Author: iamthesunking
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What’s the most annoying trope in books or films? It’s only annoying because people don’t heed the warning: if an animal is unduly agitated by someone or something, it’s bad news. Most likely, that person or thing is haunted. RUN. Unless, of course, it’s the animal itself who is haunted. And, if you allowed them…
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What’s the bravest thing you ever did when no one was watching? Erm … gripped a writhing hell-beast of a cat between my knees and shoved sharp metal up their nose? Here’s a throwback from the summer of 2017: Louis Catorze started sneezing and snorting late on Friday evening, and this went on at regular…
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What’s something you do completely differently from how you were raised? When I was growing up, we loved our cats. That goes without saying. But we didn’t pamper them to the same degree that we do now. This is partly due to having fewer resources at the time, but also different attitudes; cats were simply…
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Louis Catorze went to vet visit last week, for a blood test following the increase in his Methimazole dose. I’d originally booked him in for mid-September; however, since he was starting to itch, I decided to bring forward the blood test and give him his steroid injection at the same time. I gave Catorze the…
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This is probably an obvious, entry-level part of cat care (or sanity preservation), but we have started leaving food out for Louis Catorze overnight, in the hope that it will make him less of a pest in the early hours. And, so far, it seems to be working, which is great news because he’d just…
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When you think your cat has hung up their hunting boots for good, there’s no really good time for them to prove you wrong. However, the evening AFTER the bin men have been, whilst you’re cosy on the sofa watching the football, is probably the worst time of all. It was Cat Daddy who noticed…
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Remember when we naively hoped that Louis Catorze and Foxy Loxy could live harmoniously together? Yeah, well, it turns out that they can’t. Cat Daddy witnessed An Incident the other night – or, rather, two mini-incidents one after the other, but we’ll call it a single incident so that it doesn’t sound as bad. Cat…
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Louis Catorze is continuing to annoy the merde out of Cat Daddy. One night, when they were up late for Boys’ Club, I was awoken by the sound of Catorze being told off, with an exasperated Cat Daddy shouting, “You’re so SELFISH!” The next morning I was greeted by three piles of cat puke downstairs,…
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Our relationship with Ocado has been, erm, complicated at times. And it’s all Louis Catorze’s fault. Luckily, now that he’s a bit older, he seems to be growing out of his habit of harassing drivers when they arrive, screaming at them and circling their feet to trip them up. However, reduced energy certainly doesn’t mean…
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Remember when I had to lock myself in a room with Louis Catorze because he couldn’t behave during Zoom calls? Well, now, I am locking myself in a room with him because he can’t behave generally. It beggars belief that this is what has become of me. When the beautician visited recently, naturellement Catorze barged…
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Louis Catorze has started requesting to go out at The Front every evening. He often does this when it’s warm outside and, although I wasn’t keen at first in case he tried to cross the road and consort with marauding youths in the park, so far he seems able to have been sensible and stay…
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If you could erase one event from history, what would it be? This one from 2017: A couple of days ago, Oscar the dog’s mamma told me that she had seen a large brown rat in their garden. Ever-hopeful, I asked her if she were sure that it wasn’t a very big mouse, or an…
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What’s a conspiracy theory you actually find believable? The Uprising is nigh. Black cats are masterminding it, with the aid of their ginger footsoldiers. But every single cat on the planet – yes, even yours – is either an active conspirator or, at the very least, a sympathiser. For more Catorzian capers, please visit http://louiscatorze.com
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Another week, another heatwave. This one was the fourth this year (or maybe the fifth, I can’t remember) and, once again, the hottest place in the UK on the hottest day of the week was Kew Gardens, 0.6 miles from us, at 38.1°C. On Friday we received a government emergency alert on our phones, the…
