You’ve always known that Louis Catorze is a creepy little sod.

However, I’m about to show you an example of kitty creepiness that is common among all of them. ALL OF THEM. They may not always demonstrate it but it’s there, lying dormant until it suddenly breaks through the surface at a moment when you are home alone and feeling especially jumpy.

This is what Catorze’s ears look like when he’s sleeping normally. The Catorzian default/baseline position, if you will:

Nothing to see here …

And this is what they looked like sometime later, when Cat Daddy arrived home and was parking the car:

But plenty to hear, apparently.

Cat Daddy, later: “But I parked on the other side of the road. He can’t have heard or known.”

Oh, but he did.

Does your cat ever greet you when you walk through the front door, having seemingly arrived there in suspiciously quick time? If so, they knew that you were coming long before your key went into your door. They’re all at it.

He heard his daddy coming back long before I did.

I know: it’s creepy as hell. But, since they’re in our houses and won’t be moving out anytime soon, what can we do about it?

Bonus photo of Catorze’s cat-auntie Zelva, who can differentiate between sets of KEYS. She runs to either the back door or the front, depending on which keys she hears my mum pick up.

For more Catorzian capers, please visit http://louiscatorze.com

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28 responses to “Chuchoter à l’oreille du diable”

  1. Lou Carreras avatar

    You are correct! And at our house the dog, Ma is helping his brother and bestie, Marcus get a good command on the sounds that mean food in the kitchen. It’s a deep conspiracy!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Ohhh. When dogs and cats are conspiring together, that’s bad.

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  2. ddonkerbrook avatar
    ddonkerbrook

    Just Thank You! I so enjoy your stories about louiscatorze. Animals are so wonderful. It is great that Catorze has you to worry about him and document his every move. And it is great that you share him with me.

    Donna

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoy Catorzian exploits so much.

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  3. M - avatar

    We lived with cats who definitely know the sound of one our cars – especially ones that I drove.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      It’s scary, isn’t it? What’s especially weird is that we’ve changed cars since having Catorze and he knew both.

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      1. M - avatar

        Most humans don’t know that a cat’s hearing is incredible.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          Yet when I’m telling him to get the hell off the kitchen worktop, suddenly he goes deaf.

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          1. M - avatar

            In my experience cats (like men) have selective hearing.

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  4. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Cats have psychic abilities. They know we are coming back thanks to them. Louis is listening to his daddy’s car only to have a confirmation of what he already knew.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Aww. So he trusts us to come back to him?

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      1. mmechapeau avatar
        mmechapeau

        Aren’t we humble servants?

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          Or just really stupid.

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  5. Kate Crimmins avatar

    I had a cat a long time ago that could hear me entering the driveway to the detached garage. She wasn’t allowed on the kitchen table. One day she must have been really tired from doing nothing all morning. I parked and walked in to find her fast asleep on the kitchen table as it she did it all time. I’m pretty sure she did and would get off when she heard the car.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      They are creepily psychic. 😱😱😱

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  6. alicephilippa avatar
    alicephilippa

    Baggyarse is waiting at the front door before I’ve opened it. No matter how quiet I am he’s there before I’ve I’ve put the key in the door.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Hahaha! Cat Daddy once opened the bedroom door “so quietly that not even he heard it himself” and Catorze was there in seconds, screaming his guts out.

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  7. Bismarck avatar

    One of my former cats used to go out and wait for the car in the garden, in order to greet us back home…

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Awww! That’s so sweet!

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  8. cat9984 avatar

    We need to make sure they’re on our side for the zombie apocalypse

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      You know that won’t happen!

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  9. Belle avatar
    Belle

    My neighbors’ 2 older female cats would be waiting for me at the elevator each day when I returned from work. They didn’t do this for him, though. 😹🤷

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Oh my goodness! 🤣🤣🤣 What treacherous little sods! Mind you, that’s the sort of thing Le Roi would do. I can totally see him waiting for the neighbour down the street but not me.

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  10. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    Dogs also do this. When my husband is out, I sometimes check on the pack’s reaction to determine how soon he’ll walk through the door. Typically, festivities commence when he’s a block or two away and ramp up rapidly.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I need to see these festivities!

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  11. Marie-Luce, miaougraphe avatar

    Clément was like that, by the door or really close by when we came home. But he was waiting for the doorbell to ring or a knock to go to the door if it wasn’t us…

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Creepy Kitty Sixth Sense! They’re all at it!

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