Wes

Things worth actually looking at, in the order I would do them:

1. Oil level and what it looks like on the dipstick. You are checking for a level that has gone up and oil that smells of petrol — that is the fuel dilution above. A slight rise is not an emergency; a big one means an early oil change.
2. Coolant level, once it is completely cold. Fourteen hours of running with no airflow leans on the cooling system, and if there was a small weep you did not know about, this is when it shows itself.
3. Anything on the dashboard. A car that overheated or ran lean for hours would usually say so.

If all three are normal, treat it as a fuel bill and move on. If the oil is over the max mark and smells wrong, bring the service forward. That is the whole decision tree.

"Played with her hard before bed" is the one I would examine, because there is a common way to do it that backfires.

A long chase session with no ending leaves a cat wound up rather than settled. The sequence that works is the hunting one: stalk and chase, a catch she is allowed to win, then food, then grooming, then sleep. Cutting the toy off mid-chase and putting it away is like stopping a film ten minutes from the end.

So: fifteen minutes of wand toy, let her actually catch and hold it at the end, then her main meal of the day. Not a snack — the meal. The sleep after eating is not willpower, it is physiology, and it is the strongest lever most people are not pulling.

That is the part every article leaves out. "Equated volume" is doing all the work in that sentence and nobody says it out loud.