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A couple of days ago I saw Louis Catorze sitting at the back door, screaming, because he couldn’t get in. And, when I say, “couldn’t get in”, I mean that the cleaner had just mopped the floor and he didn’t want to get his feet wet. 

I know. 

So he just sat at the back door, screaming himself senseless, presumably until either the floor dried or someone picked him up and brought him in, whichever came first. I would have videoed it had I not been mortally embarrassed because the cleaner was there. (And no, I refused to pick him up.)

No less than twenty minutes later, Cat Daddy cleared some fox poo from the garden, then poured water on the area so that we would know not to tread there. (It’s just non-stop glamour here at Le Château.)

You know where this is going, don’t you? 

Oh yes: Catorze happily walked through the fox-shitty water without even flicking a whisker. He then tried to settle first on my lap (denied), then on Cat Daddy’s (also denied), and finally had to make do with here: 

Don’t come any closer.

So, a clean-but-damp floor: non.

Fox-shitty water: OUAIS. 

The thought of Catorze in my bed with those gross feet makes me want to die. Not as much, however, as the thought of the YEARS he’s already spent in my bed with those gross feet. But what can we do about it, other than investing in a cat-sized one of those germ-zapping foot baths that you walk through before getting into the main swimming pool? 

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17 responses to “Le plancher est de l’eau”

  1. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    Isn’t this the same Puddy-Dry-Foot who insisted on going out in a downpour last week ? Yeh, then he was under a table, but certainly the surface under his paddy-paws was damp.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Exactly! Nobody understands this. It’s completely bizarre!

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  2. Kate Crimmins avatar

    I know how you feel. It’s exactly how I felt when I found out that Gus was drinking out of my water glass and I didn’t know it so I drank from it too. Yuck! He did it by putting his paw in it and licking it off. Yes, that’s the same paw he used in the litter box.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Nooooo! 😱😱😱

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  3. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    According to me, it looks as if the cleaner isn’t Louis’s friend as anyone else who enters your place.
    As to investing in a paw bath, aren’t you afraid of Louis drinking some water meant to disinfect his paws?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Eurgh, he would do exactly that!

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  4. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    Maybe you should get Louis some booties like they have for dogs? I’m sure he’d love them just as much as dogs do.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I thought those were only for special dogs, like ones who work for the fire service? Are they available for just random animals?

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      1. sevencatsandcounting avatar

        But of course! They protect delicate paws from getting frostbite in the winter months. In Louis’ case, I guess they would protect him from clean water.

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  5. RasmaSandra avatar

    SIGH cats. My Tish is a strange one for about a week she stood with her two front paws in the water bowl I have for the cats drinking water. Who knows what she was thinking. Now since it is hot here and I keep dropping ice cubes in their water bowl she drinks normally. Her brother Freddie must have a hot tail. He drinks up all the water he wants and then lets his tail droop into the water and holds it there for a while, I am so glad that I do not share that water bowl,

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Hahaha, my friend sent me a pic today of her cat dangling his tail in his water! He didn’t even appear to know he was doing it.

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  6. Charles Huss avatar

    That behavior is a little extreme but cats can be weird. Maybe a long floor mat by the door will help take some of that crud off his feet.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He’s probably done this a thousand times before. It’s too late.

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  7. cat9984 avatar

    Ooh. A sonic cleaner for cats. What a great idea!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      That is actually a brilliant idea!

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  8. Marie-Luce, miaougraphe avatar

    😆 Louis-Catorze never cease to amaze me. Wet and clean floor are too much for him… I would say that at least you don’t have to worry about him trailing dirt on the drying floor, but him trailing watery fox-droppings particles on freshly clean floor is definitely not a better outcome.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Fox-dropping particles! 🤢🤢🤢

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