This is Belshazzar's own story as told by him. It starts out fairly nice, Bel living with a family and having a good life. But he gets into trouble and is sent to live with an elderly couple.
Things are OK at first and he is rather spoiled by the old people and he gets a bit chubby. But then the old lady dies and the old man's daughter moves into her dad's house to take care of him. The daughter and her boy friend don't like cats and don't take good care of Bel. It goes from bad to worse when the old man gets put in a nursing home. Bel ends up homeless and in desperate circumstances when he is rediscovered by the family who gave him away in the first place. They bring him back to their house, presumably to live out his final days in a loving home.
This was an OK read. It is a very short novel, only 64 pages long. It really points out how thoughtlessly cruel humans are to the animals that depend on us for their lives. And how hard it is for domesticated animals to survive on their own when we abandon them to forage for themselves.
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