Last week I went for an acupuncture session, to help me recover from the after-effects of my surgeries. Through complete coincidence, it turns out that the acupuncturist lives in our street. This kind of thing happens a lot in our town. 

After my treatment, the acupuncturist messaged me to remind me to keep warm afterwards. I replied, saying, “I have the best hot water bottle: a little black cat.”

Why am I so stupid? Louis Catorze has form for causing trouble in our street, so why would I say this to someone living in the same street? It’s certainly killed stone-dead any opportunity to be able to say, “It must have been some other black cat” in the future.

It’s too late to take it back, isn’t it? My best hope – in fact, my ONLY HOPE – is that Catorze just behaves from now on.

Here are a few of his past neighbourhood idiocies – or, rather, the past idiocies that we know about: 

Merde.

Saint Jésus.

Quel horreur

Yikes.

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21 responses to “On peut connaître la vertu d’un chat en observant ses défauts ”

  1. M - avatar

    Luv the blankie

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      It’s so him, isn’t it?

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  2. Kate Crimmins avatar

    He is one in a million!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      One what? 🤣🤣🤣

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      1. Kate Crimmins avatar

        And that is the question! 🙂

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  3. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    You bragged on your child prodigy. A guarantee that there will be no virtuoso performances.

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  4. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    Maybe, having painted the picture of a sweet, cuddly cat who likes nothing better than to warm his maman’s lap, the acupuncturist will just assume that the black cat in the street behaving in a most dastardly manner must be a different black cat…

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Ahh! Why didn’t I think of that? Yes, I will just claim that mine is the quiet indoors sort and the street hoodlum is nothing to do with me.

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  5. Lou Carreras avatar

    What no accu-claw? Our cats have all been masters of inserting one claw accurately, but under normal circumstances not to alleviate pain. Louis has not mastered this feline technique for controlling humans? Shocking! He just relies on psychological torture instead.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Oh no, he has recently started acu-clawing. Usually when he wants attention and the hapless human isn’t delivering.

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      1. Lou Carreras avatar

        They consider themselves the aggrieved party, however!

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  6. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Louis is not the only one who can behave oddly. A few weeks ago, an unknown cat started looking through our French window. Since then, every time we have opened the latter, the cat has entered the place and visited it. I do hope the acupuncturist helped you to feel better.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      A new, never-seen-before cat? Oh my! Tell me more! What does he look like?

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      1. mmechapeau avatar
        mmechapeau

        I have just sent you an email.

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  7. Dr. CaSo avatar

    I wish I lived on your street 😀 Louis and Rosie would run the neighbourhood with iron claws, it’d be fun!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      That would be hilarious!

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  8. Bismarck avatar

    But does Louis really stay on your lap when you need to stay warm?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      It’s more when HE needs to stay warm.

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  9. cat9984 avatar

    He is Lord of the Realm 🙂

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He is Shite of the Realm.

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