The Cats' House: Bob Walker and Frances Mooney's world-famous jungle gym for cats.
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| In Bob Walker and Frances Mooney's books, The Cats' House and Cats into Everything, they made public their private space. What began as a catwalk to allow Bob and Frances's feline family to frolic overhead, is now a worldwide enrichment movement of cat lovers catering to every desire of their fur companions. Meows have been generous far and near . . . VIDEO Animal Planet: Most Outrageous Pet Digs "Their San Diego home has quickly become one of America's most intriguing homes since Graceland."—Mike Scalise, ANIMAL FAIR "Cat lovers have come to recognize this innovative couple as two of the founders of the feline enrichment movement. Today cat behaviorists have endorsed many of their ideas as essential to keep indoor cats both mentally and physically fulfilled.”—Sandy Robins, CATS USA 2011 ANNUAL "The most wildly cat-centric abode imaginable."—CATS 101, ANIMAL PLANET The Cats' House is honored to be selected as one of the seven Most Pampered Pets of All Time. The list includes Alexander the Great's horse and the singing bird of Mozart. "People have been spoiling their four-legged and feathered friends for thousands of years. Check out this outrageous time line featuring true tales of the rich and furry.... 1986: A San Diego, California, family turned their home into the purr-fect playground … More than 100 feet of elevated catwalks weave from room to room ... Kitty-shaped holes in the walls give the cats the run of the house—literally!"—Sean Price, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS "To help capture your cat's amazing antics and oh-so-cute looks, we turned to Bob Walker, photographer extraordinaire from San Diego. His best-selling book, The Cats' House, sets the standard in feline photography."—PLANET CAT: A CATALOG "Ultimate cat heaven ... step into the entryway of this San Diego home and you'll wish you were a cat.... Bob Walker and Frances Mooney, the modern-day Frank Lloyd Wrights of feline interior design."—Arden Moore, CAT FANCY "Walker and Mooney's amazing cat photography will give you paws."—Mike Neill, PEOPLE "Free-Spirited Dwelling in a Tract-House Nation."— Christopher Hawthorne, NEW YORK TIMES "The place that gives new meaning to the term 'cat house.'"—Deborah Norville, INSIDE EDITION "Comfy Cats: a bungalow in San Diego, California, has been transformed into a cat's dream playground."—RIPLEY'S, BELIEVE IT OR NOT! "Purr-fect Playhouse: couple create ultimate kitty castle for their furry friends."—NATIONAL ENQUIRER "Although this is Walker's first BookExpo America, he knows about crowds generated by book events. When The Cats' House was published in 1996, he held a book signing at his home (or perhaps better said, his cats' home). 'We had 900 people go through our house in four hours,' he recalls."—Diane Patrick, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEA SHOW DAILY "Turned home into a cat mansion."—TODAY SHOW "A California couple has turned their home into a pet paradise for their herd of cats."—EXTREME HOMES, HGTV "Feline Groovy: This is cat paradise for sure."—NEWSDAY "The ultimate feline fantasy. The most extravagant cat house in the country. Nothing less than than Cat Heaven."—EXTRA "This is terrific. This is wonderful. It's really breathtaking."—Christopher Lowell, INTERIOR MOTIVES, DISCOVERY CHANNEL "This is cat paradise for sure.... What started as a plan to build a scratching post grew into a stairway to feline heaven."—Linda Hales, THE WASHINGTON POST "A cat may have nine lives, but Bob Walker and Frances Mooney's nine cats have one wonderful life!"—NATIONAL EXAMINER "Taken pet pampering to resort-like heights inside their home."—Tony Frassrand, PET PALACES, HGTV "An indoor world as interesting and stimulating as outdoors only safer."—THE ULTIMATE GUIDE: HOUSE CATS, DISCOVERY CHANNEL "The House That Love Built: 10-year remodeling project turn's couple's home into a pet paradise."—LUXURY LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH & FABULOUS: CATS! "Garfield eat your heart out."—PM MAGAZINE, KFMB "Walker's dramatic photography shows just how wonderful it is to live with cats."—THE WHOLE CAT JOURNAL "Bob and Frances created 140 feet of fun space by thinking vertically and giving their cats access to nooks and crannies that no one had ever thought of before. In fact, although they didn't know it at the time, they were paving the way for the feline enrichment movement that is such an important part of every domestic cat's life today."