We have a Code Bleu situation here. Well, not HERE, but in CR4, the manor of Boots, usurper stepbrother of Antoine, Louis Catorze’s frère-from-another-mère. 

Don’t mess with Boots.

Remember Boots and his penchant for losing his Chelsea collars? Well, he is now down to his last one, but we can’t buy him any more because the Chelsea Megastore is out of stock. They don’t even have an “Email me when back in stock” option. I suppose we could contact the club to ask but, let’s face it, nobody wants additional contact with Chelsea if they can possibly avoid it. 

Smart boy.
“Out of stock” AND “almost gone”? Surely it’s one or the other?

Now, we could, of course, just wait for the stock to replenish, but we have no way of knowing whether this might be days, weeks or months. In the meantime, the likelihood is that Boots will lose his solitary remaining Chelsea collar and end up collarless.

This absolutely cannot be, because the bell on his collar serves as a valuable alert to Antoine. Antoine really needs to know that his usurper stepbrother is at large, because Boots can be a bit mean to him. 

The obvious thing would be to put him in some sort of interim collar, but here are the issues that we face: 

  1. It absolutely must be a football collar. (Don’t ask why. It just does.)
  2. The featured football team ought to have nasty, thuggish fans; a jolly, community-based club just isn’t very Boots. 

The other problem, of course, is that many football clubs sell dog collars, but there are very few cat ones available. That said, Boots is such a meaty chonkosaurus that a collar for a small dog could work. 

After some searching, we discovered a limited collection of horrible-team cat collars.

*Not an awful club, but local to Boots.

**Covers all bases, being the common denominator between all horrible clubs.

Please vote for your favourite or for the funniest, whichever you feel is more appropriate.

No collar for Catorze on account of, erm, even newborn kitten-sized ones being too small.

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

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20 responses to “Clouer ses couleurs au mât”

  1. M - avatar

    Brandon kept pulling off Ramses collars (which looked a lot like the Chelsea) one). Somehow they are lost somewhere in this house. I finally got Ramses a black leather collar which probably is not the most practical for indoor/outdoor kitties because it’s not “breakaway”. BUT…Brandon cannot tear if off of him.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      That’s so funny! I wonder what made him do that?

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  2. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    You might get a lot of votes from the Former Colonies for “New York Yankees”.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Can you get New York Yankees collars?

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  3. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Good luck for this project. According to me, wathever collar you choose is likely to please that courteous cat named Boots.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Courteous? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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      1. mmechapeau avatar
        mmechapeau

        Is he called « usurper » because of a lack of courtesy ?

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          No, it’s because he was a stray who turned up and never left!

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        2. mmechapeau avatar
          mmechapeau

          We also had a stray who turned up and never left. And do you know what? She was a black cat.

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          1. iamthesunking avatar

            Imagine that! 🤣🤣🤣

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  4. Ellen Hawley avatar

    Apologies for getting serious on you, but no dog collars, please! They need to break away to let the cat get free if they’re stuck on something. I don’t want to think about the alternative.

    Also, they need to break away so the cats can get rid of them at will. If you search, I’m sure you’ll find a small tree or bush in the neighborhood where the cats gather by the dark of the moon to hang their collars and chant. It’s a longstanding and important ritual. Mess with it at your peril.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Haha, no, don’t worry, Boots’ mamma wouldn’t get a dog collar for him!

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  5. Kate Crimmins avatar

    I chose the last one because it sounded so…umm…holy…

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      It really isn’t! 🤣🤣🤣

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  6. Belle avatar
    Belle

    Etsy UK has 3 left: etsy.com/uk/listing/950785720/58-cat-kitty-collar-football-club

    Bonne chance! 😺

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Ooh! And they do a “large cat” size! Thank you! 🤣🤣🤣

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  7. Belle avatar
    Belle

    De rien 😸

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  8. cat9984 avatar

    Perhaps you could get one of each and let Boots decide. 🙂 (I actually voted for the local club.)

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      That’s a good idea!

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  9. […] The votes have been verified and counted, and I can now reveal that there is a tie for the choice of Boots’ new collar:  […]

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