The Cats Made Me Do It!!!: The Cats Made Me Do It!!!, #1

By The Crazy Cat Daddy

Cats are taking over the world!!! They turned a computer programmer into a cat! But why are they taking over the world? Why is the computer programmer turned into a cat? Will he be turned back into a human or be forced to remain a cat?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Two Trees Publishing
• Release date: Nov 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223682257

The Crazy Cat Daddy

I was born in the town of Castro Valley, California in 1958, raised in a military family and traveled mostly throughout the United States with the family. I never thought of myself as a writer even then. During Junior High, High School, and College I enjoyed writing poetry, never thought about writing a book. In 2016, my daughter said I should take some ideas I was tossing at her and turn them into books. With that "The Cats Made Me Do It," "Holmes Investigative Services," and "Ms. Huxley and her Kitty" came into existence. Along with that, I have written several short adventures published on the Cats Made Me Do It Website and later will be compiled into books of their own.  All the cats and kittens used in my stories are or have been residents at Crazy Cat Sanctuary and Black Cat Rescue, the humans though are fictitious, except Jo Ann, my wife, Dorothy, my daughter, or myself. We are usually referred to as Mommy, Daddy, and Sister by the cats and kittens. Because of these four-legged kids, my writing career started in earnest in 2016 with the first draft of "The Cats Made Me Do It" and a couple of web shorts that we do not share any more due to some very sad memories of "the kids'' involved. Someday I may rewrite them to share again. One thing for sure, once a CAT DAD always a CAT DAD. These four-legged creatures become your other kids for sure. They have and will continue to inspire many stories short and long,They will always give us hours of love and fun.  If I had to pick one author who truly inspires me to write, I would have to say Lilian Jackson Braun with her "Cat Who..." Series of books. As she brings the two stars Kau Ko Kum and Yum Yum to life along with their human Quilleren or Mr. Q, you can see them in your mind walking off the pages. I just hope you have as much enjoyment reading my stories as I have reading hers, and writing them for you. A little bonus for the cats. One hundred percent (100%) of all profit from the sale of my books goes to support Crazy Cat Sanctuary and Black Cat Rescue, and the precious cats and kittens I get to write about. So be sure to let your friends and family know about them.

Book preview

Preface

THE CATS MADE ME DO It!

Book 1

©2020

Let me start with an observation. If you are preparing to read this book, you must like either mysteries, travel, or felines. In this book, you will get all three. All the humans except myself, Dorothy, or Jo Ann are fictitious, but the cats and kittens are real and either have been or are current residents at Crazy Cat Sanctuary & Black Cat Rescue. 

You might wonder how these books help felines. We decided that 100%  of the sales of my books, outside of direct publishing costs, if someone orders the hard copy through Amazon, will be used by Crazy Cat Sanctuary & Black Cat Rescue. This goes for food, toys, treats, and litter, along with other supplies and expenses, such as medical bills and travel. 

If you would like to help with the cats, you can send funds via Ko-Fi to Crazy Cat Sanctuary & Black Cat Rescue or Animal Clinic (the rescue's vet). 

You can call or text the rescue at [phone] for credit card donations or by sending a check or money order to:

Crazy Cat Sanctuary & Black Cat Rescue

C/o Dorothy McDonald 

13008 Hodgenville Road 

Mount Sherman, KY 42764 

If you would like to help directly with the cats' medical bills, you can call Pam at the Animal Clinic in Greensburg, KY, at [phone] for credit or debit card donations. Just be sure to specify that you want it applied to the account of Mark Nelson for the sanctuary. 

You can also send checks or money orders directly to the vet.

Animal Clinic

68 Ivy Lane

Greensburg, KY 42743 

Please enclose a note and/or put it on the memo line of the check or money order to apply to the account of Mark Nelson.

Chapter 1

Before We Start

BEFORE WE START I would like to give you, the reader, a heads-up. Humans and cats converse all through this adventture. As you read you will see some speech in standard type, this format, and other type in italics,this format. The human speech looks like this, while cat speech looks "like this".  In this series, we hope you, our readers, will be able to follow the action as we travel the world together. 

Also, one day my Editor/Publisher and I sat down with Jules Verne, king of the pride at Crazy Cat Sanctuary and Black Cat Rescue to talk. It was decided then and there that ALL my profits belong to the cats and as such will be used for their food, treats, kitty litter, toys, and medical bills. So anytime you buy one of the bokks to continue the adventure you are supporting them. If you would like to donate ditectly head over to the website https://catsmademedoit.com and you will find their needs/wants list and how you can help. If you want to help directly with their medical bills, below is the sanctuary vets information:

ANIMAL CLINIC

68 Ivy Lane

Greensburg, KY 42743

[phone]

Be sure to let them know to apply any donations to the account of Mark Nelson as that’s the name the bill is under.

Prologue-I’m a...???

IN THE FUTURE OF THIS world, we find a man asleep in his forth floor apartment with a digital alarm clock flashing the time. It clicks off the time one digit at a time until the alarm sounds. This, however, is about to change his life, and when it does, he will never be the same in more ways than one! As the clock hits 4:05 a.m. a light flashes in the windows, just a sudden, bright, silent flash. No noise, just a flash, almost like a single bolt of lightning in a country sky. The only difference there is no noise, no thunder. Then the room is dark again, except for the digital clock on the nightstand beside the bed and the dim light coming in through the windows. The man continues to sleep on.

New York City, New York Saturday 7:00 am ET

AS WE COME BACK TO the apartment on the fourth floor the sun is just rising high enough in the sky to peek through the six apartment windows. In the bedroom we see the man start to stir in the bed, trying to uncover himself. He is supposed to be six feet tall but right now he doesn’t look like he his, or even like a five-foot person. He looks more like he’s around twelve to eighteen inches in length, maybe a small animal of some type. But there are NO animals in this apartment...Or are there?

It might help if you, the reader, know a bit more about where you are so let’s back up a bit. The year is 2039 and it’s a chilly spring day in New York City. We’re in the apartment of John Cole, a 31-year-old, single man, computer programmer and troubleshooter. He works mostly out of his home office he put together in the second bedroom. However, you might just as easily find him in a city or town near you since he works all over the country getting hands-on with the systems he repairs and upgrades