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.
I said meow!
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LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
kamen@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You have a perfectly working alarm clock then.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
Miller@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lmao
fodor@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
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.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
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
kinther@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Yeah, so we got an automatic feeder that drops kibble at 5am so he goes back to sleep. Problem solved
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
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
FishFace@piefed.social 2 days ago
Yeah. Whenever we try to sleep in past 5AM, one of our cats freaks out 😭
toynbee@piefed.social 2 days ago
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.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 days ago
Simple trick.
Feed them at night.
Monument@piefed.world 2 days ago
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.)DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 days ago
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 hours ago
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.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
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.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You’re fucking up the routine!
nimble@feddit.online 2 days ago
Oof, I have a cat like this. Usually she’s not too bad, but if she gets agitated at all she’s a horror story. 17 years of this, too. Normally, it’s better to just tire the cat out with playtime during the day at a time more convenient for you. She wants attention, mostly. If cats didn’t have social needs they wouldn’t make good pets, and cats do have a strong need to socialize with their humans. Normally she’s good and only comes in at about 9, 9.30am when I usually want to get up. But sometimes she gets it into her head that we need to be up much earlier, usually if we’re having trouble sleeping and she notices we’re sort of awake. Or lately she wants the faceted crystal baubles in the window to throw off rainbows for her to attack, but it’s the wrong time and she doesn’t get it and thinks we activate it. She’ll take me to the stair window first thing when I get up, and put her paws up on the sill and complain and complain, but there’s aught I can do!
The contrast is that if I or my partner are feeling sick or depressed in the morning, she’s just the sweetest, kindest creature and will just snuggle and purr, and won’t care what time you finally get up. But if you’re healthy? Forget it. We say that she’s Momma to our Owen, for those of you who have seen Throw Momma From the Train.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I’ll get up at 9 and my cat stays in bed another 3 hours. Lazy lil shit.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No
cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Noise machine and fan on, cats not allowed in the bedroom. Simple as.
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I’d like to report a hate crime
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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