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Pets are a normal thing to have for some families. You could have a dog, a cat, a bird, a lizard or snake, a fish, you name it. They’ll lay with you, play with you, sleep with you, walk with you and even eat with you. They become a part of your family, and everyone in a family makes mistakes. However, this type of mistake is a little more disgusting then most.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 I went to work right after I came home from school. Working for fast food isn’t exactly the highlight of my life however I get paid and I work with amazing people. After a long day of school and work all I wanted to do was go home and sleep. I made my way home, down to my room and before I could even change my clothes, I smelt something. Then, BAM! My cat runs out of my bedroom door. It’s a little strange, but then I started putting the pieces together. I had an odd smell in my room and a cat that bolted so fast I could barely see her.

I started searching my room for and type of bodily function that just so happened to be hiding. I found nothing. “Maybe,” I thought to myself, “Maybe I’m just going crazy and there really isn’t anything wrong in my room.” So I sat on my bed, I pulled open my covers and there it was. Four piles of cat poop pressed into my comforter. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I stripped my bed all the way to the mattress cover afraid that it might have been sitting there so long that it sunk through all of the layers. I carefully placed my foul bed linens in a room next to the laundry so nothing could get into it on accident (like another cat maybe). I walk upstairs a little ticked because I had no idea what I was supposed to do. I find my way to my mom’s bedroom to tell her of this stinky news.

“Jessica, you’re just going to have to sleep on the couch until we fix this.”

The couch. That’s all I could think about. It’s the one place that is not only uncomfortable but out in the open. Forget about having a good night’s sleep, you’ll have cats crawling up and down your body, across your face and meowing in your ears.

And that is exactly what happened. I woke up three to five times a night to find a cat purring in my ear, or sleeping on my head. And every time I’d push them off they would just come back again and again and again and again.