Cat Daddy is coping well with life under house arrest. Over the weekend he conducted numerous experiments to see whether wine eased the symptoms of Covid, but unfortunately he can’t remember any of the results so he says he’s going to have to repeat them.

In other news, Cat Daddy’s tarragon is starting to sprout again (not a euphemism; I do mean actual tarragon). And so, naturellement, Louis Catorze has felt compelled to sit his arse on top of it, having shown zero interest in the trough when it was just soil.

Luckily the tarragon has been dislodged/bent to one side by the royal rump, so none of the herb has actually come into contact with anywhere unmentionable. But this is still far from being an optimal situation.

Hark! Do you hear the sound of Unrepeatable Expletives ringing out through the springtime air?

Cat Daddy is absolutely livid, but there’s nothing he can do about it. He’s already busy enough devising inventive ways of getting one over on the squirrels and the pigeons, and he simply doesn’t have time to police another individual too (ironically, the very one whose responsibility it is to fend off the squirrels and the pigeons).

Will Cat Daddy succeed in deterring the royal rump? Stay tuned …

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27 responses to “Le pain à l’estragon”

  1. Mary McNeil avatar
    Mary McNeil

    Could Louis be distracted by a bed of canip being planed nearby ?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I’d be worried that it would bring thousands of cats!

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  2. Dr. CaSo avatar

    Hahaha, the picture is so funny! How about chicken wire to protect the pot? Make a tunnel above the pot with it, let the air and sun through, and prevent the Royal Rump from getting in there 😀

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Cat Daddy is on the case, although I fear his ideas are more along the lines of tear gas and guns … 😩

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  3. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    What about a second box of tarragon put out of Louis’s reach?
    Cat Daddy might hang it on a bare wall, for example.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I think Catorze would be too stupid to notice it. He’s quite literally made his bed and he will lie in it. 🤣🤣🤣

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    2. mmechapeau avatar
      mmechapeau

      That’s the idea…
      The current box will stay Louis’s one whereas the new one will be yours.

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      1. iamthesunking avatar
        iamthesunking

        So we have the … inferior box? 😱

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        1. mmechapeau avatar
          mmechapeau

          We have the one which needs a scale to get reachable.

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  4. Charles Huss avatar

    I had to laugh at that photo.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Cat Daddy didn’t. 😬😬😬

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  5. Kate Crimmins avatar

    A cat’s arse goes where it wants to. Hard to train it. Cat Daddy will have to think of something.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Ohhh, he has a plan, which will be revealed later this week! By the way, I love it when Americans write “arse” instead of “ass”. Nothing makes me happier than this.

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  6. Doug Thomas avatar

    I had a fine patch of chives in the garden at one time. The neighbor had a Labrador that he occasionally allowed out from behind the fenced yard where it usually spent its days. One time, right in front of me, while the neighbor and I were talking, his dog pooped directly on top of the chives!

    That section of the chives was dug up and tossed that day. No amount of soapy water could wash off the memory of that dump!

    I liked to eat peas, tomatoes, and green beans directly off the plants up till then. I had visions of that dog lifting his leg on the plants and lost that pleasure, too.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Oh good grief! 😱😱😱 I would have cried! Was the neighbour suitably mortified? Louis Catorze wees on Cat Daddy’s onion plants, and Cat Daddy sees nothing wrong with this. I know that animals do all sorts of things on crops but it’s different when you SEE it!

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      1. Doug Thomas avatar

        He just continued talking. I was appalled, of course, for obvious reasons.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Did he notice?

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          1. Doug Thomas avatar

            Have you seen a Labrador stand next to you and poop? LOL! Yes, he had to be aware of it.

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            1. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              AND HE JUST CARRIED ON TALKING AND IGNORED IT???? 😱😱😱

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            2. Doug Thomas avatar

              Amazing, eh?!

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            3. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              I am actually going to have to sit down and blow into a paper bag.

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  7. Sally Goodman avatar
    Sally Goodman

    If it fits, I sits….. 😀

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      As long as he doesn’t shits.

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  8. cat9984 avatar

    Cat Daddy is probably not going to offend his little buddy, so I’m guess the tarragon will have to fend for itself. 🙂

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      He has A Plan! 😱

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