pets as alarm clocks

[pastafreak]

This morning I woke up with my cat cleo wrapped around my head...her fluffy tail was curled around my left ear, and her head rested against my right cheek as she "paddled" my shoulder and rumbled "food"...lol This was definatly a wake-up call...almost like the moggy I had many years ago that would lick my ears to get me up. What strange or silly methods do your pets use to wake you in the morning?

[bigmamma]

Hello pastafreak , my dog doesn't wake me up unless she desperately wants out , very rarely. She just goes along with me and is a quiet dog anyway, bless her She sleeps in the front room ( probably on the lazyboy ) , and is not allowed in the bedrooms. :-)

[pastafreak]

Until 2.5 yrs ago I had a lovely old cross-breed(lab/gsd/collie/whippet-a real Heinz57-lol)...when she was very old-15-she would wander the house at night.If she really needed a pee she would just stand there in the dark next to the bed,wagging her tail....until something in your subconcious said "walkies!!....I would wake to see her poor old sightless eyes glowing in the dark.

[VillageVicar]

Like clockwork, my morning alarm is the clip clop clip clop of horses going down the lane for their day of leisure. I�ve always considered that the �first call.� Second call is what I initially originally thought was my heart, going into the convulsive fits of a heart attack. Thankfully, it has (so far) turned out to be our Jack Russell, Mr. Piddles. If I don�t respond quickly enough, I�m guaranteed to receive a rather aggressive lick to the eyelids, in Mr Piddles� determination to ensure I�m awake.

I just keep reminding myself how grateful I am that we don�t have a St Bernard!

His gift to mankind � our animals who adore us, regardless of who we are!

Fr Bill

[paddywak]

I've noticed that most of the posts are about cats which reminded me of one week end when we were stopping at my mothers, something woke me during the night and I opened my eyes to see one (it seemed huge) green eye about 1in from my face. I nearly s**t myself until I realised it was my Tiger my mums old one eyed tomcat but I never felt comfortable near that cat after that. By the way pastafreak its not just women in this thread

[pastafreak]

Thanks for the correction,paddywack...it is not always easy to tell by usernames. To everyone:have any of you read "Marley and Me"? ....This crazy Lab has more tricks than all of our pets combined! Lol

[wolf63]

Me is a girl too!

[babybombo]

My youngest cat licks my eyebrows to wake me up, and if this doesn't work she'll sit on my face.
When I was younger and didn't want to get up for school my mum would stand at the bottom of the stairs, holding our border collie's collar, then shout "go get her!" and he'd run up the stairs and hurl himself onto my stomach, completely winding me! This would be followe by alot of licking and growling at the same time!!

Yes pastafreak I have read Marley and Me, its great isn't it!
My favoutrite trick was him eating the pregnancy test, it had me in fits of laughter!!

[pastafreak]

Oh my-wolf and babybombo-you ladies were up late.....your little alarm clocks won't let you lie-in! I woke this am with only a tiny corner of the pillow to call mine-Cleo is getting greedy!