They take a lickin'

Ah-ha.  So for a CHANGE, I am not the one in trouble.  This time Squeaky and Einstein have worked together - and they both caused problems for one another.

You see, Squeaky and Einstein LOVE to chew on each other and lick one another's ears.  And Frodo  recently ended up with a "shake-the-head" problem - because one of his ears was pink.  He had the problem a week ago and my human had to clean his ear and put in some drops.  He was fine the next day- because she caught the problem early.  Well Tuesday morning my human had us up EXTRA early because she needed to be in the office at 7:30.  Which means that in order for us to get our walks and breakfast and in order for HER to eat breakfast, the alarm goes off at 4:45. And on those days, everything has to go like clockwork.  But the clock stopped when Squeaky came out of his crate and she took one look at him.  His ear was going sideways.  "OH NO" she exclaimed.  This literally happened over night - his ear was all red.  Must have been all the licking by Einstein the day before.  So she whisked him into the garage aka grooming torture parlor aka minor surgical ward and examined his sore ear.  She carefully cleaned it - and thankfully still had ears drops left to make it feel better.  Of course as SOON as he was back in the house, Einstein wanted to examine the ear too.  And make it feel "better".  At which point my human shouted "Leave his ears ALONE."  She had to keep the two of them separated when she went to take her shower, and as always, they were separated when she went to work.

When she got home from work, his ear looked MUCH better.  She cleaned it again and put in more drops.  But TRYING to keep the ear lickers apart is no easy task. They are obsessed with doing it.  My human is threatening them with cones.  You know the line - "it's all fun and games until somebody ends up in a cone."    To keep them occupied, we had several rounds of Find the Bunny the other night.  My human uses a "bunny" which now looks NOTHING like a bunny.  She basically picks any stuffed-type toy and calls it a bunny.  It's an alternative truth.   No wonder when we first go to look for it we have no idea what we are looking for.  But despite that - we all did well with the game, and it kept the licking down.  For at least an hour.

So anyway, I have two new nicknames for Squeaky and Einstein:  Timex 1 and Timex 2.  

Sorry but I couldn't resist.

Have a good one!