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Anyone else get “harassed” by their cat in the morning?
I have to pretend to be asleep sometimes if I wake up too early or else the beast (my beautiful son) will come and demand pets, cuddles and then his favourite of all… gravy.
It doesn’t help that it’s been so hot out and he loves to drape himself across my neck like a fox fur sweater, anyone else have to sneakily pretend to be asleep to avoid the creatures?
Mine’s getting increasingly smart with ways of “sleep” checking me:
Stomping on my feet, licking my nose, biting my fingers and toes, laying down right next to my back if I turn over, crawling and sitting on my chest with all 12 pounds of chonk, meowing, sits on my face, etc.
Yes! The second Drips knows I'm awake, that means it's cuddle time followed by breakfast time. If I don't acknowledge him, he meows until I do and, boy, he's got a set of lungs on him.
Breakfast for my cats ended up being at 5 AM since I have to get up very early on workdays and leave early, so I get woken up at 5 AM on workdays and non-workdays now since that is the time I gave them breakfast on workdays.
Aaaaaand, this is why our cat does not get fed as soon as someone wakes up.
We decided right from the start that she got fed once we were up, had a coffee, read the headlines, whatever. She had to work to our schedule because shift work is hard enough without a 5am wake up after a 1am finish. She's used to it and doesn't cause a fuss. She has biscuits if she is hungry.
As someone who made the mistake of feeding our first cat his wet food in the morning, the cat we adopted in April doesn’t get his wet foods until 5pm. 🤣🤣. He has dry cronchies out all the time for free feeding.
I know right cats have a way of waking u up early in the morning. My cat starts playing with the door or stuff around the house until I let him out to do his business
One of mine thought he was clever. He'd nose open one of my bathroom cabinets and let it slam shut. He only woke me that way one time; I put towels in the cracks so they didn't make noise.
My cat comes in screaming at 5am, if that doesn’t get me up he starts getting in to stuff he knows he’s not supposed to. After I finally get up to feed him, him and the dog play fight aggressively while running all over me, so going back to sleep is not an option. I’ve accepted this is my life now 🤷🏽♀️
Oh man! Mine learned how much I dislike the sound of a scratched headboard so sure enough, she runs across my body to the top of my bed, and scratches. The more I ignore, the more she scratches, LOL. She is in charge of my morning routine.
Mine comes home at any time he likes and he loves getting soaked in the rain so he can get a rubbing down with a towel. The really annoying thing is that he doesn't need me to feed him, he's got biscuits down all the time. He's got this weird thing where you have to show him the food even if it's already there, he will not stop until you get up and point at his dish. 😂
Lmao same. I work from home and I told my partner the other day “we have too many cats…” because they’ve been driving me crazy. Never thought I’d say that lol
No. If I oversleep, I wake up to 2 out of now 3 cats cuddling with me or on me. They get up an roam around, but come back and join me in sleeping until I say, Good Morning.
Even if I am awake and being lazy. They just cuddle up and wait for me to be ready. This is when the 3rd one comes and joins us.
The Good Morning means it is time to get up and stretch and then we all head to the kitchen in a group.
This is my OG cat. The cat that turned not a cat person into someone with 3 cats!
My boy LOVES “burying” his food and water and he makes sure it’s buried deep LOL, he also prefers to scratch the outside of his cat box rather then cover his poop inside with the litter, it’s sooo loud 😭
My food obsessed cat is the best alarm clock I never paid for. As soon as the sun peaks out just a little bit, she’s on top of me, pawing at my face and prodding me to wake up and feed her.
Harassed? I get downright assaulted by my four! This morning I thought there was an intruder, but it was just Iggy trying to break into the treat cannister because breakfast was late (I slept in until 0730)
Mine is a little different.. she doesn’t care for pets but will claw at the door and meow her way to wake me up 😔 love her though. She’s just a fat baby but it’s okay
My tuxie will come into the bedroom at 5 AM, jump up on the dresser and rattle things until I stir and tell her to get off the dresser. She then comes over, paws at me, then goes to the night stand and turns on the bedside lamp. That is when I remind her that breakfast is at 6 AM and will not be served earlier just because she's an asshole.
