How does your cat wake you up?

Every morning, if I am not up by 5AM my furry alarm clocks go...
meow, yeowww, me, me, meeeeowwwwww, while walking on my head, jumping off & back on the bed & loudly playing with the vertical blinds above my bed, like an xylophone.

They want their breakfast.

I love my dear boy Reilly to death...but that is one sore spot with me is the fussing he does at night. Anywhere from 3-5am it starts. He will lay on my chest, neck or head and lick me and purr. I nicely pick him up and move him either off the bed or to the bottom and go back to sleep. On a goodnight I only have to do that 2 or 3 times before he gets the hint. On bad nights it's more like 9 or 10 times. By the time I get up in the morning I'm so tired!! but I still wouldn't trade him for the world.

My boys have quite a coordinated effort. Tailer is apparently the leader...he'll start it off by climbing onto DH's dresser and pushing off any convenient item...the noisier the better (Altoids tins seem to be preferred). That signals Forest to take up his spot next to the bed and begin meowing like he's being tormented. Shortly thereafter, Harvey will begin his attack and run across our pillows over the tops of our heads. There's no fighting it, and no putting it off. I have a sign hanging in the hallway that's all too true..."There's no snooze alarm on a cat that wants breakfast.)

Phenom usually doesn't wake me, my alarm wakes her and scares the heck out of her.

mine aren't reliable enough to use as alarms. Some mornings I get a wake up - others I don't, problem in my house is - every morning is different:
Pebbles morning: performing what we call her "fly-bys". Leaping on the bed and ONLY landing on humans - never touching the bed itself, then off the other side in split seconds - all you see is a flash.
Peanuts morning: high pitched screaming (GOD she's got a mouth!) and biting the tip of my nose for me to come see what laundry she has brought for me today from the cellar
Snickers: Walking on top of me and chattering. She weighs in at 15lbs by the way.
Zoey: does the staring thing like 2 inches from my face and just waits.
Molly: (on rare occasions and only when the others aren't around) will stuff her paws between your face and hands if you're sleeping on your hands and will whack you across the face with her paws too.

I'm not sure I"m keen on the variety. I never know what to expect

Originally Posted by Tari

I have a sign hanging in the hallway that's all too true..."There's no snooze alarm on a cat that wants breakfast.)

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That's great! I want one! Sooooo true!

Tripod usually just plops down and leans on me. Sometimes he will lay on my chest and lick my face while purring like a train.

Oliver doesn't wake me up often, but when he does he will walk up my body and gently tap me in the face.

Funny story........ when my ex-husband and I were still together, Oliver jumped on my chest in the middle of the night. As soon as I looked at him he jumped down and waited. I got the hint and followed him. He led me directly to the dog and sat down right in front of him. He was telling me that the dog was in the living room (where he was not allowed).

He did this twice - woke me up to tell on the dog!

Originally Posted by Rockcat

Funny story........ when my ex-husband and I were still together, Oliver jumped on my chest in the middle of the night. As soon as I looked at him he jumped down and waited. I got the hint and followed him. He led me directly to the dog and sat down right in front of him. He was telling me that the dog was in the living room (where he was not allowed).

He did this twice - woke me up to tell on the dog!

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That's hilarious....and so like cats!!!

Rambo is my alarm clock (until i started beating him awake when i was going to the gym). He would start to patrol and cry. If that didn't work he would get up on the dresser, and start knocking off every single object one at a time. If that didn't succeed he will nose open my jewellry box and start pulling out earrings, necklaces etc and i can hear him drop them onto the floor...and if i don't get up he takes them, hides them and i never find them. (i usually get up before we get to that phase!)

Duke the 25 pound wonder has gotten up the guts to wake me in the morning. The best way he knows how to do this is to Jump from my bureau onto my midsection about 10 minutes befor my alarm goes off. I have learned never to drink a glass of water befor bed.

Jamie has a new wrinkle - instead of biting my feet, yowling, putting his tongue in my ear or nostrils, or jumping on me, he's been sticking a paw in my mouth for the past 2 or 3 weeks. That wakes me up fast, particularly when he has his claws out! I'm really considering getting a feeder with a timer for weekends.

