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+# Exercise 10-9 Silent Cats and Dogs
+# Learning Objective: Read from two files and include a try except section to catch file not found error this time, however, make it fail silently. 
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+cats = Path("./Chapter_10/cats.txt")
+dogs = Path("./Chapter_10/dogs.txt")
+combined_list = []
+
+try:
+    cats_content = cats.read_text()
+except FileNotFoundError:
+    pass
+    #print(f"Sorry, the file {cats} doesn't exist.")
+else:
+    for name in cats_content.splitlines():
+        combined_list.append(name)
+
+try:
+    dogs_content = dogs.read_text()
+except FileNotFoundError:
+    pass
+    #print(f"Sorry, the file {dogs} doesn't exist")
+else:
+    for name in dogs_content.splitlines():
+        combined_list.append(name)
+print(combined_list)
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