How do cats wake you up?

OMG you guys are cracking me up!

Originally Posted by Feralvr

PRESLEY!!!!!!!!!!!! That is who wakes me up. Real early too. He lays across my face and neck and will even make a sweet little mew to get me going. He has also learned to walk on top of the alarm clock and if he steps on it just right, the time changes to much earlier. This morning Larry's alarm went off and he got up and and did his regular morning routine before the train. he went downstairs and saw it was only 4:30 a.m.!!!!!!!!!!!! It should have been about 5:45 a.m. (so he thought).

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...but this one takes the cake!

Lazlo just walks up and MEOWS right in my ear. Because he needs to eat, I keep a baggie of kibble under the pillow. I barely wake up now, but grab some out, and plop it on one of the cat beds so he can eat it. I've definitely woken up on a piece (or two) of kibble.

Shelly paws at my hair. This is recent. I'm SURE he learned it from Flowerbelle.

Flowerbelle paws at my hair. If that doesn't wake me, she digs and and PULLS. I have little scabs all over my head (not keeping her claws as trimmed as I should!). She will also grab a mouthful of hair and yank! OR she starts pushing her head under my neck, like she's trying to tunnel under me. It's really cute and sweet, and definitely the nicest of her methods to wake me up.

Billy just flops on my face. He's a big boy.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

Trout walks around the room and meows.

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As does Topaz followed by loud purring and tromping all over my bed.

Originally Posted by NorthernGlow

Tomu: Knocks something over, drops something, falls from somewhere and makes a huge crash sound..

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When Topaz can't get me up, Ari takes over and does something similar.

I have also been awakened by noxious fumes coming from the litter box.

Maia has several methods of attempting to wake me up with one goal, food! Even if I get up to use the bathroom, it is 'Don't forget to feed me on the way back to bed!'
If I don't get up at the crack of kitty dawn, she has several sometimes effective, extremely annoying methods of waking me. There is the pawing at the edge of the garbage bag liner in the kitchen, the chewing and ripping of paper anywhere in the area. Then there is always the whiskers in the face, 'Hello, how are you?!' at any move I make after 4am!

Mine dont wake me up. Normally the devils are in bed with us still sleeping snuggled in the middle of DF and me. Herc is passed out on the couch most mornings and Gigi hears the alarm and runs to the bathroom right away and talks to me when I get up to pee.

Tippy waits outside the bedroom door and "screams". She has some siamese in her so I think most of you know what that sounds like. She has quite a pair of lungs. Tony just pounds on the bedroom door with his paws (he's a good size - 14 or 15 lb. cat). Angel is pretty good and just waits patiently until we open the door. We don't let all 3 sleep with us all night - usually just Angel or Tippy. And when Tippy wants "out" she yowls at the door until we open it for her.

Audrey seems to coo and then licks my nose.... it's very effective I tell ya. Jasper on the other hand when we didn't lock him in the bathroom at night seemed to think it was acceptable to knock over a marble lamp on my head. That is one of the main reasons his 'bedroom' is now in the bathroom. I have scars from Jasper's botched wake up experiments.

Jamie has found the most effective way of getting me up is to force a paw into my mouth. Yuck!

Nora is the only one that sleeps with us at night, the boys just make too much racket and keep us up. When Nora is ready to leave the room, she goes over to the door, puts her paw under it and grabs it, and jiggles it back and forth. It's her way of knocking on the door to say she wants out. LOL! Every once in a while she will gently pat our faces with her paw to wake us up (she sleeps between our pillows).

Originally Posted by jcat

Jamie has found the most effective way of getting me up is to force a paw into my mouth. Yuck!

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Silly Jamie!

Riley occasionally paws at my hair, but his general method of waking me up is to knock everything off of ... well ... everything

First he climbs onto the dresser, knocks off my watch, my computer mouse, whatever clothes I might have laying on there.
Then he gets onto my nightstand, knocks the alarm clock off, then leans into the fan and knocks it off too. I of course, am woken up, put them back on the nightstand and then we repeat this little game until I'm irritated enough to actually get out of bed and feed him.

Xander doesn't try to wake me up, he just goes to sleep next to me

So I'm one of the only ones whose cat bites them, sometimes HARD to wake them up? Wessie also knocks things off of my shelf and just keeps going all around the room until I wake up...

Yesterday Kairi woke me up playing with the buttons on the clock You can imagine the reaction that got!
I blocked the clock this morning, so he crawled under the blanket between me and my husband and clawed at my butt, purring.

He's getting used to sleeping with us, but we have to change his inner alarm clock.

Whisper and Bootser start screaming around 4:00 or so for their breakfast. And it just goes downhill from there.

Mine wakes me up at 7:55 every morning, which is OK since my alarm would wake me up at 8 anyway! They'd stick their faces in mine and tickle me with their whiskers.

The real question is what doesn't Holland do to wake me up...

She usually starts by jumping not on the bed, but right onto my stomach. Then the kneading starts - usually my leg or shoulder. If that doesn't work my face or my hand gets headbutted. If I really don't want to get up she'll finally settle herself down on my shoulder and just sit there for a few minutes, then back to kneading and headbutting.

The rudest wake up I ever had, besides the normal running and jumping on the bed, is when bobcat Amber peed on my shoulder, because I wasn't getting up fast enough