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One of Louis Catorze’s favourite things to do is step on the TV remote and either change channels or switch the TV to the home screen. 

He has probably done this about 784 times in the time that we’ve known him, so it’s certainly nothing unusual. If we are doing something he doesn’t like, or watching something that we really DO like, we know that he will pounce. It’s as predictable as day following night (although this probably means that we ought to have found a way of preventing it by now). 

However, Cat Daddy has noticed that, whenever Catorze does it and takes us back to the home screen, we are not able to replicate this ourselves without multiple clicks of the remote. Catorze seems to be able to do it with just one step. Whatever it is that he does, it would actually be quite handy for us to know it so that we can do the same, the next time we need to return to the home screen quickly. But, of course, the bastard cat isn’t saying. 

Cat Daddy: “I’m telling you, it’s some psycho thing. He does it with his MIND.”

Right. I don’t suppose we can compete with that even under normal circumstances, but in October we are especially powerless. 

An old picture from 2024, of our TV. Just a TV. Nothing more.

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25 responses to “Avec une télécommande, on vit heureux ”

  1. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    I had a dear plump tuxie who – TWICE – managed with one paw on the keyboard to somehow rotate my computer screen from vertical layout to horizontal, with the attendant cropping off of the content. When I called the computer shop it took the tech awhile to help, because he first had to replicate it on his own computer. He finally gave me directions, which – unbelievably- I remembered enough of to right it myself when she did it again a few weeks later. That evidently took all the fun out of it for her, and she nevewr did it again.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Of course! If you know how to fix it, that’s no fun!

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  2. M - avatar

    Just like Ramses, Louis is Magick.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He is! This is both wonderful and scary.

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  3. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Take heart, you aren’t the only ones. A former cat of ours liked lying on my laptop keyboard and once in a bleue moon, she managed to open windows I had never seen before. In her case, it was the heat from the computer that attacted her 😺 .

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      That’s so funny! 🤣🤣🤣

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      1. mmechapeau avatar
        mmechapeau

        When it happened, I didn’t think so 😂.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          It’s funny for everyone else!

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          1. mmechapeau avatar
            mmechapeau

            Actually, I was a bit afraid of her sending emails, but fortunately, it never happened 😺.

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            1. iamthesunking avatar

              Can you IMAGINE?

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  4. Herman avatar
    Herman

    These are just small things to show you cats will soon take over the world and control our minds.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Indeed! I’ve been telling you this for ages!

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  5. Kate Crimmins avatar

    Gus does that to my computer. With a single paw he can bring up the Chewy screen or delete an entire post. Sometimes it takes me a half hour to figure out how to undo it.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      What is the Chewy screen?

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      1. Kate Crimmins avatar

        Chewy is the company I buy my cat food and supplies from. They sell treats too which would excite the cats.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          Oh my goodness! How on earth did he do that?

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          1. Kate Crimmins avatar

            It’s a mystery!

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  6. RasmaSandra avatar

    It is mind over matter, and Louis had powerful brain waves and it is kind of scary.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      It does indicate evidence of a brain, yes.

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  7. ibarynt avatar

    That is one way of telling you’ll where your attention should be 😁. I think he’s learned to use the remote better than you do.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He has! The little sod!

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  8. Editor avatar

    Is that like when the cat manages to flip the laptop screen and you have no idea how?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Are you speaking from experience here? 🤣🤣🤣

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      1. Editor avatar

        It is a possibility

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  9. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    Apollo also enjoys changing the station or sometimes turning off the TV entirely. Not sure if he is doing it on purpose, as there seems to be no particular pattern to his actions.

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