Louis Catorze is overflowing with energy at the moment.
My friend: “It’s probably because of the steroid shot. He’ll calm down.”
Me: “He hasn’t had his shot yet. He’s having it on Tuesday.”
[Silence, tumbleweed, crickets.]
He is also obsessed with his new toy. We play with him every night for about twenty minutes, in the hope that it will wear him out and that he will calm down during the night as a result.
It doesn’t work.
We are the ones who are worn out by the play, and Catorze is almost as much of a nuisance through the night as he is when he doesn’t have play. (Granted, his new-found love of his igloo helps in that respect, but he’s still utterly unhinged.)
One night, after TWO evening play sessions of twenty minutes each, I awoke to hear him downstairs, scrabbling around with his toy, having dragged it out of the hiding place where we’d put it because we don’t trust him alone with it. When all eventually went quiet, I didn’t know whether to be relieved that we finally had some peace, or concerned in case he had hung or impaled himself. (I’m not sure whether any vampires throughout history have managed to do THEMSELVES in with a stake through the heart but, if anyone’s going to do it, it’s him.)
At 5am, when I decided that I would go down and check on him, Sa Maj appeared upstairs. Then the screaming started, which was when I discovered that, even whilst asleep, Cat Daddy is capable of Unrepeatable Expletives of the Worst Kind.
Here is the little sod, enjoying one of many play sessions that he had with our friend Emily recently. Yes, he is responsible for the white stringy bits pulled from the red rug. And, no, he never poses like this for me.
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How old is he again? I think cats calm down when they are 15 or something 😀 At least that’s what my cats did!
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He will be twelve next year. So I have three more years of this! 😩😩😩
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You should wait until he is asleep during the day and start acting crazy and wake him up.
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Ha! Yes! That would serve him right!
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Toying with children before putting them to bed is not a good idea either. While playing, children get excited and then, can’t fall asleep easily.
When it’s bedtime, you must read a story to your dear little Louis.
😺
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What kind of story? I feel that a horror might be his thing.
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Edgar Allen Poe would probably suit him down to the ground.
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Most definitely!
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If you like, you can also sing him a lullaby.
♫♫♫
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He sings them to me all the time. Maybe it’s time I returned the favour!
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My Tom cat is in to the ribbon that comes round my “Slightly Foxed” magazine at this time of year. I like to imagine this makes him a discerning reader but it doesn’t. It just means he is winter bored (like me !)
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You get ribbon on your magazine? Sounds très fancy! 🎁
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Maybe when he gets his steroid shot it will have the opposite effect and chill him out a bit…ir send him off on a “roid rage.”
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Mary, it’s happening tomorrow. 🤪🤪🤪 I dread to think what will happen!
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It appears that Louis is in training. Serious training. Wishing you all the best with that, particularly after his super-charging steroid shot.
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Oh God: training for what? What event could possibly require this level of [insert appropriate noun]?
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Mass murder, bringing about the Apocalypse, miscellaneous mayhem… Whatever he’s training for, we all know it isn’t good.
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Definitely not good! Hallowe’en may be long gone but I still fear for my safety.
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As well you should.
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Looks pretty innocent in the pictures. 😸
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He really isn’t.
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