Mornings in our house can get interesting. Nancy gets up before I do, and
she usually has a couple cats helping her get ready for work. I get about
when Nancy's leaving for work. I usually get a visitor while I shower
(Ranger jumps up to the top of the shower door), then anywhere from one to
four cats help me dry off and brush my teeth. Amelia, Tabitha, Harri, and
Ranger all like to ride on my shoulders after I'm dry so there's usually a
competition to see who gets into place for shouldering first.

Yesterday morning Tabitha was the only cat waiting for shouldering, so no
contest. I dried off, put on my robe, and allowed Tabitha to hop up. As
soon as she settled on my shoulders Harri came running into the bathroom.
Not ambling in like usual, but actually running. When she arrived she
started talking to me - a lot. She usually gives me a couple of
"meep-meep"s when she walks in, but not yesterday morning. She treated me
to a long discourse in kitty squeaks. And they were delivered with an
urgent tone - you know those kitty meows that you can tell are really
important, like "Hurry, Pa, Timmy just fell in the well!" sorts of meows?
That's the kind of squeaks I was getting from Harri. She then ran out of
the room and went thumping down the stairs.

After making sure that Tabitha was well settled on my shoulders, I left
the bathroom and headed for the stair. I got down to the bottom of the
stairs and saw Harri sitting in the door to the kitchen. I checked out
everything I could think of to check - Nancy had gone to work and didn't
lock herself out, nothing was on fire, nobody was trapped in the basement.
Everything looked fine to me. I then walked into the kitchen.

Harri was sitting right in front of the kibble feeder. The empty kibble
feeder. Sitting in front of it and staring at me. You know that look cats
can give you? That "How could you? Don't you love us anymore?" look?
That's the look I was getting from Harri. I had the nerve to allow the
kibble feeder to become empty, and I hadn't yet opened up a can of gooshy
food for the kitties.

We'll ignore for now the fact that Amelia is very round, and that Harri is
pretty round herself . My kitties were demanding food, so I fed them then
returned upstairs to finish brushing my teeth.

When I left the house 20 minutes or so later all was forgiven.