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Long answer: He does like being scratched behind the ears, but finding someone he's comfortable with letting get that close is challenging. He's affection starved enough that something like getting his ears scratched is unexpectedly intimate. There's also a fine line between it feeling patronizing that someone feels like they can just 'pet the dog'. While Kaiser is more comfortable with being a dog and his dog mannerisms, there's kind of a lot to wrestle with mentally over that. Dogs are 'supposed' to be friendly and obedient and such, but he's also his own human, and being both is like some secret third thing (and there's a fourth thing if you also count the monster form).

Sarra-Skee-nia, Skee-Skee in a Sarracenia trap