For some reason, Kiki, our Shibu Inu, thinks it’s a sin not to pay back every pat she gets with a lick. One or two licks are fine, but sometimes I want to breathe in her nice furry smell, and instead, I get my face plastered with dog breath.
Is she just giving me a kiss or are am I really that dirty?
Dressing in the morning can be really complicated when I decide to wear lotion on my legs. While I’m struggling to get a leg into my slacks, Kiki is licking off the burnt vanilla scented lotion. That can’t be good for her. I end up hopping around the rug, trying to get away from her, while trying hard not to fall on our cat, Lilly, who has decided that she, too, needs attention and has stationed herself in the middle of the action.
The up side of all this licking is that Kiki and Lilly have the cleanest ears around. Kiki will thoroughly clean Lilly’s ears until it’s obvious Lilly is concerned her brains are about to be sucked out of her tiny skull and she quickly scoots away. She will eventually reciprocate and Kiki seems to appreciate the attention. I’ve never seen animals with such clean ears.
The rest of the family will stay with the old fashioned method of using cotton swabs for cleaning ears.
There are certain types of cleanliness we can live without.
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