Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: hollycat on August 29, 2014, 10:57:44 AM
-
The time, 0355. The place, my house. The bed shakes as the stampeeding elephants approach, only it's not elephants it's just Astrophe and Zoonie two 7 month old kitten making all that noise. My bed and me turns into a trampoline for the next 30 minutes as they chase each other round the flat. Using me as a spring board. ;D
Occasionally one of them will stop and nibble my nose, purr in my ear or bob me on the face. After an hour everything goes quiet, so I drag myself out of bed and go into the kitchen to find them lying on their feeding mats. So I feed them change water and clean trays then back to bed. ;D
-
Every two or three weeks I'm woken at 5.30am by the unmistakable sound of a cat retching on the bedroom carpet.
-
They dont lol
Sometimes Misa gets on bed around 0500 and snuggles against me and dozes off ;D
-
There are two approaches in our house, and both cats have different ones they prefer.
The Tinks announces his ariival int heb edroom in the wee small hours either by:
Wailey-wailey-wailey at the top of his voice (Hi Mum - am back!)
or
leaping up on to the bed, and throwing himself bodily against my legs whilst purring noisily. The action is designed to wake me up gently, so that I then participate in the game of belly rub (gently) and this is the only time Tinks feels confident enough to engage in "me time" - he's a bit of a shy bairn. :)
Moray on the other hand also has two tactics.
In the first, we usually hear a very quiet and muffled "meh" - which generally means he's carrying a mouse in his mouth, which might be dead - but then again might not. :shify: That generally involves either getting out of bed to dispose of a corpse :doh:, or alternatively remembering come daylight that you've shoved a live mouse in the bedside chest of drawers. Always an exciting start to the day that last one. ;)
His second method is to leap over OH's sleeping head (you can always rely on Mum to wake up first), and shove his way under the duvet, which is my invitation to heft my knees up so the duvet effectively makes a little "tent". He then proceeds to lick any uncovered skin gently and to treadle my stomach far less gently (think Thai massage with blades). :doh: Depending on my mood, I may make genuine sounds of pain and prod OH significantly so he gets some aggro too; alternatively, I just quietly wince and stroke me laddo's little paws until he slows pace and falls asleep.
Wouldnt swap either of them for the world. :Luv:
-
Mine dont anymore either!
I didn't mind at all when they did, the things we put up with! :evillaugh:
-
Bonnie wakes me up about 3 times a night, not just in the morning.
Usually it's by walking over my head or face depending on which way I am laid.
Another way is to meow in my hear until I wake up.
I also wouldn't change a thing :evillaugh: :Luv2: :hug:
Mary
-
:rofl: these all sound so familiar!
Geoffrey is the main culprit, he miaows loudly and bats me round the face with his paw. If I ignore him, he bats me with his claws out, and if I roll over, he scrabbled at my hair. If it's cold he might want to get under the duvet in which case I wake up to my face being tickled by his whiskers as he shoves his face into mine :rofl:
Milly is much more of the I-will-look-spooked-as-I-run-through-the-house-at-4am brigade.
-
Ollie tends to leave me alone, and will get up whenever I decide to - if he is really hungry, he will just come up and stare at my face. Bless him.
My kitten, Loki, is still really learning the ropes of what to do. Some mornings he leaves me alone, other mornings he runs all over the top of me meowing at the top of his voice and sometimes he'll hit me in the face or sit on my head.
My last cat, Harvey, was terrible. He would be hitting me in the face from 5am onwards constantly.
-
A sharp claw inserted into my nostril is the usual method.
-
A sharp claw inserted into my nostril is the usual method.
That'll do it. Ouch ;D
-
With my old cats it just depended which one:
Chloe - my most recent Tuxedo '- meowooos at 3am in the morning to bring in a live mouse, at 4am to bring in another live mouse, at 5am to bring in yet another mouse, this one is dead which she leaves the tail and head on the bottom step of the stairs. Her other thing was to climb on top of the wardrobe and high dive onto my chest at 2am in the morning.
Splodge - my other Tuxedo who came before Chloe - she would literally sit on my face to watch out the window at the road outside. She also rattled our old sash windows to come in. She used my window like a cat flap with me as the butler.
We did have a Labrador that would pull the covers off us when Mum sent him to get us up for school.
-
I get the claw in nostril or sometimes my eye if I don't respond quickly enough. Usually it paw on the face tapping, then it paw with claws out tapping. Then digging the covers. Claw in the eye or nostril are the last resort. That's Buffy. >:(
Xander it's usually loud meowing and sometimes just treading and purring which is nice. They also like to run around like a couple of small elephants jumping off things and landing like a ton of bricks. :naughty:Which isn't good as we have people living below us.