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L’armée féline

30/12/2023

What could you do less of?
(This is terrible English but I’m just going to go with it.)

The good thing about being a king is that, if you don’t want to do something, you can always ask one of your underlings to do it for you.

These days, it’s far too cold to be sitting outside on Rodent Duty. It’s great fun during the summer months, but it loses its appeal during the winter. So how marvellous it is to have a bank of replacements on whom one can rely.

Cat Daddy spotted this fine feline outside, appearing to assume Louis Catorze’s favourite position for Rodent Duty:

We have never seen this cat before. And I would be prepared to bet Le Château on us never seeing him/her again.

Where does Catorze store this secret army? And will he be summoning its soldiers to fight alongside him when The Uprising is upon us?

*He’s too good for all this manual labour.*

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23 responses to “L’armée féline”

M –

30/12/2023

I LOVE that picture of him. It’s glorious.

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1. iamthesunking
  
  30/12/2023
  
  This is him pictured on one of his casual dress-down days. 🤣🤣🤣
  
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Marie-Luce, miaougraphe

30/12/2023

On guard duty, that fellow cat was. Louis-Catorze’s influence is wide-reaching…

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1. iamthesunking
  
  30/12/2023
  
  Or maybe Catorze is just lazy!
  
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  1. Marie-Luce, miaougraphe
    
    31/12/2023
    
    But he does strike me as a fairly active cat, for a lazy one…
    
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Lou Carreras

30/12/2023

the Revolution most certainly will be televised – the felines will take over the TV stations and it will be amusing cat videos 24/7. The indoctrination will begin at once!

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1. iamthesunking
  
  30/12/2023
  
  And you are doubly at risk as you have two of them!
  
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  1. Lou Carreras
    
    30/12/2023
    
    The Gray Menace got to me years ago. the current bunch have it easy I have been pre-trained.
    
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    1. iamthesunking
      
      30/12/2023
      
      Oh, that’s true! They couldn’t have had a more powerful kitty to get the process going!
      
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      1. Lou Carreras
        
        30/12/2023
        
        Yes! You have Louis, and I had Clancy.
        
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        iamthesunking
        
        30/12/2023
        
        That means subsequent cats have to get easier, right? RIGHT? 😳
        
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        Lou Carreras
        
        30/12/2023
        
        Maybe, but there is always fine tuning needed.
        
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mmechapeau

30/12/2023

This morning, I wrote « This unidentified cat looks nice. Well done, Louis. Appointing a replacement is a great idea. ».
Didn’t you see it?

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1. iamthesunking
  
  30/12/2023
  
  Oh, I’m not sure I did. Sorry, I’m a bit slow at picking up messages sometimes!
  
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Dr. CaSo

30/12/2023

Haha, looks like a GPT-4/DALL-E picture 🙂 Very funny! I don’t think Rosie needs an army, she can do all the damage and trouble she wants alone and does it perfectly well!

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1. iamthesunking
  
  30/12/2023
  
  I know what you mean! It doesn’t look like a real photo, but it owes its interesting look to Cat Daddy’s composition (and possibly a less-than-clean kitchen window through which he took the photo!).
  
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cathysrealcountrygardencom

30/12/2023

Why would the lord of the dark go out in the cold? Shivering is for underlings!

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1. iamthesunking
  
  30/12/2023
  
  Well, quite. Instead, he is happily curled up on my lap. 🤣
  
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Belle

30/12/2023

It’s a viceroy, of course. Catorze will still take credit for any kills, while negating anything that results in negative publicity 😼

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1. iamthesunking
  
  30/12/2023
  
  He gets away with the negative publicity thanks to “It must have been some other black cat”. This chap/lady is quite distinctive.
  
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mcmcneil1

31/12/2023

“The Cat Distribution System is working.” That depiction of a royal Louis is wonderful !

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1. iamthesunking
  
  31/12/2023
  
  I think that’s what he sees when he looks in the mirror!
  
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