The author and her husband bought Sugieh, their first Siamese kitten, to deal with an invasion of mice. They were not ordinary mice. None of the animals in this book could be called ordinary - from Grandma's tame owl, Gladstone, whose insistence on sitting on top of the bathroom door nearly froze the family to death in winter, to Blondin the squirrel, who chewed through a watch to find the tick and, when he was sent to stay with Aunt Louisa, insisted on sleeping, nuts and all, in her bed.

But none was quite so out-of-the-ordinary as Sugieh, daughter of Caesar, whose coming brought bedlam to a quiet country home. She was the living example of an iron hand in a small, blue-pointed glove. And when she herself had kittens, after a hilarious courtship and marriage, life just became more riotous than ever. It could hardly do otherwise with a batch of offspring that included the battling Blue Boys, a she-kitten who was determined to be a Vamp when she Grew Up, and the indefatigable Solomon Seal.

Solomon, in particular, was a Character, even at a very early age. For instance, it took his owners quite a time to discover that it was he who gave an ecstatic "Woohoohoo" at intervals while eating rabbit, like a small damp train going through the Rockies. After Sugieh's tragic death Solomon and his sister Sheba stayed on in charge of the author's household, doggedly determined to keep the Siamese flag flying, and very thoroughly they did it too!

Description taken from dust-wrapper flaps.