Stan and Butter do have part-time jobs...

Stan's responsibilities include
1) waking me up.
2) keeping me awake.
3) finding all the most precarious places to perch - the top of the toaster oven (which is on top of the fridge), the top of the bookshelf, the top of (fill in any word here)...
3) alerting me that the water is low, the food is low, someone pooped on the floor, someone is outside the window, a suspicious noise was made two towns over, or that once again it's time for brushing

Butter's job description includes
1) periodically pouncing on Stan to let him know "Enough with all the alerting - our slave has more important things to do, like pet me."
2) crawling up my back and draping himself across my shoulders.
3) gaining weight

ideheights and Sandi,