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Tell us about the last thing you got excited about

PART SIX. WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Well, this prompt is easy for Louis Catorze for answer: it was salmon. Yes, again.

Remember when I told you that we could no longer eat smoked salmon in this house ever again? Well, it seems that not even bog-standard canned salmon is safe; I have just been subjected to the most terrifying screaming and physical assault because Catorze wanted my dinner and I wasn’t giving in.

First his head swivelled round and round like Regan from The Exorcist, trying to find the source of the irresistible smell. Then, when he realised it was me (well, not ME – you know what I mean), that was it: I was stomped upon, headbutted and screamed at. A couple of times, he took a break from his attack to go to his own bowl. But, when he realised that it only contained plebby Orijen, he came back to ambush me again.

Cat Daddy: “See what you’ve done?”

Me: “WHAT? I’m just sitting here trying to eat my dinner!”

Him: “You left that smoked salmon out. You put out a bowl for him, in his room*. You’ve created a monster.”

*This is the first time I’ve heard that the living room is Catorze’s room, but tant pis.

Saint Jésus et tous ses anges: smoked salmon and canned salmon are not REMOTELY the same thing! However, what matters is that nobody has told Catorze this. And, if we try, he just screams more loudly, in a “Laaa laaa, not listening!” kind of way. 

I was able to get some small snippets of the drama on video (not an easy feat, when also trying to keep an irresistible plate away from the attacker):

Make it stop.
MAKE IT STOP.

And there was also this face:

Fangs.

I managed to eat my dinner – just about – but, in my haste to do so, I gave myself awful indigestion afterwards.

I shall say it again: this is our life now. And that’s a very scary thought indeed. 

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25 responses to “Ni manger, ni vivre (Partie 6)”

  1. M - avatar

    Poor Louis. His “screaming” is more of a plaintive meow. I love it.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Don’t feel sorry for him! He is bullying us!

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      1. M - avatar

        He’s so precious.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          He’s a shite.

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  2. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    I wwas about to suggest you shut him out of ‘his’ room while you ate, but then I realised he would probably employ a biblical battering ram similar to that of Joshua and as the song goes… ‘and the walls cane tumbling down’!!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I can see him doing that! But, regretfully, I fear that things are going that way. I used to be able to eat my dinner as he slept on my lap. No more!

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  3. fatdormouse avatar

    Pomme used to swipe food off the fork as it was twixt plate and mouth. Millie will sit on the footstool and v-e-r-y slowly reach out a paw to swipe the nearest thing to her – it doesn’t matter what it is. Olive stones, peas, fat cut off, a blob of gravy…she’ll try to stealthily steal it. “MILLIE!” we roar and the paw retreats for about 5 seconds. Sigh.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Olive stones! Peas! 🤣🤣🤣

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  4. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    I utterly agree with you. Smoked salmon and canned salmon have neither the same smell, nor the same taste. But, the sooner you accept your new lot, the easier it will be. What about giving Louis a serving of salmon in his own bowl when you eat some of it?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Absolutely not a chance! That would be like digging my own grave!

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    2. sevencatsandcounting avatar

      I agree with this advice. Sharing was the only way I was able to partake of salmon sashimi when Quicksilver was in the picture.

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      1. iamthesunking avatar

        But if Catorze thinks salmon will come his way every time we eat, he will stop eating his Orijen. He went on hunger strike for two days the last time.

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        1. sevencatsandcounting avatar

          My bad! I forgot about the hunger strikes.

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          1. iamthesunking avatar

            Yup. He would rather starve than have imperfect food.

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  5. Dr. CaSo avatar

    Poor baby, I’m totally on his side, you were cruel to tempt him like that and selfish not to share 😛 Please FedEx the poor thing to Canada right away so I can treat him like the king he is!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      With pleasure! YOU try being bullied every time you eat! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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  6. Kate Crimmins avatar

    No salmon for you! Does Orijen have a salmon flavor?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      It can do, yes. There’s a fish variant, a game one, a red meat one and one for fat cats. 🤣🤣🤣

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  7. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    Clearly that is a starving kitty.

    “Bog-quality canned salmon” is all we ever have here (and it isn’t getting any cheaper !) and the kitties are attracted – but a bit more politely than Louis.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He certainly isn’t starving. His screams are all lies.

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  8. cat9984 avatar

    Does his food come in a salmon variety? (That’s probably not close enough to the real thing for him, is it?)

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He already has the fish variant of Orijen. He’s very much a pescatarian, apart from when he eats jambon de Bayonne.

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  9. Aspasía S. Bissas avatar

    This might be a strange question, but is it possible he has some kind of nutritional imbalance that the salmon would help? His sudden obsession with salmon has to have some reason behind it (maybe?)

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Ha. I bet that’s the story he tells everyone!

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