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L’équilibre travail-vie personnelle (Partie 2)

What jobs have you had?

Louis Catorze would never knowingly work for a living. However, over the years, he has held the following posts at Le Château: 

  1. Alarm clock 
  2. Hot water bottle 
  3. Inclement weather broadcaster
  4. General town crier  
  5. Pest exterminator (Cat Daddy: “WHAT? He’s the worst pest of them all!”)

Catorze continues to perform roles 1 to 4 on a regular basis. However, the fate of role 5 is in question as he hasn’t caught anything for some time. 

Both the rescue and Catorze’s foster mamma sold him to us as a non-hunter, so it was something of a surprise when he produced such horrors as this. Yet, so far this year, Catorze has caught a total of 0 (zero) birds and 0 (zero) rodents. 

Has the little sod permanently hung up his hunting boots? Or is broadcasting the diminishing body count the quickest and most certain way of resuming it?  

Nah, nothing to worry about here. Ahem.

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36 responses to “L’équilibre travail-vie personnelle (Partie 2)”

  1. Kate Crimmins avatar
    Kate Crimmins

    My cat Morgan has hung up her hunting tools. She was a fearless rodent catcher but she hasn’t caught anything in maybe 2 years. She’s around 13 and still can be frisky. Just not interested in the chase. Maybe there aren’t any rodents worthy of Louis hanging around.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I think Sa Maj has also grown too old for the chase!

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      1. Kate Crimmins avatar
        Kate Crimmins

        It happens to the best of us!

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  2. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    Wasn’t there an episode within the last year where he brought n a prey item and released it in the house ??

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      We suspected that he had, but we never found it. Our only evidence was him prowling and sniffing suspiciously.

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  3. Lou Carreras avatar
    Lou Carreras

    He’s waiting for you to relax, then he’ll spring a line up of songbirds, mice and voles.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Noooooo.

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  4. M - avatar
    M –

    What’s the drink? It looks yummy.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      It’s a meowgarita! 🍸

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  5. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Poor Louis. Has he stopped ambushing rodents, birds, butterflies, spiders or does he fail to catch any of them?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I don’t know! 🤣🤣🤣 I hope he still makes an effort with the spiders, though.

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  6. Herman avatar
    Herman

    That’s the way to enjoy life… keep those meowgarita’s coming!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Oh, he’s enjoying life all right! How are things with your furry overlord? Is the young upstart asserting his authority?

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      1. Herman avatar
        Herman

        It remains a tough battle for me to maintain the upper hand… 😎

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Je répète: IF ONLY SOMEBODY HAD WARNED YOU.

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  7. RasmaSandra avatar
    RasmaSandra

    Looks like Louis had had a long day and is ready to enjoy a Martini.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      No alcohol for him! You’ve seen him sober. Do you want to see him drunk?

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      1. RasmaSandra avatar
        RasmaSandra

        Well. maybe a wee bit of catnip now and then might be fun for Louis.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          Not so much fun for us, though.

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  8. sevencatsandcounting avatar
    sevencatsandcounting

    This is one of those photos that really shows Louis’ small stature. Either that or this is a swimming pool of a Meowgarita.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      I need to start photographing him with things for scale, don’t I?

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      1. mmechapeau avatar
        mmechapeau

        I’m unable to use the option « like » but I think it’s a good idea 😺.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          You can’t “Like”? How strange, I wonder why?

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          1. mmechapeau avatar
            mmechapeau

            Who knows? A clue might be because I have no website.

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            1. iamthesunking avatar
              iamthesunking

              Have you been able to Like in the past?

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            2. mmechapeau avatar
              mmechapeau

              Once in a blue moon, but never here.

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  9. Charles Huss avatar
    Charles Huss

    Chris was a master lizard hunter (among other things) in his youth, but as he got older, the desire to chase things diminished.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Did he actually kill them? Or just fling them around a bit?

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  10. cat9984 avatar
    cat9984

    He looks annoyed that you told everyone his secret.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Nah, that’s just his normal face. 🤣🤣🤣

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  11. Charles Huss avatar
    Charles Huss

    Chris would catch lizards and play with them. They would eventually die unless I intervened.

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  12. Penny Cooper avatar
    Penny Cooper

    It could be that hr has caught them all and rid the neighbourhood of unwanted ground dwellers and so no longer finds the birdies os annoying?? (you may notice I’m on catchup again, like my louisPlayer, too much nastiness from 3 of my neighbours has been holding me back again)

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    1. iamthesunking avatar
      iamthesunking

      Oh no, not the shitty neighbours again!

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      1. Penny Cooper avatar
        Penny Cooper

        I’m. In group therapy and trying so hard to not let them affect my life when I’m supposed to be focusing on copimg with life’s challenges to get the most out of it but because this is raw and now it’s messing with it, I’ve even thought of asking to stop the therapy sessions and restart on the next course. They are actually doing similar to our scheme manager, just pushing their luck and she’s really good and fair to all afraid we’ll lose her because who needs to come to work and suffer fools?

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        1. iamthesunking avatar
          iamthesunking

          What is a scheme manager?

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          1. Penny Cooper avatar
            Penny Cooper

            The manager of our residents and 33 flats and all communal areas and no I do not live in a home as the locals call it!! Have been quiet again because the latest is I had threatening behaviour from a male resident who was being goaded on by Tommy who started the trouble against me a couple of weeks ago and when I complained to the manager she staryed saying ‘Penny you can’t be right all the time…’ like what can she mean, he invaded my space and wagged his finger in my face saying ‘you’re just a fucking moany bitch’ oh, so I was in the right last time it happened so it’s their turn to be in the right this time???

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