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Sa Majesté Louis Catorze, Le Roi Soleil, supreme ruler of Le Château, sworn enemy of canine foe and scourge of Ocado delivery drivers.

Month: Jan 2017

  • Le Roi progresse: vive Le Roi!

    Louis Catorze had his follow-up with the vet on Friday, and she was pleased to see that he has stopped attacking his tail. The tenderness and scabs have gone, and the tail is only looking moderately freakish now. We are to keep up with the Gabapentin for at least a couple more months – he’s…

  • Le cheval de Troie

    On Saturday I was caught unpacking the 2 packs of jambon de Bayonne that I’d secretly ordered from Ocado to give Louis Catorze a bit of variety in his Trojan Horse canapés. Cat Daddy busted me before I could stuff them into the back of the fridge, and said, “You’d better not tell me those…

  • Un voyage de mille kilomètres commence par un seul pas

    We still feel very positive and optimistic after the feedback from the Royal Veterinary College. However, the words “We need to treat this quite aggressively” – which is what we were told on Friday – are still ringing in my ears, as are the words of one of the other vets at the practice, who…

  • Eureka!

    Earlier this week the vet sent Louis Catorze’s dossier to a neurological specialist at the Royal Veterinary College, and they are highly suspicious that he is displaying signs of feline hyperesthesia. Of the 7,000 animals that they see every year only 4 cats have this condition, so to know that our boy is one of…

  • J’ai 99 problèmes mais un cône n’en fait pas partie

    Louis Catorze has been doing so much better this week. On Monday morning he managed to escape outside without his Cône – despite the cat flap being both locked and physically barricaded and all windows being shut – and he hid in the cat flap tunnel for 15 minutes whilst a frantic, late-for-work Cat Daddy…

  • L’amuse-bouche

    As you are aware, the pilling has been going excruciatingly badly, with Louis Catorze becoming more and more adept at spitting out, clamping his jaws shut or being a menace in some other violent way. Many people have suggested hiding the Gabapentin in food, but Louis Catorze doesn’t really like food – he can even…

  • La pilule est dure à avaler

    Cat Daddy and I don’t seem to be getting any better at our cat pilling technique. And now we’re having to do it 3 times a day instead of twice. We cannot help but feel rather inadequate, as the two of us ought to be more than capable of handling a 3.5kg cat. However, we…

  • Les douze jours de Noël

    It’s not been such a Bonne Année here at Le Château. In fact, it’s been an awful few days, with last night being especially horrific. It was bad enough that Louis Catorze’s drugs count read just like The Twelve Days of Christmas: “Two-oo Gaba-pentin, two Zyl-kene, o-one Met-a-cam, and some Broad-line to treat the worms…