the perspective of Bodacious the cat, this is a beautifully written memoir of Bodacious’s life on the farm and everything that entails – early mornings, frosty starts, beautiful sunrises, adventurous rare-breed Zwartbles sheep, hard work, entertaining animals, mouth-watering food, kind people and idyllic country living with its highs and lows.The Shepherd often tells Bodacious her favourite story of how she went out to buy red ribbon to wrap a gift for her friend, but instead came home with a gift for herself: a daring, assertive, ambitious cat looking for a home. But soon The Shepherd realises she needs Bodacious as much as he needs her. As soon as he arrives, Bodacious saunters around the farm like he owns the place and immediately establishes himself as Top Cat. But Bodacious isn’t content to pad round the house and curl up by the Aga, and soon he befriends a farm cat called Oscar who trains him in the ways of the farm. As well as Oscar, Bodacious gets to know all the other animals on the farm — cats Miss Marley and Ovenmitt, the scruffy border collie/fox terrier-cross called Pepper, and The Big Fellow, to name a few.With wonderful characterisation, humour, sharp observation, and a plucky attitude, Bodacious shows us the ropes of Black Sheep Farm. As we soak in the atmosphere of the house, the orchards and the fields, we also learn how this Top Cat Shepherd got his name – by being 'Big, bold, beautiful, bolshie', as his Shepherd always says…Suzanna Crampton grew up in the USA but spent her summers at her grandparents’ small farm in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. She studied agricultural and environmental sciences at Sterling Institute in Vermont and then pursued a variety of careers in a broad range of locations, including breaking and training Morgan Horses in upstate New York and working for a wildlife charity in South East Asia. She returned to Kilkenny in 1997 where she taught photography and now farms, blogs and tweets about her sustainable farming. Suzanna lives on her family farm in Kilkenny with her flock of Zwartbles sheep, alpacas, horses, chickens, dogs, cats and Bodacious, who strolled into her life 11 years ago.- Bodacious has a strong following on Twitter with 15K followers.- Bodacious’ YouTube videos have combined views of over half a million, with 1000 subscribers. A Vine video of Bodacious working in the field received 80,000 views.- Bodacious has a dedicated website where fans can buy merchandise, including postcards of the feline star, calendars and cat blankets.- Bodacious has been featured in various magazine articles, including an article in Country Living and, American farming magazine, Modern Farmer.- The Shepherd Cat is already gaining media interest with online articles, such as thatsfarming.com, reporting on the upcoming book.- Cats have become a mainstay in popular culture and their popularity is set to stay in 2018, largely thanks to their take-over on the internet. In the UK, cat pictures and videos are shared more than 3.8 million times every day.- Market comparisons – Finding Gobi (>15K); Arthur: The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home (44K); A Street Cat Named Bob (150K); A Dog’s Purpose (37K); The Art of Racing in the Rain (48K).
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