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Just Like Cats & Dogs Paperback – 30 Sept. 2011

by B. A. Tortuga (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
If there's one thing Sam knows for sure it's that you can never go home again. As a feline shifter who grew up in a family of wolves, he's used to being a freak. He stays in the city and tries to get his family to visit him, but when a loved one passes away, Sam has to go back to the New Mexico desert for a last goodbye. Gus only comes back to the pack at gathering time, once in a blue moon. He's usually a wanderer, but he's with the pack when Sam comes home. Gus and Sam have never gotten along, but this time around Gus is surprised by the attraction he feels for this new, slinky version of his high school nemesis. Sam and Gus may not be able to resist each other, but finding time to be together and overcome their differences might be too much for them, especially when danger lurks just around the corner, and all around the world. Can cats and dogs live to learn together, or are Gus and Sam destined to fail?
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  1. Book 1 of 2
    Sanctuary
  2. Print length
    212 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Torquere Pr
  5. Publication date
    30 Sept. 2011
  6. Dimensions
    12.7 x 1.27 x 20.32 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    1610405595
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1610405591
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Torquere Pr
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 30 Sept. 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 212 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1610405595
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1610405591
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 218 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.27 x 20.32 cm
  • Book 1 of 2 ‏ : ‎ Sanctuary
  • Best Sellers Rank: 74,590 in Erotic Literature & Fiction
  • Customer reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 190 ratings

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BA Tortuga

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Texan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy's Girl, BA Tortuga spends her days with her basset hounds, getting tattooed, baking, and eating Mexican food. When she's not doing that, she's writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting, and surfing Pinterest in the name of research. BA's personal saviors include her wife, Julia Talbot and coffee. Lots of coffee. Really good coffee.

Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to hard-core cowboys to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which was raised in Northeast Texas, but has heard the call of the high desert and lives in the Sandias. With books ranging from hard-hitting romance, to fiery menages, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head, and she's determined to give her cowboys their happily ever afters.

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  • kindleaddict
    5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2017
    This is the Dreamspinner edition of the book. Full of potential violence to poor Sam. Its spread over a few years and every year means more scars. I like the premise of the "Dogs and Cats can't live together" but you see the alternative proved over and over again, Why not for Sam and Gus. I enjoyed this take on shifters. I hope we see more from this world.
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  • Yvonne
    4.0 out of 5 stars HEA does not come easy
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 May 2025
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    Sam was the only feline shifter in a pack of wolves, not fitting in, he spent his time away from the pack. Gus when he was younger was one of Sam's tormentors, but now they are both grown up and something between them has shifted.
    Throughout this whole book I felt sorry for Sam, he was damned if he did, damned if he don't. The wolves hated him, the felines hated him. But he was still the majority of the time positive. Whilst there is something there when Sam and Gus meet again, it is not rushed and you can see how happy they are together. I loved that even in their human form, they still had some of their animal traits and I laughed with Sam's obsession with a certain food and their nicknames made me laugh as I could imagine their tone of voice
    There are a few unexpected shocks and it is hard work for Sam and Gus to get their HEA. I loved the secondary characters thanks to Sam's adoptive mom, adopting others that were orphaned, My favourite being Grey and I hope to know more about them
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  • Tali
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good start
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2011
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    Picked this up because hey, cat v dog, it sounds humorous right? No idea what to expect in this as the author is new and there have not been many write up's or reviews on the book. I gave it a chance and was pleasantly surprised.

    Interesting writing style, it's nice and simple, good read for a drowsy day or when you just want to switch off for a while. I quite liked the characters, though I felt they could have been a little stronger in personality at times. Interesting story line, nice interactions and some nice romance.

    Not a bad book, not brilliant, but not bad.
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  • A.Non
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic furry tale!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2014
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    Sweet m/m romance focusing on wereshifters. Written from both leads perspectives it is a sensory, thrilling plot covering themes of family, belonging, friendship, bullying, healing, good guys and bad guys, and of course hot guys & true love!
    Good value for money, great story and something a little different, making this one a keeper :)
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  • Debbie Attenborough
    4.0 out of 5 stars it was great once it warmed up!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2017
    Independent reviewer for Divine Magazine, I was gifted my copy of this book.

    Sam, a cat shifter, has been bought up in a group of misfits who never really fit in anywhere. On a trip home, he runs into his childhood bully. A wolf no less. A very sexy, very grown up wolf. Gus' reaction to Sam is equally baffling. Because cats and dogs can't really be mates, can they?

    I have a couple of *issues* with this book.

    Firstly, there is a lot of dialogue at the beginning of the book. I mean, A LOT. I got to about 25% and its mostly dialogue and I was thinking to dump it. But something niggled and I'm glad I didn't.

    Its get a little confusing along the time line. From when Sam goes home for his father's funeral, to when Sam and Gus meet again, I wasn't sure if it was months, or years. Got a little confusing!

    And I wish, so desperately wished for more of what was happening to Sam in New York! Because that felt kinda thrown in there, like we needed to have some major conflict. I needed to know about it BEFORE they turned up at the flat, before they took Sam. Long before then, we should have been privvy to that information.

