Rocky woke up hungry, as usual. Thom was still sleeping, but Rocky knew how to take care of that. He marched into Thom’s room jumped up on the bed and began to paw at Thom’s nostrils. When that didn’t work he started to lick Thom’s face, particularly around Thom’s lips. “When that failed, he went to his last tactic to wake Thom up. He began biting Thom’s earlobes and pulling at them. “Rocky stop, stop,” said Thom in a sleepy voice. It was only 4:30 AM. Rocky continued to pull and bite at Thom’s earlobes. “Alright, alright, I’m getting up,” he finally said in defeat as he knew Rocky would not stop until he got up to feed him. Rocky merrily jumped off the bed and jauntily sped his way to the kitchen when Thom threw back the covers and got out of bed. “You’re too much,” he said aloud as he made his way to the kitchen. There was Rocky all giddy and meowing his hunger meow non-stop. It was at this point that Shadow came in to join the fun. “Meow, Meow, Meow,” said Shadow and Rocky in unison. “I’ve got to start training Rocky not to do this Thom thought. Now, he has Shadow meowing too, he said aloud to no one in particular. He fed the cats and went back to bed. I’m buying a squirt bottle later today, he thought…