A couple of nights ago, Cat Daddy and I settled down on the sofa to watch the latest series of Unforgotten on Netflix. Usually, when we watch television in the evenings, Louis Catorze is on his papa’s lap. But, this time, we didn’t know where he was.
Cat Daddy, a few minutes into the first episode: “This isn’t right. He’s always with us in the evenings.”
Me: “It’s fine. He’s probably arsing around outside somewhere.”
Him: “This sort of thing isn’t like him.”
Me: “What do you mean? It’s EXACTLY like him.”
Him: “Something’s wrong. We need to go and look for him.”
Cat Daddy, might I add, was a couple of bottles of wine under at the time, and in no fit state to be going up and down stairs looking for Catorze. So, when he said “WE need to go and look for him”, we both knew that he meant just me.
My strategy was to start searching in the places that I really didn’t want him to be and, would you believe, he was in the first/only place that I looked: on top of a freshly-cleaned duvet (not a duvet COVER, but an ACTUAL DUVET) which is now no longer clean.
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I brought the little sod downstairs and placed him into the lap of his overjoyed papa. After a little Boys’ Club drunken roughhousing and some name-calling of the Unrepeatable Expletive variety, the two of them were friends again and snuggled up together to continue watching Unforgotten.
Cat Daddy will always try to have people believe that, of the two of us, I am the one who is obsessed with Catorze and who frets about him every waking minute.
May this post serve as proof that it’s all lies.
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He found the softest spot in the house for a nap!
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He did. The one spot where we didn’t want him to go.
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Because cat…..
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That excuse just isn’t going to wash anymore!
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And the cleanest!
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Not anymore.
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Louis has some model-worthy cheekbones.
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I think it’s his old man scragginess coming through!
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I’m glad, for your sake, that he was easily found. And your husband sounds like a type man – caring very much while pretending he doesn’t.
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Next time he can go and search!
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Congratulations for that brisk investigation. Both Cat Daddy and Louis are lucky to live with such a devoted lady.
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It was an investigation which absolutely didn’t need to happen!
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Yet, it enabled you to see King Louis sleeping on a white throne 😺
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Hahaha… Louis got a good taste for chasing a place to sleep! 😉
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chasing= CHOOSE ! Spellingchecker… 😦
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Erm … 😬
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Cat 101: the likelihood of a cat to sit or sleep on something increases in direct proportion to our desire for the cat NOT to sit or sleep on that particular thing.
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Ah, in the UK we call it Little Sods’ Law, of which there are many clauses. And it is subject to change without notice.
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Louis knows how to yank everybody’s chain. Viva le chat !
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I knew he was trolling us. This is all Cat Daddy’s fault.
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He just wants to make sure you still love him
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He knows. He struts around knowing this.
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