My early morning ritual is pretty much, lounge around in my easy chair with a smart phone hand in and a black kitty on my lap. He goes out before the sun comes up and then we all take it easy before the day begins. The cats been concerned about something out there in the early morning darkness. He was howling and screaming at something yesterday morning about 4:30AM. That got Ollie the dog all riled up, so I sent him out after all the noise the cat was making. I'm thinking some other Tom cat wants to kick my cat's butt or maybe the racoon's are coming around? What ever it was it had the kitty all puffed up and pissed off.