When Louis Catorze decided that he didn’t want to eat Canagan anymore, despite the fact that he’d eaten it perfectly happily for TWO WHOLE WEEKS BEFOREHAND, Cat Daddy and I decided it was time to deploy the Orijen. This was not a decision that we took lightly, given that it would send us spiralling into debt*, but we didn’t know what else to do.

*Here is a comparison, using a dry food pack of around 1.5-1.8kg as a guide:

⁃ Supermarket or commercial brands: approx. £2-3 per kg

⁃ Mid-range but still perfectly decent brands: approx. £7-10 per kg

⁃ Posh brands: approx. £12 per kg

⁃ Orijen Six Fish: £16.66 per kg, +£2 for the Regional Red (red meat) variant, +£4 for the Tundra (game) variant

I could get better value from the massive 5.4kg pack but we don’t have room to store it, and I refuse to buy a bag of cat food that weighs more than my cat. Plus, if anything were to GUARANTEE our mutual friend ceasing to like it, it would be the purchase of a huge pack costing this much:

Good grief.

Anyway … very tentatively, we gave Catorze a dessertspoonful of Orijen without his old food, and we barely drew breath as he approached it.

SAINT JÉSUS: HE ATE IT.

Then he ate another portion. Then he ate two more normal-sized portions. And when Cat Daddy came home from the pub later, Catorze did such a screamy, starey number on him that he drunk-served him a fifth – and most likely enormous – portion.

Cat Daddy’s Helpful Comment of the Day, sent by drunken text that night: “I told you he knew there was better food around. He’s just polished off a whole bowl like some craved [sic] animal who’s never eaten before.”

Be warned, Chat Noir owners: their power is growing. We thought it only happened in October, but it’s started early. Until now, never would I have believed in mind control so intense that it could compel me to buy the most expensive cat food in existence, to pray for said Chat Noir to love it AND to feel pure joy when he did. Catorze is Charles Manson in feline form.

Mind you, by that point I was so worn down by this whole sorry saga that I would have been grateful if he’d eaten asbestos and drain unblocker. And they would have been cheaper.

Smug little sod.
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25 responses to “Le Grand Changement de Nourriture (Plan C Partie 1)”

  1. catladymac avatar
    catladymac

    As long as CatDaddy contributes to the cost of what he serves his favorite chat…”let them eat cake.”

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Haha, I wonder if Sa Maj would have eaten cake had I given it to him? 🤣

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  2. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    What a beautiful photo of Catorze! His whiskers particularly stand out–I had not realized before how long they are. They seem like the whiskers of a much longer Cat, nay a Panther! Do you suppose Louis believes he is as wide as his whiskers are long? That could explain a lot, in addition to the fact that you named him le roi soleil.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      In real life his whiskers are bashed-up and misshapen, as if he’s been hit in the face with a frying pan. 🤣🤣🤣

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      1. mmechapeau avatar
        mmechapeau

        I’m afraid, but are you the one who hit Louis with a frying pan or did he encounter Tangled one day ?

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          I am tempted to hit him with a frying pan at times!

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  3. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    And when I said “longer” cat I meant “larger.”

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  4. Bipolar's gf avatar

    I’m glad my four eat supermarket food. If they didn’t, I’d have to sell my house. 😱

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Supermarket food was next on my list to try!

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      1. alicephilippa avatar
        alicephilippa

        Sainsbury’s do a hypoallergenic food. Not looked at its ingredients though.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Thank you. I’m sure I would have added it to my list had the Grands Changements all failed!

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      2. Lis avatar
        Lis

        Hahaha…..wouldn’t it be funny if he wolfed that down….after paying all that money for superfood!

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Not really. 😐

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  5. cat9984 avatar

    Wow. Sounds like he’s eating better than you are

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      He is. What a little sod.

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  6. hencorner avatar

    You better lock your cat flap or my chats de noir will be coming for supper 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I was going to say “They wouldn’t come this far” but Chanel probably would!

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  7. Dr. CaSo avatar

    Yay, something is working, I am happy for you all 😀 Yesterday, I made a potato salad with a LOT of vinegar and shallots and dill and pickles in it, and Miss Penny started eating it… You and I have the weirdest cats in the universe!!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      She ate POTATO SALAD? 😳

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      1. Dr. CaSo avatar

        yes, she’s ferocious! I was stunned!

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Le Roi’s big brother Luther was the same. He would always pester me when I was cooking, so I’d give him some truly vile stuff “to teach him a lesson” and that backfired spectacularly. 🤣

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  8. Kate Crimmins avatar

    He’s got you right where he wants you! 🙂

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Hang on a second: we’re the victims here! 😱😱😱

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  9. Lis avatar
    Lis

    And I thought I paying a lot for a 3.5 kg bag….£45

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Haha, Orijen is crazy-expensive. Cat Daddy is FURIOUS that he is eating it.

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