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?

[cheries]

You don't know how funny that is to me... my cat Dillon wakes me up at precisely 7.03 am every morning with a gentle paw on my eyelid!!!!!

[wolf63]

My little tom cat Frankie tries to eat my feet or any other part of me that is outwith the duvet. His sister, a curvaceous young lady, sits on me. Between the two of them I find that I am awake before 5am most mornings.

Furry alarm clocks! Bl00dy pests.

[wiggal]

But wolf, you wouldnt be without them would you!?
My Cefa (my youngest at 7 months!) walks me to bed everynight, then she cuddles me, then sleeps on my feet, and as soon as my alarm goes off, she walks up the bed, and cuddles up on my chest! Makes it soooooooo hard to get up everyday :( But she is so cuddley its adorable!

[jules77]

many years ago I had a dog that used to nudge the alarm clock when I tried to have a lie in on the weekend, she must have thought it was broken!

one of my girls now clouts me round the head with her paw if I press the snooze, there is just no chance of a lie in.........

[Kleiber]

Aw, you lot - you're as daft as I am!! I sleep with 3 of my 5 cats - Cleo curled up on my left-hand side, Cassie on my right and Monty actually in bed with me, head on my shoulder (I swear he's the re-incarnation of the lovely Mr. K). As soon as the cockerels start to crow in the morning (usually very early, damn things!!), the cats want to get up & go out!! What chance a lie in, even at weekends!!??

[pastafreak]

LOL! kleiber-my cat is Cleo also....and my daughter is Cassie.....no Monty about tho!

[HJT40]

I have two cats. When I go to bed one of them is asleep on my side of the bed, when I get in he moves to the end of the bed. When I start reading he head buts the book and purrs very loudly until I give him a fuss, he then goes out. The ickle one meows at me or outstide my door until I get up and give him his brekkie. If I just open the door for him to come in without his brekkie he raids my make up bag for brushes and then climbs under the duvet and pesters me until I get up!!

[bensmum]

Aren't they great!
My old cat, Flossie, just walks backwards and forwards over my head and if that doesn't work she gets right up by my ear and bellows at me!
She is absolutely determined and will not give in until I get up. When her sister, Minnie, was alive she never did this as Min used to sleep right next to my head and she and Flo didn't get on.
Cheries - I had a Dillon once and his favourite was to go out in the rain (he loved getting wet) and then coming up and getting under the duvet with me - lovely!

[888sally888]

Pickles (my dog) dances round the bedroom with any random socks in her mouth!!

[paddywak]

Max wakes me up with the sun, which is quite nice this time of year but not very good in the summer, believe me you can't argue with a GSD when he tells you it's time to get up

[leelapops]

I am so tickled by this thread! Last night I dozed over in the chair after work, around 10.30, and Jack, our dog, proceeded to put every toy he owns into my lap, waking me every 2 mins until I got up to walk him (scattering toys all over the floor, and a behemoth rawhide bone on my foot!)

In the morning he isn't so bad, but if he sees me stir he comes to sit on my head and tell me what a good boy he has been all night...

[tiny e.a]

Haha! I love all these! When I go back to stay at my parents house my old childhood cat, affectionately but a little embarassingly referred to as Starry-boy, comes and puts his face right up to mine, he can't mew very well because half of his throat is paralysed but he has a really rumbling purr, as soon as he starts it my eyes are open to be greeted by his face about an inch from mine staring right back at me! Gives me a bit of a shock when I haven't been back for a while!

[pastafreak]

I am absolutely <b.loving all of these posts! We have some very creative and persistant pets amongst us. But-am I wrong in assuming that the majority of posts are from female ABers? Surely some of the men have someequally funny furry friends...come on guys!!

[wolf63]

Frankie has been waking me up recently coming my hair with his paws and claws. It is really gentle, but no way you could sleep through it.

My last cat, George, would lick my eyelids or paw them. He would also purr loudly into my ear.

Merlin - Frankie's sister just sits and waits to see how her brother gets on. Then when I get up she starts meowing loudly. Then all three of us trip off to the loo for my morning visit.

Who needs kids?

Susan

[amonty1144]

My gsd, patrols the house all night, she checks every room in turn then gets back in her basket until it is time for the next patrol, about once an hour, all night.
At 7.20am that is it for sleeping, she pokes your head with a very cold, wet nose until you get up, the time never varies even at weekends.
The lab wouldn't get up if a bomb went off and often refuses to go out for a pee if she thinks it's too early.

[wolf63]

I went away on a training course once and left my dog with my mum. He was about 6 (he lived until he was 8) at the time. He was a bull-mastiff/GSD.

At about noon my mum phoned me to tell he that she thought he was dead. He hadn't been down from the spare bedroom for his morning pee or breakfast - she was afraid to go and check on him. I was a couple of hours away, so she bravely went up to check on him. He was lying on his back, legs in the air and snoring loudly. She had to prod him roughly to wake him up. He looked at her with bleary eyes, rolled over and went back to sleep.

He was a lousy alarm clock, but a great dog.

[tiggerblue10]

I usually wake up with Tigsy and Bluey either side of me. I feel like I've been mumified. Then when I'm awake and lying there Tigsy does a little purry chirp in my ear and walks across my head several times. I think this means "give me my breakfast now you lazy cow". Blue usually nudges her cold wet nose in my face and leaves a blanket of malting fur very near my mouth!!! Yuk.

They are very handy as foot warmers during the winter though. LOL

[Kleiber]

I've definately come to the conclusion that I'm not the only animal-mad nutter on here!! I had to smile at yours, Wolf, about your dog - my Elsa won't go out in the morning if K Jnr gets up first - she always waits for me to go & let her out!! If I'm away on business, my poor son ends up mopping up wee, because she won't go out with him. Strange things, animals, eh??

[pastafreak]

Many years ago,the cat that licked my ears would also (eeuuurrrgghhh)lick my armpits! There is nothing like sandy cats tongue on bare skin at 7am! There is also the sensation of paddling paws on bare skin...ouch!!!