    BUT!!!

    Like I said, I didn't dump it, and it does get better after a very slow warm up and I really did enjoy it (these points aside!)

    Loved the little extra bit, that little short story tagged on the end. Loved that, while I saw one mating coming, I was totally off with the other! I really REALLY wanna read that next book!!

    4 solid stars, once it warmed up!

    **same worded review will appear elsewhere**
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  • ACC
    1.0 out of 5 stars More questions than answers.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2017
    Copy Received from author/publisher in exchange for an honest review. Reviewed for Alpha Book Club.

    This is the first book I have read by BAT and it was not a good start. I usually enjoy a good ‘shifter’ story but this one, although it sounded exciting based on the blurb, it just left me all kinds of confused.

    Sam is a feline shifter (not of the household variety) who has been raised in a loving family of wolf shifters who make a habit of taking in those with nowhere else to go. Despite being considered a member of the family, Sam doesn’t seem to fit in. Even his siblings won’t accept him running with them during a full moon and prefer to lock him up to protect him from them. As humans, there is no issue but in their animal form, all bets are off.

    Our other MC is Gus. A big, butch wolf shifter who for some reason bullied Sam when they were growing up. The two men meet again when they return for Sam’s father’s funeral. They realise that they are attracted to each other, though neither acts on it. They start building bridges at this point but it is only when they run into each other some time in the future that their relationship moves to the next level. Their main concern is that despite what they are feeling, cats and dogs just shouldn’t form romantic partnerships so they try to fight it, knowing that they are likely to be shunned by their families. We follow the men as they try to navigate their relationship towards safer territory.

    This book had the makings of a good story but I spent half my time wondering what on earth was going on. The author seems to jump back and forward in time without warning and this made it difficult to form any sort of timeline in my head and not only did I struggle to work out which character was talking but I had no idea whether they were in human or animal form. I also struggled with and got fed up trying to understand general conversations. The sentences were short and very choppy and may have made sense in the head of the person doing the writing but it did not translate well to the reader. The dialogue felt incomplete, almost like they had their own secret language that we were not privy to. To me, it felt like not all the relevant information was provided and I therefore had to fill in the blanks myself. There are plenty of sex scenes but again, because of the cut off sentences, they were really more irritating than anything and were about as hot as the Arctic. There are so many holes in the plot and all I have been left with many, many unanswered questions. This one just wasn’t for me.
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  • meganissima
    5.0 out of 5 stars So love this book
    Reviewed in the United States on 17 March 2022
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    I reread this book again and again. Their love story isn't easy and it isn't always happy. Their beginning is frustrating, disappointed, so sexy, but also so hurtful that I almost don't want them together, but when it comes together, when the rescues happen, it's so beautiful. I ache when I read it, swoon, and sigh, and need a fan when I read it. There are so many good parts that I remember randomly and need to reread and parts that hurt me when our prickly feline is hurt inside and out that make me want to skim or skip but I can't because I don't want to miss out on any of the details, bad and good.

    Rarely do I rate a book five stars and rarely do I reread one so many times I've lost count. With the thousands and thousands of books out there that interest me this is one that I happily return to.
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  • Peter Todd
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and playful
    Reviewed in the United States on 18 December 2011
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    I have a love/hate relationship with Shifter novels. There are several mainstream urban fantasy Shifter series that I enjoy. Among them, the Patricia Briggs Mercedes Thompson series Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, Book 1) and Eileen Wilks Tempting Danger (The World of the Lupi, Book 1). M/M Shifter stories often fail by comparison, usually because they're too trite.

    That being said, I really enjoyed "Cats and Dogs." It doesn't approach the complexity of mainstream Shifter novels, but it was fun anyway. The relationship between the main characters was enjoyable, and I liked the way the author fit their human personalities to their Shifter identities.

    I still hold out hope that one of these talented M/M authors will go more mainstream and write urban fantasy with gay characters.
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  • JTorleif
    3.0 out of 5 stars Ok, but confusing at times
    Reviewed in the United States on 25 June 2018
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    I would have liked for there to have been a bit more worldbuilding in this book to understand what the rules were. I don't know what made Sam and Gus mates... Were they fated? Did a bite during sex do it? Something else?
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A really great book!
    Reviewed in the United States on 17 July 2017
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    It has been a bit hit and miss for me and this author however this book is awesome! I loved the theme and appreciated less detail on the bad parts throughout the book as a lot of the time, spelling something out isn't necessary. I loved the characters and the way it was written. I loved it that much that once I finished I bought the next one!
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  • Manuela
    4.0 out of 5 stars Loved the dynamic
    Reviewed in the United States on 20 November 2021
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    Cats and dogs don't like each other, they always fight. Seems to be the way with Gus and Sam. Since they were young, Gus didn't like Sam. When Sam returns home all grown up and sexy, Gus changes his tune.
    It was fun to see them fight and it was even better to see them falling for each other. I loved it. Couldn't put it down and read all night. Looking forward for more.
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