You’re fucking up the routine!
no, but if I wait too long to feed my dogs then one of them will go puke on the rug and the other will climb on my chest and start making hoarking noises over my face
Dog people are special. I could never.
Yep. My cat is on a diet of half a cup a day. So for the two hours before I wake up, he has his say.
We used to leave out kibble and let our cats graze, but two of them are getting elderly and have weak teeth. My wife took pity on them and started supplementing their diet with wet food every morning.
I don’t think there’s anyone in the house who doesn’t regret that decision being made.
The reason for this is that on holidays and weekends when people allow themselves to sleep past their usual waking times they enter a lighter sleep called the Nessun Dormant phase characterised by unconscious singing like Pavarotti, which can unsettle pets.
Lmao
I’m currently babysitting my brother’s cat and the other morning she gently put her face in my ear and meowed, jolting me awake
I’ll get up at 9 and my cat stays in bed another 3 hours. Lazy lil shit.
Yeah. Whenever we try to sleep in past 5AM, one of our cats freaks out 😭
Simple trick.
Feed them at night.
Or get an auto feeder
You only feed your cats once a day?
We feed ours wet food twice daily and keep a dry kibble feeder bowl out 24/7.
Buuut, we do not feed them when we wake up. They get fed after the rest of the morning routine is done.
(We’ve inadvertently tested this - we had a friend stay with us and they started helping around the house by feeding the cats first thing after they woke up in the morning, which lead to the cats waking us up at 5 am for awhile. After we broke the wake up and feeding connection, they calmed down.)My boy lives by his own rules.
Refuses anything except dry food. When people advised me to get him to eat wet food for his renal health he refused it.
Vet said that eh’s going to do what he wants to.
Oof, I have a cat like this. Usually she’s not too bad, but if she gets agitated at all she’s a horror story. 17 years of this, too. Normally, it’s better to just tire the cat out with playtime during the day at a time more convenient for you. She wants attention, mostly. If cats didn’t have social needs they wouldn’t make good pets, and cats do have a strong need to socialize with their humans. Normally she’s good and only comes in at about 9, 9.30am when I usually want to get up. But sometimes she gets it into her head that we need to be up much earlier, usually if we’re having trouble sleeping and she notices we’re sort of awake. Or lately she wants the faceted crystal baubles in the window to throw off rainbows for her to attack, but it’s the wrong time and she doesn’t get it and thinks we activate it. She’ll take me to the stair window first thing when I get up, and put her paws up on the sill and complain and complain, but there’s aught I can do!
The contrast is that if I or my partner are feeling sick or depressed in the morning, she’s just the sweetest, kindest creature and will just snuggle and purr, and won’t care what time you finally get up. But if you’re healthy? Forget it. We say that she’s Momma to our Owen, for those of you who have seen Throw Momma From the Train.
No
Noise machine and fan on, cats not allowed in the bedroom. Simple as.
but then how are you going to cuddle the baby???
I’d like to report a hate crime
