Someone has advertised their professional cleaning services on our local neighbourhood forum, including before and after shots of what they’ve been able to achieve.
I stopped scrolling after a few because some of the “before” shots were truly stomach-churning. One of the less awful ones showed a carpet covered in mud, with a cat sitting beside it. And the person posting has used the iPhone markup tool to obscure the identity of the cat:
I have questions:
⁃ Is it the same deal with cats as with kids, i.e. bad form to post their photos online without the parents’ (humans’) permission?
⁃ Did the cat make the mess? If my cat had done this to my house, I’d be naming and shaming the little weasel for all to see.
⁃ In the unlikely event that the cat didn’t make the mess, why photograph him next to it? That seems an odd thing to do.
Unfortunately the original poster’s markup tool skills are not up to much because, although they’ve obscured the cat SOMEWHAT, they’ve left enough of him visible to tell us all that he’s a ginge with white paws. So now I’m going to be scouring the neighbourhood on the lookout for this carpet-muddying miscreant, and eyeing every ginger and white cat with suspicion.
And, yes, I am relieved that it’s not a black cat, which would have made people wonder whether this were my house. Most who know me would know that this wasn’t, but the idea of Louis Catorze making a hideous mess in someone else’s house is not utterly ridiculous.
Here is Catorze, relaxing in the knowledge that, for once, nobody thinks it’s him. Mind you, he’d be adopting this very same pose even if they did:
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