Fur

Once Miss Kit became unwell, she stopped being able to manage grooming her back, because she lost flexibility. I've been combing her top side and tail for months. But it's only in the last few days I realised that she has pretty well given up on grooming altogether - that the soft fur on her flanks, where the underlying skin is also soft and sensitive, was going into little lumps from neglect. I bought a new brush from the pet shop, and put it to use. There were offers to bite, tantrums, outbreaks of lying flat on my lap purring blissfully, more offers to bite and so forth. But now, after several sessions and the production of a hatful of orange fluff, Miss Kit's beautiful silky fur is beautiful, flat, and silky all over, and we have both conceded that it is now my business.