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Le cristal royal (Partie 2)

Merde, merde and thrice merde: Louis Catorze’s fancy drinking glasses aren’t working.

For reasons that I cannot fathom – and, having observed him drinking, I am none the wiser – he spills water everywhere when using them. He never did this from his previous straight-up-and-down glass.

Cat Daddy was convinced that a funnel shape and a shallow depth made for “choppier waves” (?) when the little sod stuck his snout in to drink. However, Cat-Disliking Friend – a science teacher – had the opposite view, i.e. that a funnel-shaped glass ought to spill LESS water than a straight one, as the volume at the top is greater than the volume at the base.

“Just put less water in” was his advice. “Also, why the **** does your cat have a wine glass? Is he a count?”

Well, it’s funny he should say that …

So Catorze has managed to achieve the following:

⁃ Misused something that we bought for him

⁃ Defied the very laws of science

⁃ Been called a name starting with C and ending in T

So nothing new to report at Le Château, then.

Anyway, I have promised CDF a video of Catorze drinking, so that he can see how much of the snout is shoved into the glass and use the information to provide a theory on the water displacement.

He can’t wait.

Explain THIS, science!
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19 responses to “Le cristal royal (Partie 2)”

  1. Lou Carreras avatar
    Lou Carreras

    Your colleague is guilty of Lèse-majesté, lucky fo him Catorze is a kind forgiving monarch ( a paid political announcement by the Committee to Restore the Monarchy…to cats).

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Hahaha! Who might the committee members be, I wonder? 🤔

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      1. Lou Carreras avatar
        Lou Carreras

        Marcus and Sabrina swore me to secrecy !

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          They’ve threatened you, haven’t they?

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          1. Lou Carreras avatar
            Lou Carreras

            They stood there flicking their claws in and out like little switchblades…it was awful!

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  2. cat9984 avatar
    cat9984

    Does he stick his paw into it to determine the depth? Snoops makes a terrible mess that way sometimes

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      No, he doesn’t. Weirdly, the mess only ever happens when I’m not there. When I see him drinking, it’s fine. But when he drinks when I’m not around, there’s a lake of water around the base of the glass.

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  3. Audrey Driscoll avatar
    Audrey Driscoll

    Hmm. I await elucidation of this mystery.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      As with most Catorzian mysteries, we might be waiting a while …

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  4. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Poor Louis. Water in glasses can work in mysterious ways. Yet, Louis seems to enjoy drinking from his new one.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      He does like it. He has refused some drinking vessels completely so I guess I’m lucky he’s accepted this one!

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  5. Dr. CaSo avatar
    Dr. CaSo

    Rosie makes a huge mess when she eat, she likes to grab some (dry or wet) food and then move away from the bowl to eat it, but half of it falls to the ground, and then again and again… I wish it were water, trust me! Also, I think I know the name Louis’s been called “starting with C and ending in T”: it’s CAT, isn’t it? I’m so smart 😉

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Erm … it’s not cat.

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  6. Kate Crimmins avatar
    Kate Crimmins

    OMG! Not sure my cats would know how to drink from that. Gus has put is (dirty) paw in my water glass and licked the water from his paw. That’s as mysterious as we get about water here.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Le Roi has only ever drunk from glasses. He refuses bowls. 🙄

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  7. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    Come on you knew this would happen surely??? I now have to feed Merlot in a shallow cat (that’s no surprise eh?) food bowl made from bamboo so he can see the food, I also have to scrape the food into a mountain a few times so that he feels confident to pick it up with no teeth. Obviously this results in food falling out of the bowl all round and obviously he has to be fed on the sofa and obviously this has to be on a ruched up blanket to give an appropriate tilt where one side is straight ownt in front of him and obviously I must be sat beside him, just so any stray food can get on my clothes and obviously I must at least be drinking, preferably eating for the whole duration, whether 10 20 or 30 minutes he spends accidentally patting the food flat with his nose and needing me to refluff it up into a mountain with obviously my fingers when I obviously forget to take a fork to the sofa and dare not go back to the kitchen until he flops down beside me obviously expecting me to congratulate him on eating his own dinner whether I have had to feed it to his mouth with my fingers and fluff it up with whatever! By this time I have usually consumed a cup of tea, fallen asleep a few times, eaten my own food or congratulated myself for my attentive perseverance with an ice cream that obviously he expects a tiny blob on the stick or the card circle that covered my cone. In the light of all of this I think your little boy is not a word beginning with a c and ending with a t but Merlot wins that award hands down although I reserve this word for use in my head those who REALLY annoy me to my face 😜 I have also bought myself a badge with a hippo saying Don’t Be A Hippotwatimus for when I struggle to keep that word in my head and not let it roll off the tongue in some grand gesture to confirm to the person that they have royally pissed me off

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I’m telling you, Merlot is a secret cat!

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  8. Doug Thomas avatar
    Doug Thomas

    My Persian kitty boy, Andy, has been a good water drinker since kittenhood, and he has had water available the whole time in a fountain. However, his fuzzy face always soaks up water like a sponge and he always walks over to me and shakes it off where I can enjoy getting cat water all over me and whatever is in front of me at the time. If I’m not available, he shakes it off on the carpet where I’ll find it barefoot.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Aww! His face soaks up water! 🤣🤣🤣 Is that on account of having a flat face?

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