Late one night, I was reading in bed. My husband was fast asleep, and our cat was sleeping on my legs. At one point, my husband rolled over onto his stomach and shuffled around in his sleep, bopping me in the side of the head with his elbow.

It didn’t really hurt, so I said, “Ow,” and laughed mostly out of reflex.

Our cat, however, snapped her head up and stared at us both, wide-eyed, looking back and forth. Then, she put her ears back, walked up to my sleeping husband, reached out hesitantly, and very lightly swatted at the side of his face before running away.

He didn’t so much as twitch, let alone wake up, but it’s nice to know the cat has my back anyway.

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