What do your cats do to get you out of bed?

So I know many of us have early risers in our feline families, but what are their strategies to get you out of bed in the morning?

Harvey has become very clever. Other than the incisive talking/rubbing he's come up with a sure fire way of getting me up. I set me cellphone (which I use for an alarm) and my glasses on the bedside table. After the first alarm goes off and I grumpily turn it off and roll back over Harvey will go and knock both my glasses and my cellphone off. Thus when my second alarm goes off I go to turn it off and have to search for my glasses (blind as a bat without them) and get to my phone. He usually knocks them under the bed so I actually have to get out of bed to find them. And tada! Momma is awake and the other two join Harvey demanding love and breakfast.

What do your furkids do?

Marcie is generally pretty patient but Darcy likes to scratch at the walls. Since I don't want her to damage the walls, she wears softclaws but the scratching still irritates me.

Bedroom is Cindy's territory, and she does sweet boom all to wake us. In fact, she'd really prefer it if we just settled down and didn't start moving around at some uncatly hour of the morning. Though, once Mum is mobile, she's definitely up for scritches, and it's at least even odds that she'll monitor breakfast production.

What do your cats do to get you out of bed?

Nothing.................because I don't let them

Morgan and Taz are trained to go to the basement at night. Far from being a dark, dreary place of exile, this is their territory with food, water, toys, hiding places, climbers, etc.

Treats at 10:30 or so help too.

If they were not down there at night, Morgan would basically not let me sleep at night. This 10 year old tuxedo girl loves the night and "gallops" like a kitten about once every hour of the night. It is exhuberant, cute but totally devistating to sleep patterns

Kasey stays upstairs at night. She lived the first 8 to 10 years of her life outside a home setting, I think she is just happy to be safe and comfortable.

She has imprinted on me and bides her time at night between "guarding" me by sleeping at my feet or quietly "patroling" the house. She is very quite and settled.............unless she thinks there is something outside that need to be "run off" (Guard Tortie); fortunately, that is not very often, the noises she makes then are "not of this world"

Buster will touch his nose to my nose a few times. If I ignore him, he will eventually press his nose to mine and hold it there. If that doesn't work he moves on to alternatley staring at me and tapping my cheek.

Trout will meow and walk around on my tummy and chest..not all the time though.

One of my buddy's cats jumps up and "grooms" the top of his head, at 6:00AM, sharp

Whimsey starts gently patting my nose with his paw. When that doesn't work, he starts patting my mouth. When that doesn't work, he goes to the big guns and starts biting my neck! He is unbelievably determined when he is hungry and mom isn't paying attention!

Mine prefer that I stay in bed in the morning. I always have about 5 cats doing their best to pin me down in the morning. They would prefer a late breakfast with more mom snuggle time.

They used to walk across the top of me in the morning and land right on my bladder. That got me up right away, so they no longer do that.

George walks around the bedroom, talking up a storm. He'll then jump up on the side table (the one on the otherside of where I'm sleeping) - still talking away. He won't come on the bed if he knows that I'm awake - his goal is now to get me out of bed! And that usually happens because I can't take the constant meowing!!

Ellie, on the other hand, would be happy if we stayed in bed all day...

I love these visions I'm getting of all these kitties trying their own little tricks to get their people out of bed!

Larry has taken to racing around. And I mean racing. And around me on the bed! He'll come running really fast and jump on the bed, not breaking his stride, and not caring if my head and body are in the way. This morning I yelled, "Larry!" and he stopped for one second, glanced at me, and raced off. Then did it again.

It's a good thing I'm a morning person and usually in a good mood when I wake up.

I get up before the cats on weekdays, and on weekends when I sleep in a little they take themselves out to the living room and play.

Franky tends to wedge himself between my boyfriend and I and sleep with us. But when he decides it's time for me to get up, he'll get up in my face and starting 'chirping'.. That usually doesn't work, so then he'll start pawing at my neck over and over. If I decide to turn over, he'll follow suite and then start nipping at my nose, cheeks.. whatever he can get to. Usually, it's soft love bites, but once it gets to the point that it actually hurts, I get up and give him the satisfaction of knowing he woke me up.

Bladder bounces from Dory. Eden lays on my chest. Ophelia doesn't care if I'm dead or alive, so long as she is fed. The fosters Itty Bitty bites my nose & Camille kneads my face/purrs in my face.

The rest don't have access to my bedroom.

Fiona is really good about leaving me alone in the a.m., so when she does want me I feel obliged to get up. She will come over to my face (even if it is under a pillow), get real close and meow as loud as she can very effective!

Rocko is more "hands on", he will touch my face with his paw till I get up....or even more annoying just sit and stare at me...which eventually creeps me out enough to get me out of bed.

I wake the cats up in the a.m. I get up at 4, and they look at me like "are you nuts getting up this early?" Great payback for all the years of bladder bounces, pawed faces, stolen earplugs, and piercing pulls.

If the glares and mews don't get me up, Topaz resorts to tromping on my stomach and meowing louder.

Then she gets Ari involved. I don't see him, but will hear crashes from the other room or have my nose hairs curled by an especially noxious dump in the litter box.

Hahaha, these are great!

Lua sleeps really well through the night. As far as I know, she doesn't get up at all. But every morning at around 6am she wakes up. She uses the litter box, meows at the door for a moment, and then jumps on the bed and does her little chirp/squeak. Then she'll pounce/attack any tiny move that I make under the covers. She usually just pokes my nose with hers and glares with this really happy playful look on her face, lol.

On occasion, she'll bring her toy mouse and drop it on me. When I'm awake, she'll bring it, I'll toss it, she'll bring it back. A few mornings ago, she must have batted the mouse in her water dish, and then she dropped it on my face. A cold wet furry thing dropped on your face will wake you up.

Originally Posted by prairienights

..... A few mornings ago, she must have batted the mouse in her water dish, and then she dropped it on my face. A cold wet furry thing dropped on your face will wake you up.

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Okay, that made me laugh out loud.

These great examples reminded me of a cat, Gudrun, that I had for a long time. She lived to be 16 1/2. Her morning routine was sticking her nose in my ear and purring really loudly. It tickled, and was a very gentle way to wake up.

Ooh. That just reminded me that I miss that little ball of fur.

Prissi is usually the one to wake me up, and I'm never really sure why. Typically, her methods are licking/nibbling on my ear, and gnawing on my shoulder/arm like an ear of corn. Although all of them are usually in the room with me in the morning, wanting breakfast, I'm pretty sure she just does it for the attention.

If The Priss doesn't get me up, then Oliver will, by jumping on the bed and wanting to frantically claw and gnaw on whatever is under the blankets; which is, of course, me.