Shadow the black Labrador’s folks have given me a cat modelling kit. It is designed to be for human use (obviously), not for cats, but Louis Catorze has decided that the plasticine effigy of him is his new favourite toy.

He has knocked it to the floor at least 5,317 times since I made it in November. As a result it’s no longer the pristine work of art that it was when first created, but I don’t suppose Catorze cares. In fact, Cat Daddy thinks that, the more the little sod batters it, the more Catorzian it becomes.

My thoughts then turned to Catorze and how he came to be created. Clearly he wasn’t born of any species known to zoological science, so then how?
(And, more importantly, why?)
I have narrowed down the infinite possibilities for The Creation of Catorze to the scenarios below … and I even had to reword the instructions for one of them, as they contravened Bing’s decency standards. (Yes, this is really true. I wish I’d kept a screen shot of the warning issued, just for the comedy value.)
Which do you feel is the most likely of these three scenarios? Incidentally, at no point did I state that the fanged black cat had to be screaming; it seems that the BingBot knows Catorze well and gave me what he does best.


Frankenstein: “It’ll all go horribly wrong.”
Monster: [Does it himself.]
Frankenstein: “I TOLD YOU.”

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