Following BinBagGate last week, I have two questions:

1. How?

2. Why?

The first of these is relatively easy to answer: we suspect that Louis Catorze actually tried to get into the bin bag – I KNOW – and, in thrashing around inside, somehow rolled it across the floor and tipped it over. The thought of this repulses me to my very core because, that very morning, I cuddled the little sod in bed.

Oui, Mesdames and Messieurs: I ALLOWED A CAT, WHO HAD JUST BEEN INSIDE A BIN BAG, INTO MY BED. I may, in my half-asleep state, even have felt his damp fur and assumed it were rainwater, not realising that it was actually bin juice. (I don’t recall if he felt wet or not. To be honest I daren’t think too hard about it.)

As for the second question, we are completely lost. Why would a noble monarch, the elder statesman of vampire Chats Noirs, want to climb inside a disgusting bin bag (other than because we wanted and expected him to leave it alone, of course)?

Cat Daddy and I will probably spend the rest of our lives trying to understand it. Catorze, however, having successfully traumatised me from this ridiculous escapade, is busily planning the next.

Pretending to cuddle me but secretly rubbing bin juice all over the sheets. Eurgh.
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  1. M - avatar

    Perhaps you should try explaining to Louis that this behavior is normally attributed to…dogs.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I do think he was a dog in one of his past lives!

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  2. mary mcneil avatar
    mary mcneil

    Be careful what you put in the bin.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      In this case Catorze put himself in!

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  4. Lou Carreras avatar

    The darlings always surprise our previous cat Smidgen I a black cat with double paws and claws) always acted disgusted when we’d come home and find the bin knocked over and scattered. the dog acted guilty, and so got punished. at last we came home Monday and found the cat in the middle of scattering all the garbage, while the dog just looked on. He just looked at us as though saying, “I tried to tell you but you wouldn’t listen.” She’d been getting away with it for years.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Hahahaha! Smidgen! I bet she was having a hearty laugh as the dog got the blame!

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      1. Lou Carreras avatar

        She’d sit there looking at him as though disgusted by his behavior.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Of course she did. Poor doggy!

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  5. Mme Chapeau avatar
    Mme Chapeau

    I’m afraid, but normally, bin juice smells. Even half-asleep, you should have noticed it, shouldn’t you?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I should have. But maybe I didn’t. 🤢

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  6. Charles Huss avatar

    I think cats do things specifically to confound us. It is like they find humor in it.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      They definitely do it on purpose! They’re such arseholes!

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  7. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    I have a questions for you…

    Do you go to bed smelling nice?
    I’m guessing the answer is ‘well I always smell nice’

    Do you, unlike me because intolerance of scent, use perfumes?
    I’m assuming you do as most people, unlike me, love a bit of scent here and there

    Maybe Catorze thinks bin juice is a pleasant scent and did this to make himself gorgeous for you?!

    My dog I had when I first got married used to love our male visitors who were wearing aftershave and used to go nuts rubbing himself against the unsuspecting visitor’s neck and parade around his lovely scent. To get his immediate attention all I had to do was sprinkle some Johnson’s baby powder on the carpet and call out ‘Minty, smell nice’ and he’s come running, throw himself on the powder and roll and wriggle around until he felt sufficiently perfumed, bless him! He definitely preferred aftershave to perfume, but if only women were present he would try to get a snuggle with them. The downside of his only liking things that smell nice was when I rescued him some female company. He obviously didn’t think she smelled nice, so generally ignored her. The downside was that when she came into her first season I hadn’t thought it through, I could see he wasn’t at all interested in her but my concern was about when I wasn’t at home, so I went to a pet shop and asked for some advice, they had a spray that was supposed to be revolting to boy doggies, so I went home and sprayed Bonnie. My mother in law was furious that I had 2 dogs, not her business I know but she was one of those overbearing types that thought I should do as she thought fit. Well around 2am on what happened to be mother in law’s birthday we woke to the sounds of screaming, we ran downstairs to find our dogs bottom to bottom but stuck together with my little boy’s twinkle twisted around and stuck in my little girl’s lady garden. This is a common thing when mating has taken place, and you can imagine it was quite painful for both dogs! I performed the old wives’ tale and threw a bowl of cold water over them, was subsequently told that was what you do if you catch them before the act was done! So anyway, all was needed to separate them was a little calm and patience and when my boy calmed they parted. So now it’s very obvious that had I left her smelling as she usually does he wouldn’t have been attracted to her but spraying her with a lovely lemon scent made her irresistible to him! So I was very worried that puppies were now going to ‘happen’ but when I realised it was MIL’s birthday, I was beside myself with glee because the old c*w would be having a fit when she sound out. And so she did, much to my amusement and 9 weeks later 6 gorgeous puppies arrived and better still I didn’t want to make money out of them, I gave them away to 5 (😁) loving homes and asked the people who wanted to pay me to put the money toward vaccination, worming and flea treatment, so MIL didn’t see us making any profit and I kept one of the pups so we ended up with 3 dogs😂😂😂

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Because of Catorze’s allergies we keep scented products to a minimum here. I wear perfume probably twice a year, and I put it on on a work day so I’m out of the house for much of the time and minimising contact with him.

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    2. M - avatar

      That’s funny. My mom’s dog used to roll around on her bath mat after she’d apply either perfume or bath splash. He loved the scent!

      My cat, on the other hand, cannot tolerate even lotion on my hands. I have to throoughly wash them when giving him treats. Fussy little puzzle box!

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      1. iamthesunking avatar
        iamthesunking

        Really? He would refuse a treat if it were fed to him with lotiony hands? 😱

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        1. M - avatar

          Any kind of scent on my fingers is off-putting – unless it’s tuna. lol

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          1. iamthesunking avatar
            iamthesunking

            Even if it’s fragrance-free hand cream?

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            1. M - avatar

              Well, I wouldn’t know. I love lavender-scented anything. I’m not about to change my toiletries to suit his royal majesty, The Prince. I’d rather scrub up. ≋;>

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            2. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              And lavender is such an innocuous scent!

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            3. Penny Cooper avatar
              Penny Cooper

              Lololol it’s definitely not innocuous to me or one of my daughters, she couldn’t breathe in her bedroom when in to a cottage with a lavender bush in the back garden and it wasn’t until she came in the back way after school one day and immediately got the breathing problem that I realised the lavender bush was the culprit! Dug it up and she got better!!

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            4. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              Oh no! I’ve never known anyone to be allergic to lavender!

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  8. cat9984 avatar

    Perhaps there was something especially tasty in there? We had a cat who would take out the pork chop bones. (Although she just reached into the top.)

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      She would reach into … a casserole?

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      1. cat9984 avatar

        No, the trash. 🙂

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          😬😬😬

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