We have the maman of all middle-class problems here at Le Château: the festive tree that we purchased for our cat is so spiky that we can’t decorate it.

Cat Daddy: “Well, you wanted a tree for him. It’s your fault.” To be fair, he has a point.

Here is a picture of the tree (below) and, as you can see, I can’t even take the packaging off the pot because the Blood-Letting Needles of Death slash me to smithereens whenever I go near.

Cat Daddy is concerned that Louis Catorze will come a cropper in the same way but, despite logic suggesting entirely the opposite, I actually trust the little sod on this one. After all, it was he who informed us that the sprawling tendrils of the butternut squash plant were riddled with killer spines when we noticed him leaping to clear them instead of just elbowing/headbutting his way through: https://louiscatorze.com/2017/09/10/attention-aux-courges-butternut/

Anyway, my options now are as follows:

1. Leave the evil tree as it is.

2. Invest in one of those telescopic picking-up devices and use it to hang the decorations from a distance.

Cat Daddy: “What about “Option 3: Leave someone else to fix the problem that YOU CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE”? That’s what’s going to end up happening, isn’t it?”

He has a point there, too.

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10 responses to “Le sapin de mort”

  1. Letti avatar
    Letti

    You two actually crack me up soo much!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Hehehe! It’s a laugh a minute living with the pair of them, I tell you! 🙄

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  2. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    Oh dear! Rose pruning gloves, maybe?

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  3. samanthamurdochblog avatar
    samanthamurdochblog

    Think velcro – if it’s that spikey, you can just throw decorations at it and they’ll stick…

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      It might come to that. I’m actually not joking.

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  4. Donnla Nic Gearailt avatar

    Sell it on marketplace and get a new one

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      What should I say in the description? “Caution: blood-letting spines. May cause injury or death”? 🤣🤣🤣 That would be the honest description.

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  5. cathysrealcountrygardencom avatar

    Let him learn – through pain!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Catorze or Cat Daddy? 🤣

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  6. […] We have also caught him trying to scratch himself on his Yule tree from last year, which now lives in our garden. Yes, THAT tree. The one with the Blood-Letting Needles of Death: https://louiscatorze.com/2019/12/07/le-sapin-de-mort/ […]

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