What are you good at?
Not applying cat sunblock, that’s for sure.
This is the face – or, rather, the rear end – of someone who has just fought like an absolute demon to try and prevent me from applying his sunblock on his ears:
My friend, who is a dog person: “Does he NEED sunblock? I mean, he wouldn’t be stupid enough to sit out in the hot sun and bake himself to death, would he?”
Me: “…”
Him: “Oh, right.”
I have to have the tube of sunblock next to me, ready for the stealth pounce. But the problem is that, on account of Louis Catorze having two ears, and on account of a surprise ambush only really being a surprise one time, one ear is absolutely impossible to do. Once he has twigged what’s happening, he kind of folds his ears downwards to stop me from putting sunblock on the very part that really, really needs it.
This particular session was a real gladiatorial fight to the death, with sunblock smeared on me, on his head and body, on the sofa … in fact, everywhere but the one place where it was meant to go. After trying to roll it off onto every available surface, the little sod decided to sit facing the other way and sulk.
We have a whole summer of this to look forward to. Luckily we will be away for two weeks of it, but dare we ask the chat-sitteur to do this in our absence? We would quite like to keep her friendship, merci s’il vous plaît …
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