Here’s Travis, who came back from the vet hospital last week after pulling out his stomach tube. Our vets had decided the best course was to leave the tube out and let the hole in his side seal up. He loves not having that hardware in, and we can just tell he feels less constrained. (I reckon I would, too.) I got these photos of Travis this weekend, when he was back to his zippy self. Now, in many of his photos he appears like he does here, as if he has no ears. He adopts this pinched look whenever I say, "Traaaavissss, sit and … stay!" That’s about the only time I can get his photo, because otherwise he’s in constant motion. But something about being told to sit and stay makes him give me this disappearing-ear look, as if to say, "Okay, I’ll do it, but I’m not happy about it."
Then there’s his leering look, which I captured a few seconds after the shot above. I think Travis thought he was about to be released from his sit-and-stay, but why that would translate into a leer is something known only to him. Or maybe the leering is inadvertent, caused by the fused jaw and the pointy head. Who knows? But at least you can see he really does have a set of ears, even if they don’t look like they’re attached normally. Notice he’s managing to point them backwards … how does he do that?
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