When I was looking back over past blog entries the other day (as I sometimes do, in an “Oh my God, did he really do that or was it just some awful dream?” type of way), I remembered that, this time last year, Louis Catorze was Côned.
Naturellement, I am desperately hoping that we won’t have to adopt the same horrible measures again, and I can’t seem to stop myself from neurotically studying photos of Louis Catorze this time last year, searching for a sign that he is better now than he was then. And I think he is. It’s very hard to tell, because he can look pretty normal in some light and utterly awful in others. Plus, last year, he’d also had his skin biopsy which added a further layer of itchy complication into the mix. But, this time, we acted a lot more quickly to introduce/up the steroids, so hopefully that will be enough.
That said, knowing him, he will probably find some new and unexpected way of sabotaging our efforts. He usually does.
Anyway, Catorze certainly isn’t acting like a sick cat. In fact, even Cat Daddy commented that the little sod had been having a fine old time outside, gadding about in the Zone Libre and enjoying the early spring. It would have been nice had he done this on that Wednesday afternoon instead of screaming through my podcast for a whole hour, but tant pis.
One of Catorze’s favourite things to do is sitting on Oscar the dog’s summer house roof. We are certain that he misses his old sparring partner, and that he goes there to look for him.
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The early application of the steroid will probably do the trick.. We hope.
Catorze probably is missing Oscar. It’s hard to find a worthy object of your attention.
We lost our cat Oscar last year (from kidney disease) and even though he was the one who was a bit of a bully, the other cats did seem to miss him.
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Aww, your cats missed Oscar even though he was a bully! That’s so sweet!
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I’m happy to hear such good pieces of news. As I started to read you only a few months ago, I don’t know whether Oscar the dog moved or died. Can you tell me what happened to him? Thank you in advance for it.
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Oscar passed away last summer, sadly. He and Catorze had the most entertaining relationship: https://louiscatorze.com/2020/08/23/lami-fidele/
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Thank you for your answer and the link. Have you already heard Oscard barking in doggy heaven from Le Château?
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Awww, we haven’t, but maybe Le Roi can sense him!
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Let’s hope Louis has an uneventful spring! No skin conditions!
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I sincerely hope this will be the case!
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Keeping my fingers crossed that 2021 is better for Louis (And the rest of us)
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Merci! I hope so, too. Poor little sod had such a bad time last year. 😢
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