My dogs seem to know what days of the week are, because if I wake up early (before 10 am) on a weekend, they are both so offended that I woke them. But if I don’t wake up on time (7:15) on a week day, they harass the fuck outta me until I get out of bed.
You have a perfectly working alarm clock then.
I think mine is just making sure I’m alive
She will wake me up if I sleep later than usual, but if I “mrow” and pat her head, she’ll lay next to me and let me go back to sleep
The reason for this is that on holidays and weekends when people allow themselves to sleep past their usual waking times they enter a lighter sleep called the Nessun Dormant phase characterised by unconscious singing like Pavarotti, which can unsettle pets.
Lmao
No but my kitty meows at me when she thinks it’s time for me to go to bed. She really just wants cuddles. It’s adorable.
no, but if I wait too long to feed my dogs then one of them will go puke on the rug and the other will climb on my chest and start making hoarking noises over my face
Dog people are special. I could never.
idk I think this makes more sense than cats that shit on your pillow on purpose
My cat is not allowed in my bedroom.
that would probably explain why it shits on your pillow when it manages to sneak in, then
I’m currently babysitting my brother’s cat and the other morning she gently put her face in my ear and meowed, jolting me awake
We used to leave out kibble and let our cats graze, but two of them are getting elderly and have weak teeth. My wife took pity on them and started supplementing their diet with wet food every morning.
I don’t think there’s anyone in the house who doesn’t regret that decision being made.
Yeah, so we got an automatic feeder that drops kibble at 5am so he goes back to sleep. Problem solved
Yeah. Whenever we try to sleep in past 5AM, one of our cats freaks out 😭
They don’t freak out, but they want me to wake up when the sun comes up, for no good reason (in my head, that is). So they meow, and leave, and return every thirty minutes, two cats acting like a snooze alarm.
They get food from the automatic feeder. It’s not a breakfast thing.
You’re fucking up the routine!
Yep. My cat is on a diet of half a cup a day. So for the two hours before I wake up, he has his say.
Simple trick.
Feed them at night.
Or get an auto feeder
You only feed your cats once a day?
We feed ours wet food twice daily and keep a dry kibble feeder bowl out 24/7.
Buuut, we do not feed them when we wake up. They get fed after the rest of the morning routine is done.
(We’ve inadvertently tested this - we had a friend stay with us and they started helping around the house by feeding the cats first thing after they woke up in the morning, which lead to the cats waking us up at 5 am for awhile. After we broke the wake up and feeding connection, they calmed down.)My boy lives by his own rules.
Refuses anything except dry food. When people advised me to get him to eat wet food for his renal health he refused it.
Vet said that eh’s going to do what he wants to.
You’re not alone, mines the same.
I do hope to get him into it at somepoint for his sake but he sees it at inedible.
The vet says that as long as he stays hydrated he can eat what he wants.
Good luck.
Same here, but they will get old and teeth won’t stay the same i suspect
Worse: Dogs. They love their routines, so since sleeping in is not the routine they jump all over me (often on my freaking nuts) until I stick to the routine.
The stray cats fighting and/or fucking right outside my window at 3am is a different issue.
I’ll get up at 9 and my cat stays in bed another 3 hours. Lazy lil shit.
