I was swabbing out Abelard's ears a while ago when Billy got up on the sofa
next to us to watch. As soon as Abelard was finished, Billy pushed his way
in and *asked* me to swab out his ears (which didn't need to be swabbed at
all) just for the *pleasure* of it.

But this was just the beginning of Billy's amazing breakthrough. After
"cleaning" the insides of his ears, I decided that since he was calm, it
might be a good time to attempt to snip his claws.

Now, normally when I try to clip Billy's claws, I can count on a major
battle that can make it take a full hour to clip all ten front claws. Not
this time; it was almost like Billy had been shot with a tranquilizer
gun.... he let me clip, clip, clip, clip, one after the other with NO
objections of any kind!

I feel like Billy and I both deserve some special reward today.