One of my friends has just been over for our annual cemetery visit and horror fest. (I’m not joking: this is actually what we do together, every October, and it’s become a much-loved tradition.)

Because she has chat-sat Louis Catorze in the past, he knows her well and loves her visits, so I fully expected him to show off in front of her. But I didn’t think things would take THIS kind of turn, despite the fact that embarrassing behaviour is quite the Catorzian trademark.

Obviously there was the usual screaming. But, when we settled down to watch the first of our horror films, the little sod jumped up onto the coffee table where my friend was resting her feet, and deployed that all-too-familiar Hork Hork sound, along with accompanying funky chicken head movements pointed straight at her feet. 

I was just about to tell her not to be concerned because Catorze often Hork Horks, only for it to be a false alarm. Fortunately, however, my friend was blessed with more foresight than I and chose to move her feet away. Just as she did so, the little sod puked all over the coffee table and on the ruinously-expensive Harris tweed cushion upon which he was perched, RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR GUEST.

My friend is a cat person so she wasn’t fazed by this in the slightest, despite the fact that Catorze had been aiming for her feet and had done everything possible to give her a ringside seat for this horror show. I, however, want to take a walk into a wooded area and die of embarrassment. Imagine the shame of your cat trying deliberately to puke on your friend’s feet … and being incompetent enough to miss. 

Cat Daddy: “That’s it: we’re never having friends round again. Or we’re rehoming him. One or the other.”

I’ll let you know when he’s decided which option he’s chosen.

Absolute bastard cat.

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

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32 responses to “Les petits pieds du bonheur”

  1. Kate Crimmins avatar

    We all know. Neither one.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He’s very tempted by one of the options!

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  2. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    Thanks be to Bast and Sekhmet that your friend is a cat person.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I know! Imagine the horror if not!

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  3. M - avatar

    “Hork Hork” lol

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      A sound that we all know and love!

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      1. M - avatar

        I forgot to ask what movie(s) you watched.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          Oh my goodness, they MESSED ME UP and I couldn’t sleep! The Poughkeepsie Tapes and When Evil Lurks.

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          1. M - avatar

            Yeah, I’m not much on serial killer movies or TV shows.

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            1. iamthesunking avatar

              I normally like them, but maybe close to bedtime on a school night was a stupid idea!

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  4. maggiemcg05 avatar
    maggiemcg05

    It seems as if Catorze is

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  5. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    It will be tough to surpass this new feat. But according to me, Dear Louis wasn’t incompetent. He was lucky to miss your friend’s feet because it would have been worse if he didn’t.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      She was quick-thinking enough to move!

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    2. mmechapeau avatar
      mmechapeau

      Everyone who is a cat person knows what a « Hork Hork » sound means.

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      1. iamthesunking avatar

        Yup. Nothing springs us into action like that sound, and the Funky Chicken head movements.

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  6. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    Oh mmy god sooo embarrassing, bad enough that he did it on a coffee table and cushion but in front of a visitor… Just wondering, she hadn’t by any chance washed her feet in holy water?? Bless him he probably just wanted to complete the horror experience? My neighbour went on a walk in Saturday evening in the most haunted village of Pluckley not many miles from where I live. She said ‘it’s OK, at the end the guide told the spirits who had been taking them around to go back to where they belong and not to follow any of us walkers or bother us further’… In the few horror films I’ve seen I can’t say that the spirits seem that inclined to do as they’re told??? 😱😱😱

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Ooh, I’ve heard so much about Pluckley! I’d love to go there!

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      1. Penny Cooper avatar
        Penny Cooper

        I have been many times to walk dogs in the woods, obviously BEFORE I knew anything about ghosts etc., I get creepy spooked if I drive through there! Yes I expect you would love to go on a tour! https://www.pluckleyghostwalk.co.uk/

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          I’m sure I’d get spooked too, but I still want to do it!

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          1. Penny Cooper avatar
            Penny Cooper

            Then yyou need to come down here and do it in half term?? Perfect time of year to do it!!

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            1. iamthesunking avatar

              I’d love to but I can’t this half term. Deffo another one though!

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            2. Penny Cooper avatar
              Penny Cooper

              👍👍

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  7. Sally Goodman avatar
    Sally Goodman

    Did your cushion survive? With 6 in my gang, I keep throws over my sofa, chair and cushions to minimise exactly this risk!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      It’s a stupid idea, isn’t it, having nice things in the house? I need to laminate everything.

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  8. cat9984 avatar

    Perhaps he was commenting on the movie you were watching.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      We’d only just started! We were about 2 minutes in!

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      1. cat9984 avatar

        He’s a cat. He has lots of comments. 🙂

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          He’s a bastard cat.

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  9. Dr. CaSo avatar

    Rosie very rarely pukes, thank goodness, but when she does, she also finds the most annoying place to do it. I think all cats have an instinct to feel exactly where we do NOT want them to do it and do it exactly there!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      They do! Always on carpets. They even move away from floors and make a special effort to puke on carpets.

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      1. Audrey Driscoll avatar

        I noticed this too when there were cats in the household. I think they need something to sink their claws into while going through the convulsions of puking.

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