Caturday–“La Toilette” Edition (084/366)

“Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming.”

~James Gorman

TIME:  11:23 AM
PLACE:  Basement
SUBJECT:  Tessa and her tongue

We’ve been doing some major remodeling of the upstairs bathroom which has left the walls exposed down to the studs.  Ms. Tessa has been taking advantage of the open access to the crawlspace.  She’s been disappearing and then showing up a couple of hours later with filthy, sooty, dirty paws.  It takes a lot of grooming to get her fur back to its original white.

Getting Beautiful Stresses Me Out (364/365)

“A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.”

James Gorman

TIME:  8:00 PM
PLACE:  Kitchen
SUBJECT:  Oreo

Poor doggie.  We took her to Petsmart to be groomed this afternoon.  She was stinky and her nails were long and “clicked, clicked, clicked, clicked” much too annoyingly on the laminate floor for my taste.  When we dropped her off, she had a look of panic on her face, as if we were leaving her forever.  When we returned to pick her up, she about pulled the groomer’s arm out of their socket as they were walking her to us at the desk.  We bought her a new pink collar to replace her old faded one while she was getting all pretty.  Now she smells sooo much better – and she isn’t as “clicky” either.