Last week Walter was in the living room with our dog Jody when we heard Walter cry out.

He was petting Jody while she was furiously scratching at an itch around her ear when suddenly a big clump of hair flew off of Jody’s head and onto the ground.

Walt came into the kitchen with this little clump of hair, followed proudly by Jody, who didn’t know why we were making a fuss, but apparently perceiving that the fuss was about her.

Jennifer and I looked at her ears, and sure enough, there was a little bald patch at the corner where her ear and top of her head connect, and there was a tiny cut that was bleeding.