I HAVE LEARNED. I have finally found her Tortitude.

Like you can pet her paws, give her belly rubs for days. You can touch her tail, scratch her nose. Everything is fair game

So while I've heard Tortitude or sometimes Tortisass I genuinely didn't really get it?

Like She seems fine. With Everything. Maybe she's weird

NOPE

I HAVE FOUND THE KRYPTONITE.

I HAVE DISCOVERED the sass

Opening her jaw and it's ALL Tortitude

Since she relapsed a bit, we have to give her a daily steroid and an antihistamine once every 3 days and it has to be a TEAM EFFORT because she is so sassy it's ridiculous

Burrito her in a towel and she'll shake her head, try to bite, and gets very very angy sassy yikes

my tortie is very similar, she even tolerates nail trimming with minimal fuss - she just tries to pull her feet away, but doesn't hiss or bite or anything

but the sass comes out around the other cat. she has opinions about him and where he is and she is loud about them.

YEAH I think it's just There's a trigger somewhere and when you find it you know it

I completely get it now. Chill as fuck cats, until you hit the trigger, whatever it is.

My dad has been assisting with the case of Catte Jaws and she bit him pretty hard this last attempt so he's gonna do it with gloves tomorrow

I'm just in charge of burrito'ing. My hands are honestly too small to hold the back of her head to keep her still and get her jaw at the same time while she's so squirmy and mad

But my goodness The Sass.