Are You Awake?

Since I now have a cat and a dog, in the interest of fairness, I have to tell my share of cat stories. Ellie the Belly is a beautiful black cat that is 10 years old. She lives for dinnertime. This morning she woke me up at 2 AM wanting to be fed. She first tried patting me on the face with her paws. I can hear her best Sylvester the cat voice saying, "Hey Dan! Are you awake?"I threatened to pull all of the hair out of her tail. Ellie decided that she would try to make amends by washing my hair with her sandpaper-like tongue. Since I still have most of my hair, I thought it would be in my best interests to go ahead and get up and feed her. As it turns out, it was a small price to pay.