What brings you peace?

Peace? In this house? You must be joking.

A few days ago, a video popped up on my social media feed entitled, “How to tell if your cat is spoilt”. Obviously I need to contact Meta and ask them to check their algorithms, because that couldn’t have been intended for me.

Because I read it in a hurry, I didn’t make a note of all the points mentioned. But these are the ones that I recall: 

1. They meow a lot. 

Oh dear. That DOES sound rather like a certain cat I know. According to the maker of the video, excessive meowing means the cat is used to getting his own way and knows all the buttons to press. However, what about the cat who just wanders from room to room, screaming, just for fun?

2. They are lazy.

Now, “lazy”, to me, either means lying around like a hairball doing nothing, or not doing your designated job to the best of your ability. Louis Catorze certainly sleeps a lot, but it seems to be with the purpose of powering up for mischief. Screaming, 3am parkour, bullying us and annoying the local wildlife are certainly not “doing nothing”; this is serious action, even if it’s not the kind of action we want.

As for not doing his job properly … what even is it that Catorze is supposed to do? Can he be accused of not doing his job properly, if he doesn’t actually have one (and never did)? 

Here he is, not wanting anything, just liking the sound of his own voice. YOU try for peace, when you’re living with this: 

It’s like this all the time.
My friend, in response to this still from the above video: “Good grief. Is that AI?” Erm, no. My cat really is this weird.

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51 responses to “Le son du diable”

  1. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    With the adorable head turns, it really looked to me like le roi was checking the acoustics.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Yes! Making sure there would be maximum echo in case anyone found him not sufficiently loud.

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  2. Lou Carreras avatar

    H.I.M. Xenia would get on stairs ( great acoustics) or in the bathromm ( ditto) and sing “Arias”. Perhaps Catorze is an aficionado of, say Puccini .

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  3. M - avatar

    Louis and Ramses are brothers from another mother. Nlo, there’s nothing wrong here. Ramses whines too.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I need to see Ramses’ whines!

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      1. M - avatar

        Yeah, I haven’t gotten any videos of that. Like many cats, he refuses to “behave on cue”. I will try, though.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          A cat, refusing to behave on cue? 😱😱😱

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          1. M - avatar

            Yeah, who would’ve imagined! LOL

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  4. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Who knows? Louis’s job can be to offer you material to write a blog to entertain us and needless to say he does it masterfully 😺

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He does! 🤣🤣🤣

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  5. Herman avatar
    Herman

    Wonderful video! I’m going to play it in a loop while I’m meditating… 🙂

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Erm, it won’t send you into a pleasant state …

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  6. Charles Huss avatar

    He is quite a talker. He got Frankie’s attention.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Oh dear. I hope Frankie wasn’t upset?

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      1. Charles Huss avatar

        No. He was lying on my lap and his ears perked up when I played the video.

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  7. lifecatsotherthings avatar

    That last photograph is hilarious

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He looks quite weird, doesn’t he? Mind you, he is weird.

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  8. Kate Crimmins avatar

    You are obviously not meeting his needs.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      You have a whole gang of them! You ought to know better!

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  9. RasmaSandra avatar

    I think he could team up with my Freddie. They could be a cat duo with a number one cat hit. There have been moments I wake up at 3 AM to the wonderful vocals of Freddie who sounds like he’s singing an operatic aria hitting all the right high notes. He continues until whatever his song was is finished. Now Louis makes loud sounds so put them together with Freddie’s amazing aria tic vocals and some intended yowels in between and hey, I think we have a hit on our hands. Would just have to warn his sister Morticia to head for the hills, LOL

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Oh good grief, no! Can you imagine them together?

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      1. RasmaSandra avatar

        I’m still laughing, Thanks I needed that but an interesting thought at least.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          They will destroy humankind if they come together! It must be prevented at all costs!

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  10. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    Catorze is doing his job purrfectly – it is being King Louis !

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Perfect for him. Not so much for us.

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  11. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    This morning, Timon got the opportunity to listen to Louis’s singing exercises, but he didn’t look interested in it 😕

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Haha, really? Other friends’ cats have been highly displeased. Sa Maj is highly displeased when he hears a recording of his own voice!

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    2. mmechapeau avatar
      mmechapeau

      Timon spent last night outside. This morning, he was probably too tired to react.

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      1. iamthesunking avatar

        I’d love to know what he got up to!

