Do you have "Alarm clock" pets?

[charlie and algernon]

For awhile Esther the cat would wake me up at precisely 7am every morning with loud purring next to my face followed by my forehead being licked. By ignoring her, I got her to move her alarm to 8am when my actual alarm goes off. where then she'll sit by my bed staring up at me till i get up. Then this morning was awoken by a *taptaptap* on my shoulder. I wake up and there's Esther sitting next to my pillow. I pet her, close me eyes again and immediately get another *taptaptap* followed by a sandpaper cleaning of my shoulder till I was awake :crazy: It was then when I got up did I realize why I needed to get up NOW!!!!! her water and food bowls were empty!!!!!!!!


What about you? how do your pets wake you up?

[Mari333]

1. I have 2 male cats who wake me up

whilst trying to hump each other..I use my feet to kick them off the bed..its so annoying. I figure, if I cant have sex in that bed they sure as hell cant. Your cat sounds so sweet lol.

[charlie and algernon]

5. they do that every morning???

methinks you need to get some female cats for them, lol!

my cat's great, I don't know if she'll ever be a lap cat, but she spends every night sleeping 5 inches from my head. In that way, she's the ultimate sidekick, doesn't like to be held for very long and will never sit on your lap, but gosh darn it, she'll be right by your side at all times, lol.

[Mari333]

9. pretty much

aww she sounds like shes your bestest friend. my dog takes up the sleeping by my side position. the cats sleep by my feet. i am always boxed in by them all. the bird stays in his cage thank god.
but isnt it nice to wake up in the morning with a little tribe all cuddled up . makes it worth being in this world.

[flvegan]

2. My great dane sits on me.

Yeah, it was cute when he weighed 25 lbs. Now that he's pushing 90 or so, not so much.

[Lyric]

3. We used to. Not so much anymore.

However, we DO have a cat that insists on sleeping in between us every single night, ALL night.

:hi:

[Rhythm]

36. I beg your pardon... your cat IS my alarm clock!

Her Imperial Spotness wakes me up for work in the mornings... 4:14am sharp, which is exactly 1 MINUTE before the electronic clock beeps at me. *L*

[MorningGlow]

4. Our cats don't wake us up

unless they detect movement. One slight twitch of an arm, and at least two of them are all over us like white on rice, until we fling them.

But our part-Persian pisspot runt yells at Mr. MG at precisely 10:00 every night--"Meeeeeeew!" "Tiem for bed!" And then she "herds" him up the stairs so she can sleep between his knees.

It was a pain when the clocks changed--for a week she started yelling at 9:00. :eyes:

[soleiri]

14. That's my Lil Girl kitty

As soon as Lil Girl sees “signs of life!”

she’s at it.
As soon as I move, turn over, stretch, twitch, whether or not I'm even awake, she starts.
a gravely elongated meeerrrr meeerrrrr meeerrr.
this is usually at 5:30 am
Signs of life! feed me!

[Withywindle]

6. I have a desk in my bedroom.

My Madimi perches on it and calmly, deliberately, bats items off it onto the floor one by one, while staring at me. I can't keep anything on there that's even vaguely breakable.

Since I got her, I have really learned the meaning of "crepuscular."

[TZ]

11. Thats plan B in my household.

If for some reason claw- in- ass does not work, knocking EVERYTHING off the nightstand is next...

[Withywindle]

39. Claw in ass? That's hardcore!

My girl does this thing where, when my t-shirt has ridden up in my sleep, she EVER. SO. GENTLY extends one teeny little needle claw to the small of my back. It's so dainty. So precise. So delicate. So sinister. :scared:

[TZ]

41. My cats do NOT know the meaning of subtlety....

Before they got too fat er big..they would sit on my clock radio to turn it on to wake me up...and NOT necessarily around when it was supposed to go off...

[TZ]

7. HA!

Esther has nothing on my cats. I was just telling coworkers how I don't need a snooze alarm..as soon as my radio starts blaring my cats start in on me...This morning about 2 minutes after the alarm started on of my cats (and I'm not sure whom both have done this in the past) decided the best way to get me up was a claw right in MY ASS. YEOUCH!!!
Count yourself lucky that Esther contains herself to a polite tap on the shoulder and lick....
:crazy:

[dawgmom]

8. Sort of

It's not so much that they're waking me up on purpose -- it's just that they bark at the school bus every morning at 6:30 when it picks up the kid across the street, and that wakes me up. Works out great on the weekends. No school bus, so I get to sleep in.

[Mari333]

10. to add:

I have never experienced it, but I have had friends who wake up with their cats ass in their face..

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. I feed them at bed time now so I don't have to deal with that any more. LOL

[carlyhippy]

13. my cat has a method that is like clockwork every day

even on weekends....first he gets in my face and STARES, if that doesn't work he then gently paws at my face, if that doesn't work it's plan C.....gets on the dresser and chest of drawers and one by one he knocks stuff off the dresser/chest onto the floor, by then my feet are on the floor....gotta love those pets!