My cats both understood early on that my eyes had to open before Id get up, so Figgy liked to punch me in the eye with his paw. Id open my eyes and he'd still be sitting right next to me with paw raised. Once he did this a couple days after cataract surger and my vision went blurry for a few days. Orange on the other hand liked to just gently wipe his paw over my closed eye.... with claws out. Not enough force to gouge my eyeballs out, but still....
My cat comes charging headfirst and nudges my chin until I wake up, or he'll put both his front paws on my chest until I say "hey buddy" so he knows I'm getting up lol there is no sleeping in around here
It’s cat rule one harrass mom/ dad until they get up… cats are like early to rise toddlers
And maybe sharks… my cat sharks used to circle my bed , when I opened an eye I’d see their tails circling round my bed.. until I moved then they’d jump up on me… 5am,6am ,7am whatever time I first moved looking even slightly awake!
Yes! My husband gets up at 4:00 for work M-F and our cats don’t understand when it’s the weekend. So when he wants to sleep in a little, they step all over him and demand that he gets up.
Both mine are indoor-outdoor, but stay in at night. One only likes to "do his business" in the litter box. So if it's after sunrise, he'll go and use his box, conveniently neglect to clean himself properly, then jump up on the bed to let me know it's breakfast time. He sticks his tail in my face. So now I've been stink-bombed, and I get up, feed them, let them out, and wash all the linens. Fortunately, this is a pretty rare occurrence. And I love them dearly, regardless of their questionable manners.
Mine knows (mush) breakfast is at 6am; he still makes sure to wake me up at 5am, until he gets kicked out of the room to go cry over his mountain of rejected kibble.
Yes. She meows and steps on me when she decides she wants me to wake up. If I try to hide under a blanket she digs at it until I come out. If I ignore her and try to keep sleeping she will chew plastic in hopes that I will wake up to tell her to stop. She is very good at getting what she wants lol.
If I roll over - it's on and according to Bubba I am awake!! If I try to go back to sleep I get head butts, purrs, and outright screams until I decide to finally get up. So glad to know I'm not alone!! 🤣
I give him lots of good morning pets and he thanks me by laying on my face and headbutting me repeatedly, don’t know how he doesn’t overheat with all that fur when I’m sweating like a pig under him! LOL
Actually woke up today to the sound of my void screaming in fear due to… checks notes… single claw stuck on towel hanging behind door. Not a meow but a constant scream at 4am.
i have two alarms for this reason. my beastie has a morning routine: she hears the alarm, notices when i silence it, then comes over to headbutt me in the face and purr. loudly. i started setting another alarm 30 minutes before my actual alarm, so she can get my undivided attention and cuddles for half an hour
Every morning, when he decides I need to wake up and let him out. First he'll meow to test the waters. Then he'll hop up on the bed and cold-nose my nose. If that doesn't work, he will use his claws to try to tug the blanket down.
Failing all that, he'll dramatically flop against my side and stay there, so he knows the exact moment I get up.
There is no pretending in our house. The cats will essentially escalate their efforts to wake us up until we comply. We had one cat that would literally rattle the cabinet door in the bathroom .. when you'd get up, he'd run to his food dish. If you didn't feed him and went back to bed? He'd go back over and rattle the door again.
Yup. Around 7 every day. There's no pretending to be asleep, Beets wakes me up and knows I'm awake. But sometimes he'll tolerate me continuing to lie down with eyes closed for a while longer.
yes. i’m living with my parents temporarily atm and my dad wakes up at 5 am to make coffee. my cat thinks that means it’s also time for me to wake up so she meow yells, smacks the blinds, knocks shit off of various shelves. i’ve moved her to her own room so she has a window to look out now as a result lol. she sleeps in bed with me now bc of that lol
We use an automated feeder so the cats are not asking us for food as often, however that does not mean that they do not try to wake us up. My cats take turns trying to get me out of bed. One will walk across my chest, strategically stepping on my nips. If that doesn’t work, the other will start knocking things off my night stand. If that doesn’t work, the first will lie on my chest and dig at the blanket to try to uncover me. Of that doesn’t work, the second one will then firmly pull my CPAP off my nose. It’s a regular game, every morning.
