My cats can tell the time!
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My 2 cats amaze me, in the morning my partners alarm goes off at 5am, I am quite often already awake and I just lay quietly and watch the sneaky movements of my two male cats... at about 4.55am I start to hear the patter of paws ponder upstairs or out of the whatever room they have claimed as their own that night, then they come into our room and sit on the bedside cabinet just a minute or so before his alarm goes off! they then sit there quietly for the 10 mins that the alarm is on snooze and then just before it goes off, and I mean 30 seconds before they move onto the bed and start climbing on him, meowing and if that does not work then the pouncing begins 
how?!?!? how do they know the time?!? lol
and whats even more amazing is that they don't do it at the weekend? lol
Im really quite fascinated by this, does anyone elses cats do this?
my clever boys
how?!?!? how do they know the time?!? lol
and whats even more amazing is that they don't do it at the weekend? lol
Im really quite fascinated by this, does anyone elses cats do this?
my clever boys
Edited by Mubby on Tuesday 12th February 16:42
Mine meiow at me when it is time for dinner. Usually around about 18:00. Woe betide me if I am much later than 20 minutes in getting their food.
They shout, or mieow, what I am sure is pretty nasty abuse in cat at me. They don't get physical, just make loads of different grumpy and very loud noises at me.
They shout, or mieow, what I am sure is pretty nasty abuse in cat at me. They don't get physical, just make loads of different grumpy and very loud noises at me.
Mine are also fantastic for this. Unlike other posters though, they get physical.
They'll be waiting on the bed or bedsides tables a few minutes before the alarm goes off. If you ignore the alarm, or it's the weekend, may the lord have mercy upon you.
It starts with meowing, moves on to "oh, woe is me, no food, oh no" yowls of such heartbreaking despair that you half expect the SPCA to start breaking down the doors.
Should this prove unsuccesful, due to either real or feigned sleep, it moves on to jumping onto the bed, then bounding up and down on your stomach.
Next, it's whiskering - careful application of whiskers to your face in the most ticklish fashion imaginable - this normally works, and results in a smug looking cat 'I knew that would do it".
It's rare that this fails. However, being wily, they do have a next move. Licking of the face. Frankly, this is not a pleasant way to wake.
It's only progressed beyond this once, when I woke to one of them trying to throttle me by standing on my throat. This was pretty dramatic, as the one in question is a heavy sod. Needless to say, I fed him at that point, and have no plans to experiment to see what they'd try after that...
They'll be waiting on the bed or bedsides tables a few minutes before the alarm goes off. If you ignore the alarm, or it's the weekend, may the lord have mercy upon you.
It starts with meowing, moves on to "oh, woe is me, no food, oh no" yowls of such heartbreaking despair that you half expect the SPCA to start breaking down the doors.
Should this prove unsuccesful, due to either real or feigned sleep, it moves on to jumping onto the bed, then bounding up and down on your stomach.
Next, it's whiskering - careful application of whiskers to your face in the most ticklish fashion imaginable - this normally works, and results in a smug looking cat 'I knew that would do it".
It's rare that this fails. However, being wily, they do have a next move. Licking of the face. Frankly, this is not a pleasant way to wake.
It's only progressed beyond this once, when I woke to one of them trying to throttle me by standing on my throat. This was pretty dramatic, as the one in question is a heavy sod. Needless to say, I fed him at that point, and have no plans to experiment to see what they'd try after that...
At 6:25 every morning, one of my cats will meow like crazy, desperate for food.
At 6:45, this progresses to him using his claws to pull the duvet back (yes, really), occasionally catching skin.
At 6:55, when the duvet is far enough back and I'm still not awake then my nipple gets nibbled. By the cat.
Much like the poster above, I have no desire to see what happens at 7am, nipple-noms are not nice.
At 6:45, this progresses to him using his claws to pull the duvet back (yes, really), occasionally catching skin.
At 6:55, when the duvet is far enough back and I'm still not awake then my nipple gets nibbled. By the cat.
Much like the poster above, I have no desire to see what happens at 7am, nipple-noms are not nice.
Bast used to chew nipple if she could get at it!
Both Bast & Chilli could tell the time, not just Mum gets up at X in the week & X at the weekend, and breakfast & tea time, but also "you can go out to play but I need you back at X" or "an hour".
Beauty & Pepi only know bed, breakfast & tea times.
All are insistent in their own ways, and leave visitors in no uncertainty that my cats 'talk'!
Mubby said:
My 2 cats amaze me, in the morning my partners alarm goes off at 5am, I am quite often already awake and I just lay quietly and watch the sneaky movements of my two male cats... at about 4.55am I start to hear the patter of paws ponder upstairs or out of the whatever room they have claimed as their own that night, then they come into our room and sit on the bedside cabinet just a minute or so before his alarm goes off! they then sit there quietly for the 10 mins that the alarm is on snooze and then just before it goes off, and I mean 30 seconds before they move onto the bed and start climbing on him, meowing and if that does not work then the pouncing begins
how?!?!? how do they know the time?!? lol
and whats even more amazing is that they don't do it at the weekend? lol
Im really quite fascinated by this, does anyone elses cats do this?
my clever boys
Bob does this.how?!?!? how do they know the time?!? lol
and whats even more amazing is that they don't do it at the weekend? lol
Im really quite fascinated by this, does anyone elses cats do this?
my clever boys
He sleeps on a bean bag next to the radiator at night, but ten minutes before the alarm goes off, he'll jump on the bed, trampling and purring, because he wants to be fed.
Normally I set the alarm for 6.45, and what has amazed me is that the past few days I've set the alarm for 5.45, but yet he's still jumping on the bed before it goes off
However he doesn't do it at weekends, leaving me alone until about 10am. After that he goes into full-on Harry Hassle mode, ie:
http://www.simonscat.com/Films/Cat-Man-Do/?sort=o
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