Poor old Louis Catorze has been gorging himself silly on Orijen, with no mess whatsoever, since I started sprinkling water over to soften the pieces. On the day of writing this he’d had three breakfasts, and he’s just eating his third dinner of Cat Daddy’s drunkenly-served Orijen soup.

He seems to be finding it much easier to eat, plus he’s probably experiencing the Post-Steroid Hungries, but either way this is good news as we want him to gain weight.

At around the same time of Catorze’s messy eating, but before I knew that he had a problem with his teeth, I also noticed that he would take a mouthful of food, then stand upright to crunch. So I bought him one of those fancy tilted (and unbreakable) bowls that apparently save poor kitty from having to strain his neck downwards to eat.

Sa Maj is a man of many bowls, including this one.

However, Catorze’s buddy Sammypuss, who sent the little sod the original bowl and the back-up bowl, has very kindly offered him a third, identical one, in the extremely likely event of me smashing the back-up. And Catorze even has his friend Dexter in India scouring the local pottery market for a similar bowl, in the equally likely event of me also smashing the THIRD Sammypuss bowl. So now he has a current bowl, a new tilted bowl still in its packaging, plus half the world’s cats are also busily sourcing bowls for him.

Cat Daddy: “F***ing ridiculous.”

We all know what a cirque de merde it was the last time we changed bowls, so I certainly won’t be deploying the new one until I absolutely have to. So, for the moment, I am handling the current Sammypuss bowl very tenderly indeed, only just stopping short of lining the kitchen sink with bubble wrap before I wash it.

Anyway, Catorze is blissfully unconcerned and gives not a single hoot about his dental condition, about Bowlmageddon, about any of this. Here he is, happily gadding about outside whilst we all run ourselves ragged on his account:

Surveying his royaume (and picking out which foxes to bully first).
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22 responses to “Les belles assiettes”

  1. catladymac avatar
    catladymac

    Keeping a cat eating is always important ! Good job to all his friends on the back-up crockery !

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      He is very lucky indeed to have such good friends!

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  2. Kate Crimmins avatar

    And that’s just as it should be! He’s king of his world! I got my cats a tilted bowl too mostly for Gracie. I can’t tell if she likes it better or not but she eats from it.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I’m also not sure how I will tell if it’s better, especially now that I know the problem was his teeth!

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  3. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    I’m happy to hear Louis likes eating his watered Orijen. Dampening his dry food to soften the pieces was a great idea.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      It was certainly easier than finding an appropriate wet food, since he doesn’t like wet food!

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  4. Dr. CaSo avatar

    I love the gorgeous picture 🙂

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      The bowl? It’s nice, isn’t it? 😊

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      1. Dr. CaSo avatar

        No, the one with Sa Maj 😆

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          He’s surveying the Zone Libre like a proper Roi.

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  5. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    Which color did you get? I’d personally go for black but that might be too matchy matchy with le Roi…

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I got white because it’s the same colour as the Sammypuss bowl …

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      1. sevencatsandcounting avatar

        So you think you can fool Louis into believing nothing has changed?

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Erm, not really. Hence why my friends all over the world are asking for the dimensions of the Sammypuss bowl! 🤣

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          1. sevencatsandcounting avatar

            Please do share the dimensions. We can convert from metric.

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            1. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              Haha, I measured in inches so you won’t need to convert! The base of the bowl is 3” diameter, and the … opening? (I don’t know what you call the top edge) … is 6” diameter. It’s also asymmetric so one side is higher than the other, like the bowls you’d get in fancy restaurants post-2010. 😊

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            2. sevencatsandcounting avatar

              Nous avons trouvé un bol! Comment peut-on faire pour vous l’envoyer?

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            3. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              Oh mon Dieu! That’s wonderful, and so kind of you. I’ll email you …

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            4. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              Gahhh … I can’t remember your email address! I know I have it but I don’t even know what to type in to search for it! Would you mind reminding me please? (I won’t approve the message so the rest of the world won’t see it.)

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  6. cat9984 avatar

    Sounds like all is well in the kingdom

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      So far, yes. Let’s hope his surgery goes well too. 😐

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  7. […] his snout is too fat get to them or because he is too thick to see that they’re there. Even the tilted bowl that I bought for him a couple of years ago seems […]

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