— Sandy Robins, CATCHANNEL.COM "Design Visionaries: Frances Mooney and Bob Walker of San Diego have become nationally renowned for the unique design of their home. It's more than just a house, it's a feline vision of heaven."—Don Vaughan, CAT FANCY "A cat palace."—WOMAN'S WORLD "If cats really do have nine lives, they'd want to spend all nine of them here."—Hal Clement, NEWS EIGHT, KFMB "The lucky cats in this house deserve their Cheshire grins. While great attention has been given to the physical, psychological and social aspects of architecture and people, the needs of animals have been virtually ignored. There are four cats in Clairemont that have nothing to complain about. Bob Walker and Frances Mooney designed an interior playground for their cats that spans the length of the house.... The design's sensitivity to cat needs is astounding."—Kay Kaiser, SAN DIEGO UNION "Felines in the catbird seat at this San Diego home."—Marjean Busby, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE "San Diego's classiest Cat House."—Larry Himmel, NEWS EIGHT, KFMB "I would like to pay homage to the 'pawfather' of what is now dubbed the Feline Enrichment Movement, namely photographer and cat lover extraordinaire Bob Walker."—Sandy Robins, FABULOUS FELINES "A house that's gone to the cats: anyone who owns cats knows that it's the cats that own you. As author Bob Walker makes clear in his book, The Cats' House, his nine cats possess him, his wife and their 1,500-square-foot San Diego home.... When the fur flies in his house, Mr. Walker knows it's because cats are having fun up above."—Valli Herman, DALLAS MORNING NEWS "Thanks to Bob's ingenuity and Frances' eye for color, this couple from San Diego has given their feline housemates a spectacular playhouse that keeps the cats stimulated and sitting pretty."—Alison Landis Stone, HEALTHY PET "Cats into Everything is a photographic wonder, catching nine felines (and a dog too) at play, in feeding frenzies, suffering the indignity of a bath and sleeping with their people."—PET CENTRAL WITH STEVE DALE "The five homes in Chris Smith's 'Home Movie' are no doubt strange and eccentric. Not everyone would choose to live on a houseboat in alligator country, or in a missile silo, or in in a tree house, or in a house modified for the comfort of dozens of cats, or in a house that looks like Rube Goldberg running berserk. But what is a normal house, anyway? ... The five subjects of 'Home Movie' at least know exactly why they live where they do and as they do, and they do not require our permission or approval.... Smith's previous doc was the great 'American Movie,' about the Wisconsin man who wanted to make horror movies, and did, despite all obstacles. Perhaps the message is the same: If it makes you happy and allows you to express your yearnings and dreams, who are we to enforce the rules of middle-class conformity?"—Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES "San Diego residents Bob Walker and Frances Mooney are cat lovers of the first order.... So when it came time to make their abode more feline-friendly, they went all the way.... Their colorful ... art-filled home, the subject of a lushly photographed book titled The Cats' House, doubles as a kitty Disneyland for their lucky pets."—Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, HOUSTON CHRONICLE "San Diego couple's colorful home accommodates 11 felines, a 'token dog,' and a starring role at Sundance."—Scott Sandell, MONTEREY HERALD "The Cats' House is the ultimate in cat-lovers books. The house is a clubhouse for cats with the owners as pets."—Sue Doerfler, ARIZONA REPUBLIC "So your friends think you're eccentric for adding four or five cat trees to your decor? Tell them to get a load of The Cats House site. But don't let your cats see it unless you're prepared for remodeling."—BEST FRIENDS MAGAZINE "The Cats' House: stunningly gorgeous photographs, architecture and interior design."—Jackie Johnston, CATNEWS.COM "A word to the wise: Don't let your cats read Cats into Everything. If they should, by some chance, get their paws onto Bob Walker's new book, be prepared to either do some home renovation or buy them a ticket to San Diego to visit Walker in the ultra cat-friendly house he spotlighted in his earlier book, The Cats' House.... The author's brilliant, humorous photography is as engaging as in the first book."—Sally Rosenthal, CATS "Anyone familiar with Walker's photographic style can instantly recognize his richly colorful and unique interpretation of cat antics."—Ellyce Rothrock, CAT FANCY "The Cats' Meow.'"—CNN HEADLINE NEWS "Ten little social climbers."