Received a sharpish wake-up notice this morning.
At about 6 AM, I was pulled out of a dream at Papi’s request. He needed to go back out. Papi, aka the ginger blade, likes to come in and nibble some kibble, and then go back out to see if anything has changed outside.
Letting him out, I shrugged off the dream to think about it later and nestled back under the covers. At that point, I felt and heard Tucker get off the bed. A minute later, I heard him crunching kibble.
Silence came.
Litter box scratching followed.
That’s when I came fully awake as Tucker did some business and launched a stench that exfoliated my skin.
Had to immediately empty that. The good news, I told myself, is that last year’s COVID bout didn’t seem to affect my sense of smell.
Good to find those silver linings, even if they’re in a litter box.
Michael Seidel, writer 
A nice story! 😉 Best wishes, Michael
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So good to hear from you! Thank you, and best wishes to you, my friend.
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Hello Michael. What is it about cats internal systems that they can produce such a horrifying dastardly smell with each bowel movement. My large cat farts, something I did not know cats would or could do. But he loves to lay on my desk in front of the keyboard and go to sleep, and once he does he farts such a soul rendering stench I am afraid it will melt the monitors behind him. Hugs. Scottie
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A farting cat, good lord! Hope he’s not like Tucker, who sleeps by my head.
I’ve wondered the same about the stink. And Tucker makes this big production of covering by scratching around his litter box, but he never covers anything! You know it’ll be really bad when he leaps from the litter box and hauls ass down the hallway. Like, he’s saying, “Wow, that is bad, I’m getting out of here!” Hugs
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