Tag: adoption
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Louis Catorze’s three main bêtes noires are as follows: 1. The guitar. 2. The vacuum cleaner (although he’s more offended than scared by this, and he screams at whoever is using it to shut up). 3. The pestle and mortar (again, insulting rather than frightening). The little sod was subjected to the third one at…
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These few days post-Hallowe’en have been pretty awful. I have been ill with a monstrous cold (not Covid but easily as bad), and Le Château seems bare and bereft with the decorations all put away for another year. Luckily there are cats to cheer us up. Not my cat, obviously. Mine is highly affronted that…
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Today is National Black Cat Day (U.K.). Of all the cat colours, black ones are the least likely to be adopted, apparently for the following reasons: 1. Black is regarded as a boring colour compared to tabbies, gingers and suchlike. 2. Black cats are apparently less photogenic than other cats. 3. People associate them with…
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Last weekend, as Cat Daddy arrived home, a lady in the street stopped and said, “Excuse me: is this the home of Louis Catorze?” You just couldn’t make this up, could you, Mesdames et Messieurs? When Cat Daddy shamefacedly confirmed that she had the correct house, she introduced herself: “I’m Ginger Impinger’s mum.” Actually, “Ginger…
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Today is a rather bittersweet day. I look forward to 1st October all year as it signifies the start of the Halloween countdown and the Season of the Black Cat, but this year it also marks the fact that we have now had Louis Catorze for longer than we ever had his big brother, Luther.…
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Louis Catorze has been with us for exactly a year! (The picture above was taken the day after he arrived – I love it because it shows his gorgeous squashed boxer’s nose.) We’d only lost Luther a month beforehand and it seemed very soon to be getting another cat, but being catless was making us…
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