I recently bought myself a lamp with a zillion different colour settings. However, I always have it on red, because red is said to counteract the negative effects of blue light from our phones, and to promote healing and relaxation. Yes, I know: since I live with Louis Catorze, I probably should have got a lamp for each room, and strapped an extra one to his head for good measure.

Cat Daddy always tells me that a red light makes Le Château look “like a brothel”. I just ignore this, although I am curious to about how he knows what a brothel looks like. 

Anyway, it turns out that Catorze likes red light almost as much as I do. After a long period of not sleeping in my bed with me and choosing, instead, to go gadding about outside all night, since I introduced wind-down period of red light before going to sleep, he’s been a constant companion. I can’t help but hope that it will have a calming effect on him, too; his screaming and galloping around have been absolutely awful recently. 

Naturellement I couldn’t resist a photo session in the red light, to add to the 12,967 photos that I already have of Catorze. I think a ruby backdrop rather suits him, non? 

The blood is life, and it shall be mine!

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20 responses to “Tu n’es pas obligé d’allumer le feu rouge”

  1. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    There is a line in a song “Your Red Scarf Matches Your Eyes.” The new bedroom ambiance certainly brings out Catorze’s.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I just hope it doesn’t backfire and make him naughtier.

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  2. Kate Crimmins avatar

    Just a little spooky too!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He was spooky even before the red light!

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      1. M - avatar

        “I like spooky.” – Trash (The Return of the Living Dead)

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  3. M - avatar

    Funny, we just replaced our purple front door light with a red one. A bit sinister but I like it. Love the photo, BTW.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Ooh, I like the idea of a coloured front door light!

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  4. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    And an actual shiver ran down my spine, no kidding!! 😱

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Imagine how we feel, having to live with him!

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  5. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Great picture once again. Cat Daddy sounds like a little rascal. Rather than think about a brothel, he could think about a sunset in Australia or in Tanzania and change the country every now and then. 🙂 .

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Yes, that would’ve been much more sophisticated!

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  6. Audrey Driscoll avatar

    You’re right–he looks good in red!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      The colour of the devil, so very appropriate!

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  7. Dr. CaSo avatar

    Huhuh, the picture is fabulous, a real little devil 😀 Rosie slept on me last night, purring the entire time, so I can’t complain about her not being affectionate, but maybe I should still buy a red lamp like that…

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Did she really? Aww, that’s such progress compared to where she was when she first came to you! I miss your Rosie updates.

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  8. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    He looks both kittenish and demonic in this photo! Bravo! (I personally wouldn’t judge you if you purchased the red light with the sole purpose of enhancing your photo shoots with Louis.)

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He IS both kittenish and demonic!

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  9. cat9984 avatar

    It is a rather striking photograph.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      His Noir colouring has worked in his favour here!

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  10. […] those glorious days when Catorze would come to bed with me, and we would lie together in the light of my red lamp? Ah, what lovely memories. And, sadly, that’s all they are, because he doesn’t do it […]

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