Oh poor Muskwa! That sounds horrible. I've had ear infections and they are not funny!

When I took the cats for their annual boosters a couple of years ago we got a newly qualified vet who was standing in for our vet's holidays. He was absolutely wonderful with the cats, but slightly concerned about Daisy's temperature because the thermometer was recording it as very low. After trying to get a reading with about 3 different thermometers, he eventually decided that it was just some kind of anomally and the readings could not possibly be right "because, frankly, she'd be a stiff"!