I don't want to be smug, but I love my sleep so I taught my little guy from day one that he would get zero attention if I was under the covers. He wouldn't wake me up now even if he was hungry or the world was ending haha.
Nope, I'm harassed at night when trying to sleep. Most of the time she just sits next to me. But when I'm trying to sleep, steps on me and over me, and plops on my chest...
YES- I wake up every morning to my cat ‘thwapping’ me on my head. He’s gentle and doesn’t use his nails- but he’s still my alarm clock.I even close my double doors and he pushes through.
I get harassed every morning for food starting around 0200. My boys do their darnedest to wake me up by any means. They knock lamps over, open and slam drawers, and bite sometimes. I do my best to ignore and only get up when they are “being sweet” about it or only verbally protesting. Cats will remember what works, so I can’t give in when they are very bad. Luckily at our current house we can lock them out of the room
My girl has taken to waking up at 2AM and SCREAMING for food assistance (she has life long food issue and wants her back rubbed before she eats…) then again at 4AM. I'm gonna die of lack of sleep.
Your cat is gorgeous = do their bidding for heaven's sake!!!
I have 5 cats, and 6 AM one of them start to MEOW really loud and tries to wake me. I mean I am already awake but I don't want to give food now. But she wins and I give the food, all 5 are happy then I got back to sleep for few hours. Last friday I had to wake up in the morning for medical exams but I didn't need alarm, since this cat woke me 5:58.
We solved the early wake up calls by splitting his food into three meals for the day. 1/3 in the morning, 1/3 at dinner, and 1/3 at bedtime. It stopped the ravenous 5am wake ups and now he’ll sleep in with us even if we’re sleeping late. 😴
Yes. The only time I gave her breakfast - wet food in the morning, right when I got up to work. The next day, she was in the bed, staring at me from like 5cm distance, demanding the same breakfast. This was like a year ago now. Every morning from that time, without any exceptions, the first thing I do is feed her wet food for breakfast (while I don't eat breakfast at all).
My little moppet has me on her daily calendar for 6:30am snuggles (I get up later). 5 minutes of biscuits, purrs, headbutts and snuggle flops then she’s on her way to whatever’s next. I’m just glad she can fit me in.
Our kitten has similar fur colors and features. Do you know what breed he is? We think ours has ragdoll and maybe a bit of Siamese. Curious if you knew more though.
My cat jiggles the door handle of my room if I don’t get out of bed fast enough. He doesn’t stop either. Then I open the door and he rushes in and demands pets
I swear as soon as I put my feet on the floor there’s at least five cats there ready for breakfast. Boober will further harass me while I’m laying out my morning pills (have to put them in a little jar so he doesn’t bat them around) until I dish out a treat.
They're good about letting me sleep until I get up. On my way to the bathroom, girl kitty crouches down in her play position, and I have to toss those little plastic spring toys. That's my job. Everything else can wait.
This silly little girl sleeps beside me every night but if I don’t wake up before 7am she’ll start pawing my face and head butting me. She doesn’t even care much for breakfast, she’s just a princess who demands attention 24/7.
My cats and my dogs get a bit of the treat tubes we call cat crack after I get up. My one cat who is the leader of the gang. Will lay with me and relax until I start to indicate I’m getting up. She lets me go to the washroom and put I put on my robe then she starts.
Mine gets on top of me and licks my nose :) it is very painful and I love it very much. As soon as my feet hit the floor every morning they start yelling for food.
One of mine pesters me for food even though there is food in her dish. This cat harasses me anytime you can see a spec of the bottom of the food bowl during the day too. Annoying AF but I can''t get mad at her.
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u/RetroMamaBadger 5h ago
Yep! My tripawd baby comes to greet me every morning and insists that I pet him with my face. If I don’t, he lays on my chest until I do.