Pretend Sleep

[deird_lj]

Occasionally, my cat has to re-learn the idea that Mummy Does Not Get Up Until Mummy's Alarm Clock Goes Off.

The thing is, this isn't always true. Sometimes I wake up really early, and get up pre-alarm. Sometimes I just don't set my alarm at all.
So the poor dear gets confused.

And he wants company in the mornings. So he tries to get me up as early as possible.

...which I wouldn't mind, if it was five minutes or so before my alarm. But, like I said, he gets confused. And tries getting me up at 4am. (And then, continuously, every few minutes until I finally give in.)

So, re-teaching him this idea occasionally is rather essential.

This week is one of those weeks. Every morning, I've been waking up at 5:45, and having to pretend to be fast asleep even though Elf is jumping on my face.
And then my alarm clock goes off, and I go into a huge pantomime version of getting up, complete with massively loud yawns, big arm-stretches, and lots of loud talk about how I'm awake now!

One week of this, and he should be back to Get Mummy Up When Alarm Goes Off for at least another month...

Comments

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

I got my cat (mostly) out of that habit by booting him out of the bedroom and closing the door. Now he almost always waits until I'm obviously awake, sometimes even until I say, "Where's my kitty?" then boom, he's right there.

But it sounds like you have a handle on it!

[louise39.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Elf must watch you and think, "I could wake her up better than that noise-y thing".

[deird1]

Actually, he can! My alarm clock just has noise. He has noise and the ability to jump on and off my bed repeatedly to shake me awake...

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Hee! Cute little cats...who, you know, jump on you and stuff.

[next_to_normal]

LOL, at least you can train him. My parents' cat wakes my dad up at 4am by swatting everything on the nightstand onto the floor, and no amount of convincing will get her to stop.

Fortunately, my kitty is well-behaved, and doesn't wake me up at all anymore. :)

[deird1]

LOVE your icon!

My parents' cat wakes my dad up at 4am by swatting everything on the nightstand onto the floor, and no amount of convincing will get her to stop.

Oh dear. Thankfully, my cat is slightly more trainable...

[immer-am-lesen.livejournal.com]

you amuse me.

[deird1]

*grins*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

having to pretend to be fast asleep even though Elf is jumping on my face.

I so recognise that - with Shaka it is when he decides he needs someone to make a fuss of him at 2a.m.

[carlos-v-b.livejournal.com]

I love how he's trained you into thinking he's waking you up for your company, not for your food creation capabilities :p

[deird1]

Oh, no, actually, he's generally got food sitting right there, ready for him to eat. What he wants is for me to come out to the kitchen, sit there, and watch him eat...


I have a very odd cat.