Brucie loves her mother Zoe and love to lick Zoes face. Mostly Zoe tolerates the attention but Brucie can be a little obsesive. Brucie loves to lick the edges of books for hours making tiny zip-zip-zip noises as the pages slide off her rough little tounge and she does the same thing to Zoe. So Brucie is cleaning Zoes face and always ends up working on the inside of Zoes ear, rooting around inside with her nose like a dog digging up a bone. If you've had a cat lick a sensative part of your body you know it feels like a small belt sander. Eventualy Zoe (not the most zenlike of cats) has had enough. She'll growl, hiss, twitch, and if that doesn't work, it's thumpity-thump time with paws and claws.Brucie just closes her eyes and cowers like "but mama mama i luv you". Finally Zoe will get up and run cursing.
I guess what happened this time was that Zoe hooked the top of Brucies head. She got an abcess and by the time I noticed there was putrid pus leaking out of the top of her head. Off to the Vet! (plug for Planned Pethood Plus.)
Poor little thing. Brucie was the runt of the litter and she is really small. The smallest adult cat I have ever seen in 50 years of having cats. She is also pompous, pretentious, arrogant, demanding, and has a ego the size of Godzillas'. So she had to put up with weeks of us saying "oh poor brucie", and then bursting into uncontrollable hysterical laughter. Oh and she's still rooting in Zoes ears.
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