I had an unusual photo session! My man thought a blog post about flehmen’s response would be fun! For those who don’t know, the flehmen’s answer is the stench of our cats’ faces with their mouths slightly open. Why we do this, and other facts about it, are quite interesting!
But one thing he needed was a picture of me actually doing it! That means he has to find something to give me that face. It turned out to be more difficult than he thought.
With other ideas, he took off his boots and presented his feet to me. He’s been wearing his socks all day, so he hopes to do that.
No flehmen face to me. Instead he got it.
He then took wads of tissue paper and paper towels and tried to dab them on stinky things, including my litter box. That was closer, but it still didn’t reveal the full face with the mouth open.
Finally in a desperation, he pulled out a baggie containing an old toy and a bunch of valerian! In case you didn’t know, valerian smells like the worse smelly socks you can imagine. And the smell sticks to everything it touches. So he carefully opened this bag, presented it to me…and well, you can see my response. Not a flehmen.
So we failed at flehmening, at least for this photo session.
Here are other photographic tests I’ve had:
