What food would you say is your speciality?

All of it. Just give Louis Catorze all the food.

I dropped my phone into my breakfast the other day, sending yogurt flying in all directions. Because I was too lazy to clean it all up myself, I picked Catorze up and plonked him onto the table, like a living, screaming, self-operating mop. 

Cat Daddy, absolutely disgusted: “Eurgh. His germs are going to be all over the table!”

Me: “Obviously I’m going to spray and wipe down the table after he’s finished. I’m not going to leave it all cat-spitty.”

Him: “And you’re encouraging him to eat human food – AGAIN.”

Merde. I didn’t think of that. This is exactly the opposite of what we ought to be doing.

Anyway, Catorze guzzled down the yogurt as fast as he could, as if worried that I might change my mind. And, credit where it’s due: the little sod did a grand job of getting rid of every trace of yogurt. Well, apart from this one: 

You missed a bit.

Now, I guess, it’s a waiting game, to see if the food-bullying is worse as a result of the yogurt incident. That said, I’m struggling to think of what could possibly be worse than being headbutted, stamped upon and screamed at when you’re trying to eat your dinner. 

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27 responses to “Ni manger, ni vivre (Partie 14) ”

  1. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    Sunny is our clean up crew. If anything at all drops to the floor during mealtime, he’ll take of it, even if it’s something totally unappetizing like a leaf of lettuce or a bite of broccoli. Sunny is a very good dog.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Good boy, Sunny!

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  2. Audrey Driscoll avatar

    Our Newfoundland dog, Nelly, gets to lick out yogurt tubs when they’re almost empty. I have photos of her with yogurt face. Louis is much more elegant here!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Aww, I want to see the yogurt face!

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      1. Audrey Driscoll avatar

        I will have to dig out one of the photos.

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            1. iamthesunking avatar

              I actually spat my water all over my phone when I saw this! 🤣🤣🤣

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            2. Audrey Driscoll avatar

              My apologies. 🤣

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  3. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    When it agrees, a cat can work as a good dishcloth. Unfortunately, some cats don’t deign to do it.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      A good dishcloth! 🤣🤣🤣

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  4. Kate Crimmins avatar

    Having it happen when you eat your breakfast!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I KNOW. 😩😩😩

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  5. Dr. CaSo avatar

    Ohhh he’s so funny, love the pic 😀 Miss Penny used to clean the empty yogurt tubs, and she’d have yogurt all the way into her ears, it was hilarious!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He’s a little shit.

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  6. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    I mmust admit I began reading and was amazed that you put him on the table, but only that you put him on there, I was impressed by the fact that you thought to use him to clean up after you because when you do so much for him it’s only fair. Then I realised what a blunder you have made… You realise every time you sit at the table he’s going to land on it, flying on from whatever direction he’s coming from… Even dirty/wet/contaminated from the great outside??! That’s where I’m ok, Merlot expects everything to be given to him directly and even if I dropped his favourite substance (no idea what that could be?!) directly on the floor beside him he is most unlikely to help himself, I have to virtually beg him to pick food up from the floor! The only floor/place he scavenges from is the carers office because throughout their long shifts they have to eat quickly in case they get called to an unpleasant situation (!) so there’s sometimes crumbs aplenty, he would ransack their bin if they don’t stop him in time, he also would go down to our bistro and check that floor out if it wasn’t so clean smelling since we got a wonderful new cleaner after a year of my complaints and 4 different cleaners coming for a rest and a chat with residents rather than give keep our building looking clean, smart and welcoming! So now he doesn’t even try to escape his harness to go down there!!

    Good luck with your meal times now, I think you’ve REALLY GONE AND DONE IT this time and Cat Daddy will be blaming you for everything now, Louis will be seen as a hapless victim of your doings!!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I really HAVE gone and done it. 🤦‍♀️

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  7. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    Hopefully you also had Louis lick your phone clean, probably the least invasive way of cleaning off an expensive piece of electronics without causing damage from water or solvents.

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  8. cat9984 avatar

    Hopefully, he won’t connect the yogurt with the food he wants you to share.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Yeah, I also hope he realises that this was a household task and not a treat!

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  9. alicephilippa avatar
    alicephilippa

    If you now have to hold him off with one hand whilst you attempt to rapidly shovel your breakfast in you know who’s fault it is. For a cat who isn’t motivated by food, he’s doing a good job of being motivated by food.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Cat Daddy blames me too, all because of The Great Salmon Grab.

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  10. Sally Goodman avatar
    Sally Goodman

    That face!!!!!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      The face of a complete shite.

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  11. Phil Taylor avatar

    Louis sounds just like my cat, who is happy to clean the sink overnight if I have left even a drop of any kind of human food in there.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Any food? Where does he draw the line? (Is there even a line?)

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      1. Phil Taylor avatar

        I have yet to find anything he won’t eat

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