What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.

“What’s the matter with your cat?” 

WE DON’T KNOW. NOBODY KNOWS. IF WE KNEW, WE WOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 

Louis Catorze’s screaming is getting worse. I know that I complain about it all the time (although still nowhere near as much as Cat Daddy does), but it never used to be like this: 

Cat Daddy: “It’s actually starting to depress me.”

Now it’s like this all the time, and I wondered if something could be genuinely wrong with Catorze.

Cat Daddy: “Mentally wrong, maybe. He’s gone ****ing demented.”

Not long after this video was filmed, a (male) friend visited us. As you know, Catorze loves boys, so this did nothing to calm the situation. In fact, it made things worse. 

The little sod circled our friend, then jumped up onto the arm of the sofa so that he could nuzzle his upper body, all the while screaming himself witless. It probably would have gone on all night had Cat Daddy’s phone not rung in the middle of it all. 

Cat Daddy, picking up his phone and turning to our friend: “Oh, it’s YOU calling me! You must have pocket-dialled me.”

Our friend: “No, my phone’s not even in my pocket. I put it down over there.”

It turned out that, in his haste to snuggle our friend, Catorze had stepped on the phone, which was resting on the arm of the sofa, and called Cat Daddy. It’s quite fortunate that it was him, because anyone else would have answered the call to be greeted by a cacophony of over-excited Catorzian screaming and purring. Trust me, nobody wants or deserves that. 

Anyway, after having a cup of tea and trying to hold some sort conversation over the screaming, Cat Daddy and our friend went out, leaving Catorze stuck with the third favourite human of the day. And then he shut up.

Seriously, what can we do? Is this our life now?

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20 responses to “Hurler c’est agir ”

  1. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Poor Louis, left alone with you 😺. Fortunately, he shut up. Let imagine you were asked endlessly « It is unfair, why didn’t Cat Daddy and that nice man take me with them? Do you know why? It is so unfair….»

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Oh God, imagine if they’d taken him! Catorze, in the pub, with all those drunk men!

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      1. mmechapeau avatar
        mmechapeau

        Louis would have enjoyed it. A pub is noisy enough for Louis’s screamings going unnoticed.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          Yes, he just would’ve blended into the background!

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        2. mmechapeau avatar
          mmechapeau

          Anyway, I’m not really sure Cat Daddy would have enjoyed it 😺 .

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  2. Vidya Heble avatar
    Vidya Heble

    This screaming is nothing. I now live with two cats, both of which scream, each in a different way. The elder, Grau, starts with a loud wail which escalates into anguished howling. She started doing this when my other girl passed away (cancer). The two were adopted separately but had bonded. And she howls even when I’m right there in the room, too.

    When Grau became the only cat, I thought of adopting another to give her company, hoping it would stop her wails. He… turned out to be a yowler. Fortunately his yowling has subsided into a softer sort of wailing, interspersed with a “Ma” or a silent sigh in lieu of a miaow. Grau too doesn’t vocalise much now, so it may have helped.

    Unfortunately I have been too traumatised to record any of this.

    Some human mothers do have ’em.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Oh my God, yours are WORSE? I need to hear this!

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      1. Vidya Heble avatar
        Vidya Heble

        I shall endeavour; though, annoyingly, the younger (new) cat, Jimmy, stops whatever he’s doing – wailing, chattering, shredding a paper ball – when I point the camera at him.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          Of course! I wouldn’t expect anything else! Le Roi also reserves his worst behaviour for when he’s off-camera.

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  3. Kate Crimmins avatar

    My cats howl when they want food, or scratches, or attention, or just to be annoying.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Do they sound like this? All the time?

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          Please film it!

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  4. Dr. CaSo avatar

    This is so cute, I would take him and cuddle him forever, giving him an “attaque de bisous” as I call it, to make sure he knows he’s loved!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      It isn’t cute when you hear it as much as we do!

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  5. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    Maybe Catorze is losing his hearing. Like humans who talk louder when they begin to go deaf, cats will do this too. Of course with cats it is hard to determine whether they are deaf, or just ignoring you, even if you drop a saucepan on the floor behind them.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      We’ve wondered that, too, but then he can still hear Cat Daddy opening the attic door from two floors down and is straight there when he hears the sound.

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  6. cat9984 avatar

    I’ve never had a cat that yowled or screamed. Kommando used to talk a lot (the Siamese in her, I think), but the rest are very quiet

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Oh my, a Siamese cat scream is like nothing on earth!

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