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  • I really miss cats. We haven’t been short of wildlife during our stay here, but the best part of my whole day is sitting on the sofa, drinking green tea with Louis Catorze on my lap. So it’s been very strange not being able to do that. We have been lucky enough to spend time…

  • Cat Daddy: “Oh my God. What’s happened to Louis’s fur?” Me, imagining the horror of a Code Brun situation: “Erm, why? What’s wrong with it?” Him: “It’s gone all weird.” Me: “???” Him: “Like tiger bread.” Me: “???” Him: “Come and look.” It turned out that the cause of Cat Daddy’s alarm was Louis Catorze’s…

  • 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…

  • Colder weather usually brings cuddling kitties, although they’re clearly just using us for our warmth and haven’t suddenly decided that they really like us. Louis Catorze, however, is still spending as much time outside as he did during the summer months, and his Short Man Syndrome has been getting him into trouble with foxes. This…

  • Nigel driving the Apple van came bearing all sorts of goodies on Tuesday night, including fresh prosciutto di Parma and jambon de Bayonne, seafood and a variety of soft and hard cheeses. (Yes, I know that cats are said to be lactose-intolerant, but the pills are so minuscule that we really wouldn’t need much cheese…

  • Louis Catorze has been doing so much better this week. On Monday morning he managed to escape outside without his Cône – despite the cat flap being both locked and physically barricaded and all windows being shut – and he hid in the cat flap tunnel for 15 minutes whilst a frantic, late-for-work Cat Daddy…

  • Cat Daddy and I have spent a disturbing amount of time monitoring Louis Catorze to try and understand his tail-chasing habit. And, yes, this has been just as dull as it sounds, with the exception of the unsettling moment when he actually HISSED at his own tail. The strange thing is that Catorze doesn’t appear…

  • 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.…