I wasn’t an animal person

I wasn’t an animal person, but I didn’t mind taking care of Zappa. There were only two things I didn’t like. The first was that Aaron kept the litter box in the kitchen, so I had to smell Zappa’s poop every time I prepared my food. The second was that Zappa ate tuna fish. Not the tuna fish that people eat, but the tuna fish that cats eat. It just so happened that I ate a can of tuna fish every day to make sure I got enough protein. I would stand at the kitchen counter, using separate but identical can openers, one for my tuna and one for Zappa’s, but both cans smelled the same, and both can openers smelled the same, and I began to feel like I was eating cat food, and the thought of this nearly put me off tuna entirely. It would have been really risky if I had stopped eating tuna. I was already down to 100 pounds. The tuna was keeping me alive.