My cats never wake me up- in fact, when my alarm goes off I usually have to push Simon off the bed because he won't budge and he sleeps on top of the covers so he's got me pinned in!

Mine flits back and forth from the door to the bed, meowing the whole way, pausing briefly to perch nearby and stare at me (checking to see if it worked)

Jack Daniels sleeps with me at night and if I don't hear him plop down on the floor he gets into EVERYTHING that makes noise to try and wake me up. If that don't work he'll climb to the very top of the cat tree and jump off it to land right on top of me.

I never use my alarm clock now! I have three cat alarms...

Tango is the main alarm clock- he will run his paws/claws thru my hair and pull the elestastic band out of my hair (tend to put in ponytails before I go to bed) and pull at my hair with his teeth so it can be quite PAINFUL.

Pepper will dig at me with her paws on my arm persistantly till I wake up.

Pepper, Tango and Heidi also will sit around and stare at me until I get up.

On the weekends, I would get up, put out dry food for cats then go back to bed hoping to sleep but most of the time Tango won't permit me to go back to sleep.

Zebra, Buddy and Spike are the only ones who doesn't try to wake me up. Guess they know that other cats are doing a great job of it already.

Conner lays right up against my chest and neck under the covers, so his first attempt is when he is first waking. He kneads my neck and chin and face, and I get a claw every now and then. When I boot him out of the covers, he walks into the kitchen and stands there (at his already full bowl of food, mind you) and meows like I need to get up and feed him. When I proceed to tell him what a nuissance he is in my most disgruntled sleepy voice, and try to roll over and get more sleep, he takes it as an invitation that I want to play. So he pounces on my stomach or chest, and he is a heavy cat so his little paws leave bruises, ugh, and then will just stand on my chest and stare at my face. No kidding, he will just stand there all eerie like, with his face in mine staring at me. I always try to ignore it, but, darn it, when youve got a cat staring you down trying to use his telekenetic powers to get out of bed, you just can't sleep!

I'll slit one eye and look at him with a very un-amused expression and he obviously interprets it as 'I love you', because he thinks this is time to start rubbing his furry little head and face all over mine, until I have a mouthful and noseful of long cat hair and must wake up if I want to continue breathing.

Lol. Kind of a dramatic wake up call. Most of the time after all of this, and me choking on furballs, he just sits there patiently looking precious and when I go to scowl at the little nuisance, I cant help but laughing at him cuz he somehow manages to look so innocent! I usually throw the covers over him, drag him close to me, and we have our morning time pre-day cuddle for about 5 minutes of pure Conner lovin'. Who can complain too much about that?

If I don't put Megan out before I go to bed, she will usually decide that she wants out around 2 or 3 AM. She lets me know by sitting on my nightstand and pawing at the mini blinds. If Molly wants something in the night, she'll paw at the closet doors.
I once had a cat who would wake me up by sitting on my chest and licking my lips.

My cat Burlap likes to hit me in the face with his paw. luckily he never uses his claws but it can be really irritating that early in the morning.

What an enjoyable tread to read!
My girl can't wait till I get up and top up her dish, even if its full!!
She use to put her wet nose on my face and just sit there but I started blowing air at her everytime she did that so now she just pushs the top of her head against my face and leaves it there.

That's usually how Trent's first attempt works. I don't think it works very well, but he always tries mind control first.

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pandy doesn't wake me up, she falls asleep right next to me with her head on the pillow and doesn't get up until i do.

bonnie wakes me up most mornings, she either sits somwhere and stares at me or she paddles at my arm with her claws out, that gets me up every time, she also uses noise tactics and cry's until i get up and feed her.

i love her though and it never annoys me, sometimes i pull her into bed and scruff her fur to get her back

pandy only sits and stares when bonnie is on the bed with me, that's the only time pandy won't jump up, she just looks at me and bonnie with a look of utter contemp....jelous?

well my 1 cat dotty has the most amasin purr when she is aloud to sleep on the bed. she comes and finds my ear and starts purin in it