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  12. mrsfiddlesticks avatar
    mrsfiddlesticks

    But all cats do have jobs! There’s the lifelong training of us humans for a start….
    Max (a previous cat of ours) was Chief Mouser to the village. His main workplace was a neighbour’s carport with loft space. He kept it free of mice for them. Very conscientiously too. I remember he always dashed off there the minute he got back from any cat spa/cattery visit. You know what the work backlog is after being away. To the tune of 5 mouse bodies placed neatly under our washing line on one occasion.
    Pippi cat is very diligent at keeping us in line here. When the boys were growing up she’d sit on their shared printer and meow until they’d done their homework. We feel she is entitled to half of their GCSEs plus college diplomas. She snoopervises any workmen we have. All small areas like under baths are checked thoroughly and she has been known to attempt to direct a plumber from the radiator he’s been repairing towards his next job of a leak under the sink.
    Both Bailey and Pippi we are sure have their own messaging service and probably talk to Larry the Downing Street Cat on important matters. I’m sure they all have conference calls to attend and there is paperwork and emails. It is a full life.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Chief Mouser to the village? The whole village? Not just your household? That is quite an impressive job!

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      1. mrsfiddlesticks avatar
        mrsfiddlesticks

        Well we saw him in that many gardens (and the pub garden) that it is entirely possible. Not a big village but even so.
        For a short while Sir Frank Williams (Formula One) lived there and Max was spotted sauntering out of that drive. I hope they had nice chats.

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  13. waleed youssief 🇪🇬 avatar
    waleed youssief 🇪🇬

    What a terrifying cat

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He absolutely is! And we have to live with him!

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  14. waleed youssief 🇪🇬 avatar
    waleed youssief 🇪🇬

    This is very difficult. May God protect you from the evil of this cat. Know that this cat is inhabited by Satan

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I know. Not much we can do about it, though!

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  15. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    Oh my goodness me, I should have realised this long long ago. Apart from looking extremely alike, except Cheeky now has a portly old lady body, there is another identical thing, that voice! And what’s more I know exactly what that voice means and you’re not going to like it!! Does he by any chance do that when Cat Daddy isn’t around?? When Alice worked nights and we still lived in the same place Cheeky used to do this cry so so sadly as soon as Alice disappeared off to work. Our front door had a small window at the top of toughened frosted glass and Cheeky would jump up and dig her claws in the bottom of the frame and hang there screaming for Alice to come back home. Eventually during the evening she would calm a bit, especially if I had material strwn across the floor trying to cut a pattern out, just as I’d smooth it all out and be ready to cut Cheeky would dive into the room, skid on the wooden flooring and slide straight into the material and scrunch it all up, leaving me struggling to keep everything in place. If Alice was 5 minutes late the hanging on the window frame and telling used to continue! So is dear Louis crying for his papa??

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Oh no, he does this when his papa is around. In fact, I’d say he was much worse when his papa is around.

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  16. Sophia avatar

    My family brings me peace. I have been writing on my blog since February 2023 and it has become an everyday task that I must do. It has become a hobby for me. Can’t believe you get 39 or more comments on your blog articles. Please help me get more comments.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I’ve been writing my blog for 10 years, so you will get more comments the longer you go! Good luck!

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  17. Shay Quinn avatar
    Shay Quinn

    Caring for my cats and tending to my garden bring me a deep sense of peace.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I want to know more about your cats!

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      1. Shay Quinn avatar
        Shay Quinn

        2 boys and a girl. Piro, Seki & Kenya are their names.

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  18. Kaayee Puzzles avatar

    I really needed to hear this today.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Haha! Imagine hearing it every day!

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  19. Marie-Luce, miaougraphe avatar

    I was meowing back to my cat when he meowed a lot. Upon reflections, I think I made the matter worse by showing that meowing a lot was expected of him 😆…

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Oh no! 🤣🤣🤣 Can’t wait to see how he responds!

      I’ve just started following your blog. Somehow I didn’t think you had one, and that you were someone on WordPress who just commented on other blogs. No idea why I thought that. Your cat is magnificent!

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      1. Marie-Luce, miaougraphe avatar

        He was and still is, in our hearts, magnificient. Thank you. As he grew older, he grew louder, always asking for wood or fresh water or to go outside 😂. But when Clément was a kitten, he was such a quiet one, it was almost spooky.

        Well, I could have just been a random commentator of WordPress 😅.

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  20. Aspasía S. Bissas avatar

    We used to worship cats as gods– they’re all spoiled! That video was asking the wrong question lol

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