—MOST EXTREME: KILLER CATS, ANIMAL PLANET "One San Diego couple really went crazy over their cats. Bob Walker and Frances Mooney remodeled their entire home for their cats!"—Arline Bleecker, HOW TO PAMPER YOUR CAT "Undoubtedly the most cat-friendly house on the planet. There is definitely nothing else like it."—Barbara Kohn, EXAMINER.COM "Ever wonder where the word 'catwalk' originated? Maybe at a home in San Diego."—CNN HEADLINE NEWS "A cat's dream house."—Ali Landry, Jules Sylvester, AMERICA'S GREATEST PETS, UPN "Most people don't paint their houses purple on the outside, or use 42 colors on the inside. Most of us aren't minor international celebrities. And most of us don't live with 11 cats, or own places devoted as much to their needs as to ours. But if you are one of the millions who have heard about the Cats' House, created by this married couple in a neighborhood of off-white tract homes above San Diego's Mission Bay, you just might aspire to be a bit different too."—Scott Sandell, LOS ANGELES TIMES "Combining art and function in an elaborate maze of color and complexity, the Walker-Mooney Catwalk is no ordinary scratching post."—Mark-Elliott Lugo, SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE "The Cats' House is an Architectural Digest for cat lovers."—Steve Dale, MY PET WORLD "Home Improvements—The Best Fix: Bob Walker has shown the way, by incorporating a 110-foot (yup) carpeted, elevated catwalk into his house. If you don't look up, Bob's house could seem normal, but if you do, wow!"—Ingrid Newkirk, 250 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO MAKE YOUR CAT ADORE YOU "A feline version of purr-fection."—ANIMALS ARE PEOPLE, TOO, PAX TV "Bob Walker and wife Frances are leading the way into the new age of Pet Decor, to the delight of their feline family."—PETS: PART OF THE FAMILY "They've created a house that beguiles the human eye and serves as a veritable Disneyland for their pampered felines."—SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE "If you were a cat, life in Bob Walker and Frances Mooney's house would be a dream come true."—Ellyce Rothrock, CAT FANCY "What Walker has created is a colorful tribute to the roles cats play in our lives by offering a way to reward them for simply being their feline selves—an environment called the 'cat house.' ... Definitely catwalks to heaven."—Barbara Jacobs, BOOKLIST "THE CAT'S MEOW: Bob Walker and Frances Mooney have completely remodeled their house to keep their cats happy. Bob's wonderful book, The Cats' House, shows how."—Gina Spadafori and Paul D. Pion, DVM, DACVIM, CATS FOR DUMMIES "Wall To Wall Whiskers: For cat fanciers, The Cats' House is literary catnip. There's no resisting the visual treats in this newly published book.... The cat's meow is Bob Walker's irresistible pictures."—Mary Hellman James, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE "A California couple has turned their home into a pet paradise for their herd of cats."—EXTREME HOMES, HGTV "Bob Walker is a professional photographer living in San Diego and his pictures are incredibly inventive with shots being taken from unusual vantage points including the ceiling and beneath tables."—THE CAT "The luckiest cats in the world."—Jack White, CHANNEL 10, KGTV "San Diego's Bob Walker and Frances Mooney ... home is a local legend as the colorful playpen of their many cats."—David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE "If a man's home is his castle, then this house is a kitty kingdom."—Paula Story, PASADENA STAR-NEWS SUNDAY TIMES-NEWS "These cats are living the high life."—EXTRA "The ultimate cat-friendly fantasyland: what began as a simple floor-to-ceiling scratching post to prevent Walker's nine cats from sharpening their claws on the furniture is now a whole set of ramps, stairs, and cat walks throughout his house. The playfulness of his house, which has been painted in over 40 bright colors, comes across in the numerous photographs."—LIBRARY JOURNAL "Cats into Everything celebrates the universal lifestyle and daily activities enjoyed by house cats … Featuring Walker's dramatic color photographs and insightful yet often humorous text."—PET BUSINESS "The house is fit for a cat. (Walker and Mooney) changed the entire interior of their house into a playground for their beloved felines."—Arden Moore, TODAY'S HOMEOWNER MAGAZINE "Oh, to be a cat in this house!"—Phyllis DeBlanche, SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE "A kitty kingdom."—ASSOCIATED PRESS "A domicile designed distinctly for puddy cats."