The cat exploded in his sleep last night.
No one had gone to bed yet. Sitting around in the evening, email on the computer, television going, cat asleep in the chair next to me. I didn't poke him with a stick. No loud noises. His alarm could only have been internally generated. A momentary night terror perhaps. The result was an immediate explosion from a quietly sleeping cat, to an upright alert frightened animal with wild eyes and claws fully engaged. He never left the chair, just rearranged himself and it. Left some serious claw marks in the leather.
Glad he wasn't in my lap.
