What do you do when you get up ?

cybermoukette

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When I get up, I usually grab my cat in the arms and greet her by giving her a bunch of kisses on the cheek and the forehead. She simply loves it ! She then becomes a real purring engine !
And you ?


 

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The first thing I do is sit on the floor next to my bed and call Ivo. I spend 5 or 10 minutes talking to her, petting her and telling her how much I love her. All she does is sit there and purr and enjoy it
Then, I have to feed her (and pet her some more) before I even think of taking a shower or making coffee.
 

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go pee...... (TMI)

then walk down the stairs, with Cooper a foot
she runs to the pantry. I take out her food
and she eats breafast (I ususally go back up to bed!)
 

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As soon as my feet hit the floor, I feed the kitties their breakfast and turn on the coffeepot. After they eat, we sit for a petting and play session while I have coffee and watch the news. It's a nice way to start the day.
 

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Well I better know what I should be doing when I get up! There is usualy no less than four greeters and 3 dogs in bed with me. The cats make sure I am alive, and if not they will need to find a replacement to be sure their cans of wet food are open.
After feeding them I am allowed to go pee and make my way for the day.
They trained me well~

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I usually push three or four cats off the covers so I can get out of bed and go straight to the food bowls. If they don't eat first thing I'm given the cold shoulder for most of the morning.
Once they are fed I can fix breakfast for the rest of the family!
 

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You mean after cursing at my alarm?

I stumble downstairs, feed kitties, make coffee and try to wake up. Sometimes the cats are upstairs sleeping with us, sometimes they are already awake and waiting for breakfast.
 

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I ignore the alarm until Brian gets up and hits the snooze button. Then it's a matter of letting the dogs out, feeding the cats, feeding the dogs and feeding myself.
 

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Snuggle Merlin as he comes up just as the alarm goes off. Greet the other cats. Feed and water and clean the litter box. Get ready to go to work hug kitties goodbye!
 

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So Ady, what exactly do you feed the litter box?


I'm actually allowed to get ready myself first thing in the morning. The kitties are already up and enjoying the view out the windows, especially if the birds are in the trees. Lately, Trent has been nudging his way into the bathroom after I shower, usually sometime between brushing teeth and putting on makeup. Then of course, I have to say good morning and give him his loves.

Ophelia I think has learned to tell time. She gets up and leaves sleeping with me about 5 minutes before the alarm goes off.
She doesn't like the alarm.
 

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Originally posted by adymarie
Feed and water and clean the litter box.
Heidi - doh! Feed and water the CATS and then clean their litter box.
 

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My pair are pretty good, in the mornings. Opie is a late sleeper and is, usually, curled up in his LaZBoy, when I get up. Rowdy comes running into the bathroom and rolls over to get her belly rubbed. Ike is, always, out on the patio. He wants to dip his nose into my coffee.

Bill gets early-morning wake-ups. At about 3:30, Rowdy starts playing with his hair. He's tried to explain to her about waiting until the alarm goes off but, she's not getting it.
 

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Having owned my Raggie for not quite two weeks now, my routine is just becoming, well, routine.


When I get up, I scuff my feet to the kitchen, so as not to step on the Raggie running all around them. Then I wash/ fill his food/ water dishes. Finally, I distract him with a toy, as I run into the bathroom to get ready.

Jenk
 

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I must be lucky. I free-feed, so I don't have to feed mine in the mornings! My alarm goes off, I hit the snooze button, but don't go back to sleep because my furbabies are pounding on the door and making a ruckus (We've had to shut them out of the bedroom to get any sleep! Now that Mike's out of work, can work on letting them in.) I shuffle into the shower and start that, Mike lets them into the bedroom, I curl up with them for 5 mins or so while shower warms up. after shower, I have to try to keep them out of shower while I dry off, get dressed, etc.
 

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LOL! What a fun thread!

The "kids" are usually bounding around the living room playing when we wake up (if we're working from home). So when we wake up, I head straight for the kitchen, try not to step on them while I get the light on. (We live in an R.V., so the living room is 25 feet from the bedroom, and the kitchen is inbetween!)

They DON'T want hugs and kisses when they're in "play" mode. !!!!!!

Lazlo makes crazy-eights through my legs and talks like we're starving him while I get breakfast ready for them. Shelly just sits there like a good boy looking up at me like "Well - how long is it going to take today?"

We leave dry food out for them all day, and feed them wet food like a treat in the a.m. and p.m. But the only part they like is the gravy, so we mix several tablespoons of water with each bowl to make a "yummy" soup (not!).

When they lick up their gravy, Gary dumps the leftover into bowls he's making for the outside cats
. In the meantime, I clean the litterbox while they're slurping up their soup (it's much better than having them come climb all over me to see what I'm doing to the litterbox. It's been four months since they've moved inside and started using a litterbox, and they're still obsessed!
).

Then while Gary showers I make the bed and move all the cat toys, bags and boxes in there, so that we can have the living room to work. I play with them for a bit, then shower. Then we're ready to begin the day! (Our breakfast...)

(We snuggle with the kitties when they're ready to poop out for the day - usually around 11:00am or noonish - unless we actually had to go to the office, then we grab them despite the "play mode" and give them each a kiss before we take off! :tounge2: ).
 

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Ooops. Forgot to mention. The very first thing I do, besides trying not to step on the cats when I get out of bed, is to pick up anything we forgot to put away that got shredded by Shelly during the night. When we forget to put the whole roll of paper towels into the microwave before going to sleep, there's usually a whole roll of paper towel snow to clean up.
 

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I usually sleep with the covers over my face in the mornings. (Bedroom window faces east.) Today Tatum has figured out how to pull the covers off my face to say "Good Morning!" So much for sleeping past dawn!!
Oh well, it's bath day for them anyway. I'll post photos if you want?

Hope you are having a fun weekend everyone!
 

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Oh. I also forgot to mention. When we leave the house for the day, I make sure to unplug the printer. They've figured out how to turn it on and repeatedly hit the paper feed. And Shelly just decided several days ago that plain paper is fair game for shredding in addition to the paper towels and kleenex.



...and DragonLady, TCS LOVES pictures! I'd post 'em in a new thread, but post away!!!!

Laurie
 

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First thing in the morning I have to feed the cats or else I would get no peace.As soon as I get up they miow and run ahead of me to the kitchen where they sit at there dishes looking up at me till the food arrives.They have me so well trained.
Purrs Veronica
 

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This morning, I woke with what sounded like a Mack truck in my bed. Rowdy was snuggled up, tight against me, purring her little head off. Beats an alarm clock, any day!
 
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