Last night as I was watching another Law & Order rerun on the Tivo, Gracie sat on my lap and was fastidiously grooming away. For the longest time, we’ve been trying to get her to take this lysine supplement paste that might help with her respiratory problems. 
But the hurdle has always been that she won’t eat it. We drop it in her food bowl, and she eats around it. She spits it out when we try to put it directly her in her mouth. The vet told me this wouldn’t be a problem. “It’s meat-flavored,” he told me. “Cats like it.”
Well, not this cat. But then it dawned on me as I watched her lick her leg over and over and over again: I walked over to her with paste, put a dab on my finger, and then smeared it right onto her leg. She first gave me a “WTF??” look, but then she promptly licked it up, nice and clean.
I’m a genius! (It’s too bad we can’t make her take pills this way!)
