Heidi's Fascinations

So. My poor kitty, Carrie, is allergic to flea bites. My new cottage had fleas, evidently, and although I have flea-bombed two times and monthly put Frontline on her, she is still very itchy. So I figure that the fleas are gone (hopefully/mostly) but she's just itched her way to further itchiness. So I thought if I could give her some oily food maybe her skin would be less itchy (although the air is not dry right now). So tonight I opened a can of tuna (she won't eat salmon) and put some liquid over her food and some tuna chunks in with it. I put it down and she sniffed and immediately recoiled like it was going to bite her. I could just hear her go "Ewwww!"

But sometimes she'll even do this to milk, and if I leave it there, she'll eventually figure out that she likes it, so I left this there, too. While I was eating dinner I saw her go over to her food dish and heard licking sounds. So I went to the kitchen where I could keep an eye on her without being obvious (she doesn't like to be stared at!). She was standing about 8" away from the bowl and sticking her paw very gingerly into the bowl and licking her paw. When she put her paw in the bowl you could see she was recoiling at the same time, like she was touching dirty diapers. She would almost touch the food with the paw but quickly pull it up, try to touch it again, but pull it up, then she'd just barely touch it and then lick her paw. It was so hard not to bust up laughing, but she gets really pissed and will stalk off if she thinks you are laughing at her. You laugh, but it's true. She knows!

She finally had enough tiny licks and walked off. I threw it out and gave her the regular-ole crunchies. Yum!


Princess Carrie


Queen Carrie


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