—Arthur Black, WEIRD HOMES, HGTV "You haven't experienced feline heaven on earth until you've stepped inside a very creative, special house in San Diego. The names on the mortgage are Bob Walker and Frances Mooney, but the real 'owners' are their delightful cats who live in a feline fantasy world. A 'meow-va-lous' one-of-a-kind house."—Arden Moore, FOURLEGGEDLIFE.COM "Imagine a house built by cat owners so obsessed with enjoying their cats enjoying life they built a Disney World for felines. Amazing house."—Bette Harrison, ATLANTA CONSTITUTION "Perhaps the most well-known cat home designers are Bob Walker and his wife, Frances Mooney, who designed a beautiful home especially created for their cats in the hills of Southern California.—Stacy Mantle, CAT FANCY "Cats inspire new (fe)line of architect: Runners and climbers, loungers and batters, these contented cats will go down in history as the curious, athletic muses for a new breed of animal architecture. Mooney and Walker are catapulting their modified 1950s tract house to fame among cat fanciers — and anyone else who appreciates unique home entertainment. From this first catwalk, the playground has grown by sections and by rooms into a continuous sculptural environment — a colorful 'cabitat' that winds its narrow walk through the 1,500-square-foot house.... A new breed of animal architecture is born in Clairemont."—Ann Jarmusch, SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE "In fact, the house is known far and wide as The Cats' House."—Cheryl Hamada, EXTREME HOMES, HGTV "Working from a cat's point of view, they transformed their home into a feline friendly, functional and beautiful showcase of architectural design.... Color photographs of the Walker/Mooney cats enjoying their domestic bliss are a fanciful combination of art and pet photography."—Sally Rosenthal, CATS "If there's a heaven for cats, this is definitely it."—Sandra Maas, Judy Hsu, CHANNEL 8 STUDIO, KFMB "And what a living space it is—a creative, colorful feline fantasyland."—Debbie Phillips-Donaldson, CAT FANCY "Welcome to the wonderfully whimsical and wacky world of The Cats' House, a feline paradise and playground that's the ever-changing creation of Bob Walker and Frances Mooney, two artists who share their home and inspiration with their current nine cats."—Nicole Sours Larson, SAN DIEGO PETS "Absolutely purr-fect."—INSIDE EDITION "The ultimate cat-friendly fantasyland."—PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY "The Cats' House is certain to make cat fanciers purr with pleasure."—Mary Gottschalk, ARIZONA REPUBLIC "Ground-breaking book: The Cats' House, a new book by Bob Walker, tackles previously unexplored turf. While there have been volumes written about how to incorporate an in-law suite into the renovation of a house, or how to decorate a child's room so that it 'grows' with him or her, pet lovers have not been told how to decorate with their four-legged pals in mind."—Marge Colborn, DETROIT NEWS AND FREE PRESS "World famous, wild and whimsical cat cottage."—FACE FOUNDATION "Use Extra Space in Your Home for Maximum Feline Delight: Walker's simple 1,500-square-foot Southern California ranch-style home is now a wildly colored (40 hues), brilliantly designed celebration of the joy cats bring to interior spaces."—Candace Olsen, PETS.COM "Homeowners make abode cat's meow: Bob Walker and his wife have created a nearly purr-fect house."—Joseph Thesken, SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE "Walker and Mooney are widely considered initiators of the fast-growing pet environmental enrichment trend in America, a movement that includes adding fancy furnishings, window seats and elaborate play structures to give lucky four-legged friends a place to escape or nap.." —Sandy Robins, MSNBC.COM "A cat palace."—ABC NEWS 20/20 "The place is littered with hundreds of pieces of feline flotsam. It's enough to make you catatonic."—George Gray, WHAT'S WITH THAT HOUSE?, HGTV "In order to get to kitty heaven, cats don't have to rush through those nine lives. All they have to do is pack their bags and head for Bob Walker and Frances Mooney's little purple house in the Bay Park area of San Diego, Calif."—Peggy Scott, CAT FANCY "The Cats' House by Bob Walker is an extraordinary little book. A kind of cross between 'That Darn Cat' and 'This Old House.' It's a colorful photographic tour of a unique cat-friendly home.... He transformed his California tract home into a feline version of Disneyland."—Mary Daniels, CHICAGO TRIBUNE "The Cats' House: If you love cats, buy this book; no cat-lover should miss it. Your familiar(s) will thank you."—Elizabeth Barrette, CAULDRONS & BROOMSTICKS |