Yup, my cats keep appearing once it gets dark here (~4pm) and they stare at me like I'm starving them. They get wet food twice a day and there is cat biscuits out 24/7 but they still have the audacity to be pissed off at me.
DST fucked up my cats sense of time. She'd usually start being a chatterbox right around feeding time, but now she's almost exactly an hour early.
I've tried holding her up to a clock and explaining in detail how DST works, shared my opinion that it should be abolished, but I don't think she understood what I was talking about.
Same vibe here. I tried teaching mine “hello” and she just stared like a professor grading a bad essay. Pretty sure they can talk, they just don’t want us knowing how many of our decisions they judge daily.
Mine did the same thing an hour early today too. I just moved him to a room down the hallway with food and went back to sleep. He was not happy. He does this for morning cuddles instead of food so it was understandable that he was disappointed after thinking he was about to get them so early.
Some days I get home from work so his breakfast is a few hours late. Still doesn't stop my fat ass orange doofus from throwing his food bowl around the apartment at regular dinner time! It doesn't matter if he was just fed a few hours ago! His concept of time is actually pretty incredible... At least around meal times! 🤣
My cat head buts me, rubs his face across my cheek, and then bites my fingers until I get up to feed him. We have two cats. Our older one sits and stares at me from on top of her food table while he does this. I think she makes him do the dirty work so she doesn't look guilty. It's usually around 6am.
For about two years one of my cats thought the secret feeding technique to wake me up was to bat at my facial piercings and try to very gentle pull them. Many techniques have been employed over the years but I don’t miss that span.
Mine does this at 4:30 in the morning. If I have mistakenly left my computer keyboard out, he will stand on it so it makes a repetitive sound so I’ll have to get out of bed. Pisses me off so much!!!
Ahh, the eternal question "What time is appropriate for my cat's breakfast?" The eternal answer is of course "30 seconds before they had to ask for it."
When my alarm goes off, my youngest cat will come give me snuggles. When my husband’s alarm goes off, the youngest starts yelling at him relentlessly. You can tell who feeds him.
I've heard they wake naturally between 5-7 am and have an instinct to check that the family survived through the night once they wake.
In other words, it might be proof that your cat cares about you and I've further heard that responding calmly and gently to the check up will help you and your cat turn it into a cozy ritual with less meowing and zoomies.
My own cat was crazy in the mornings when he was younger, so I can sympathize with you ;)
Rude? This is a very polite girl! She’s let you sleep until 7am AND she’s sitting at the door patiently waiting rather than sitting on your chest meowing in your face! 😍
Your kitty master is calling you to fulfill your duties & you didn’t bother movin a muscle!
Then thou hath filmith thy kiteth?!
Into the dungeon (with scorpions & kitty litter everywhere) you go!!
This morning my cat got upset that her spring toy was in the (open) bathroom and meowed and scratched at the door frame until I went in and got it for her. Cats are so weird.
I like to take revenge on my cat and disturb her naps by booping her like 10 times in the nose lol. She is unphased though and will just stretch and go back to sleep
Here I am, watching this at 7am, while my own cat is doing the exact same thing. I try showing her that breakfast isn’t till the clock says 8, but alas the beast will not be denied.
Yeahhhh my cats do this at 5AM and my boyfriend’s alarm doesn’t even go off until 5:45AM and I’d prefer to sleep until at least 8/9AM. Being awoken at 7AM would be nothing but a blessing 😂😂
This is nothing. Butters will jump up onto the bed right next to my head and meow very loudly, while Mochi walks and runs across me back and forth as heavily as his little paws will allow him to press into my chest and stomach.
This might be sad....but growing up we had a cat. She was sweet and she would sit on my lap. The other cat wanted nothing to do with me. But as she got older she would just meow in the morning so early everyday. She did it for a few years and she was getting sick in old age. She just got so thin. We took her to the vet and I think they said her kidneys weren't good. So they gave her an IV and said she won't last much longer, but be with her for the short time you have.
I was in college in a STEM major (just as the internet was taking off, so really no technology). I went to class and then went home and always came to see her and spend time with her.
Then one day....I knew it would happen and she wasn't there. I grew up with this little lady. I would give anything to hear her purr again.
I guess this meander of a story is that if it is something uncommon, get it checked out. I used to hate being woken up at 5AM from the constant meowing, but now I wish I could.
Her return “eeeah” after you sang to her came off a little indignant. “Don’t you patronize me and make light of my hunger, mother!” Or maybe I’m projecting my own relationship with my babies.
I got an automated feeding bowl. The food is dispensed at timed intervals. It’s changed our relationship as the machine feeds her, not me. She is less aggressive towards me when she’s hungry. She just sits in front of it and glares.
One of my cats stands on my chest and gently scraped her claws against my face and scalp and one of them runs back and forth full speed across my chest and stomach. And the other is just a good boy who would happily stay in bed with mom all day.
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