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You, loving human, have served your purpose, done your duty and they, the kittens or cats, have places to go, food to eat, naps to take, and your personal property to destroy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCattiness: Some Cats are Jerks is filled with delightful photographs and lots of laughs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt Director, Writer, Creative Director and finally author. Margaret Cioffi spent her professional career working in advertising and marketing. Her career spans several years and several hundred ads in print, radio and broadcast. Margaret Cioffi has written ten books. 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The very first reality television program premiered on MTV in 1992--The Real World. That one show spawned an entire industry, and created a new kind of celebrity-- what author Andy Binder calls \"The Z-list Celebrity.\" In Andy's world, reality television and the Z-list celebrity is neither trash nor passion, but a way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReality shows, despite their claims of unplanned spontaneity, are carefully crafted vehicles populated by various familiar \"types.\" There's the cocky attention-getting male who has appeared on eight reality shows and calls himself \"Mr. Beautiful.\" The sweet country girl with a boyfriend of five years back home. The Guido-loving girl, who tries to bring home a different guy every night. The Mormon from Utah who has never seen a naked girl in person. And the list goes on. 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