Never believe the labels

Poor Zeeba has had a rough week. It started with her not feeling so good. I'll spare you the details but don't worry, it is a common kitty ailment and is remedied by this gooey stuff she is supposed to eat twice a day. The label says it has been "formulated with high taste appeal. Place a small amount on your cat's paw to stimulate initial taste interest." Then supposedly after than she is going to lick it off my finger every time because it is just so darn tasty. Fat chance. Despite the fact that it looks like molasses, it apparently doesn't suit her tastes. The first time I put it on her paw, she sniffed it, then wiped it all over my couch and her head. So now we just put some on our fingers, pry open her mouth and rub it on her teeth. Lucky for us, she doesn't bite.

But of course, she was covered in the medicine so we had to give her a bath. But before we did that, we knew we had to clean out her ears and since it was going to make a mess too, we might as well do that first. The label for that said: Apply 10 drops to inside of ear. Massage base of ear for a few minutes then allow pet to shake it's head. Wipe excess solution from ear. Sounds easy but apparently that really means: Hold cat on your lap using arm and elbow to secure cat in head lock and prevent skin from being slashed by claws. Pry open cat's ears and squirt however much comes out in 0.5 seconds. Touch ear for one second before cat gets her head loose and shakes cleaning stuff everywhere. Wipe up excess from your face and all surfaces within 2 feet of cat.

After that, she was all ready for her bath. Except by now she was really mad and had taken to hiding behind the Christmas tree. So we chased her around for a couple minutes then took her over to the sink where the Botanicals Sweet Ginger Cat Shampoo was waiting for her so she could enjoy a relaxing and reinvigorating bath that would also condition and coat her fur with its special hairball prevention beads that would be released in the water. I'm not sure if her previous owners bathed her frequently or if she had just given up by now but she did pretty well with the bath. But when we turned off the water, I think she was ready to get out. What do you think?

I wrapped her up in a towel and took her over the couch. I let her go and thought she would run away as fast as she could but she decided to take her revenge subtly by staying on me until the water soaked through the towel and I smelled like a wet cat who had eaten sweet ginger for lunch. Then she needed to get herself looking pretty again so she spent 3 hours grooming herself which unfortunately contributes to the original problem so wish us luck on the next few days with the gooey medicine.