[geardaddy]

15. Our cat likes to groom me...

in the mornings to get me to feed her.

That damn cat tongue hurts!

[charlie and algernon]

25. it sure damn does

my forehead is a bright red after Esther is done cleaning it, lol

[geardaddy]

26. Ouch!

Forehead, scalp, anything not covered up!

[LeftyMom]

16. Vlad would jump on my chest, then twitch his little nose in my face.

The kitties don't make a habit of waking me up. I think it's their self-preservation instinct.

[mnhtnbb]

17. 5 am. Pawing on the front door sidelight--let us IN!!

[crispini]

18. I have one that wakes me up a couple of times every night.

Since it's so cold, she's taken to sleeping under the covers with me -- and this is a cat, not a dog -- but the little darling (ha!) gets up during the night, can't get back in, and then pats me with her paw until I wake up and let her back under the blanket. Little wretch. She's lucky she's cute.

[meow2u3]

19. BOTH my cats wake me up at 6 in the morning

to feed them. Ruby lies on me, mrowing and digging her claws in me; and Max runs--you heard that right, RUNS--on me, at full speed, until I wake up to feed them! As big as Max is (mind you, he's only 10 months old and he's a big as a Maine Coon), he freakin' hurts me.

[sakabatou]

20. Yes, my cat Yo-Yo wakes me up at 5am

[LynneSin]

21. Seriously both of my cats are annoying as hell - especially on the weekends

They're use to being fed a certain time during the week when I work. So if I try to sleep in on the weekends they'll wake me up if I sleep past their normal weekday feeding time.

Annoying cats!

[charlie and algernon]

23. someone would make a fortune if they could find a way to teach

cats the meaning of the weekend.

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. What I'm getting from this thread

is that DUers regularly starve their pets until they end up having to slash at their owners' faces, in desperation. Oh, the humanity :cry:

[TZ]

27. lol

Yeah Smokie is so food deprived she looks like a big gray basketball....Smokie is a walking black hole of hunger..The more she eats the hungrier she gets...:crazy:

[charlie and algernon]

28. lol, Esther is just 14 pounds of muscle too

not an ounce of fat on her! :rofl:

[Fire Walk With Me]

29. Her stomach is obviously linked back to the stomachs of starving kitties

back in her home dimension. An Einstein Rosen bridge for kibble. You are causing the death of an entire kitteh empire, you meanie.

[Rob H.]

24. My cat used to wake up at the barest hint of daylight

Now that she's settled in she sleeps in the bed with me until I get up, thank goodness.

[Alexander]

30. My cat will sit quietly in my room until he sees me move.

At that point, he goes into alarm clock mode.

He lets me sleep, but he's very good at keeping me awake once I wake up.

[LisaL]

38. Yea mine is the same way. He waits until I move then jumps on

the bed. When I completely wake up he jumps off.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. I've always had alarm cats

but their methods have varied.

The late Teddy, for example, would do his morning gravity checks when he decided it was time for me to get up. I had to keep everything on the floor or he'd shove it off the table.

My current cats have other ways of pestering me. Milo puts his face right next to mine and tickles me with his whiskers. Pixie walks on me and sticks her butt in my face. Jeoffry just sits at the foot of the stairs and howls like a banshee.

These actions usually occur as soon as the alarm clock goes off at 6:30 a.m., and they make the snooze button useless.

A weird thing happened once: I had to get up really early one morning (4:00 a.m.) to catch an early flight for work -- but for some reason I forgot to set the alarm the night before. The cats woke me up at 4:15 a.m. They never wake up that early. I had to rush but I made the flight. How the hell did they know?

[Captain Hilts]

32. At 5:30, if Mosby was 'in', he wanted 'out'. If he was 'out' he wanted 'in'. Little Skeezix...

Howls at me at around 6am.

[littlebit]

33. Every morning around 6 my beagle

jumps on my chest and starts licking my face. As soon as I get up she lays in my spot and goes back to sleep.

[Godhumor]

34. My cats learned how to make a noise like fingernails on a chalkboard

Using their sheathed claws and the wall. It gets me up out of bed every single time they do it, as the sound burrows to the very put of my soul.

They also do it at precisely 6 am to tell me it is breakfast time, and, due to the horrifying nature of the sound, my body has reprogramed itself to wake up at 5:55 and go feed them before they can do it.

[pitohui]

35. wake me up? ha! my birds invented the snooze alarm

your results may vary and most parrots are known to sing out the dawn chorus (that is to squawk at the rising sun and take credit for it)

my parrots think they are owls and party late and sleep late

guess i'm the bad influence

[Kali]

37. macaw -

the squawking and screaming starts approximately 30 minutes BEFORE daylight.

squirrel - has a "silent" plastic wheel that sounds like an out of balance washing machine - she starts just before the bird.

[bluedawg12]

40. One of our cats bites my partner on the nose every morning at 5 am.

They have a special bond. :rofl: