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You know how I know Krista loves me?
So she's got something going on in her left ear. That was the middle ear infection with the ruptured eardrum and the Horners Syndrome (long since cleared up!) from the start of this thread. One of the vets described it as "a whole lot of angry going on." I have come to believe, through trial and error (mostly error) and observation that at least a portion of it is food allergy mediated. Next time she goes in for a dental (soon, hopefully I can get one of my own in first), I'll have them re-look at that ear.
But I basically can't touch that ear anymore. She tells me so. She likes her right ear stroked from base to tip. But if I approach her left ear to do the same, she swivels that ear shut. Closed for business! Noted. I usually remember and respect that.
Now here's how I know she loves me.
You know how you greet dogs with a hand to sniff? I greet her with a knuckle, crooked like the nose of another cat so she can have a nose-to-knuckle nose greeting. This invariably turns into a knuckle nose to cheek, to eyebrow, to her ear greeting. She knows which ear bothers her and she still greets me with that motion nearly every time. She must be left-handed. And it never fails to set off a little head shake.
She loves me more than that ear bothers her!
So she's got something going on in her left ear. That was the middle ear infection with the ruptured eardrum and the Horners Syndrome (long since cleared up!) from the start of this thread. One of the vets described it as "a whole lot of angry going on." I have come to believe, through trial and error (mostly error) and observation that at least a portion of it is food allergy mediated. Next time she goes in for a dental (soon, hopefully I can get one of my own in first), I'll have them re-look at that ear.
But I basically can't touch that ear anymore. She tells me so. She likes her right ear stroked from base to tip. But if I approach her left ear to do the same, she swivels that ear shut. Closed for business! Noted. I usually remember and respect that.
Now here's how I know she loves me.
You know how you greet dogs with a hand to sniff? I greet her with a knuckle, crooked like the nose of another cat so she can have a nose-to-knuckle nose greeting. This invariably turns into a knuckle nose to cheek, to eyebrow, to her ear greeting. She knows which ear bothers her and she still greets me with that motion nearly every time. She must be left-handed. And it never fails to set off a little head shake.
She loves me more than that ear bothers her!