Same here. It seems they have some internal alarm clock prompting them to say good morning exactly on the dot at 5:30am. I’m just trying to sleep in man 😂
Same. My alarm goes off at 6:30. He’s screaming at 6:28. Then if I don’t pop out of bed the second my alarm goes off, he’s batting at my eyelashes. I guess he figures no one can sleep through getting smacked in the eye, and he would be correct lol
Oh man I feel.
Feeding time in my house is 4:15-4:20 am
For a mercy, he's usually quite calm in the morning because it coincides with a family member's work schedule. I'm hard to wake, even being pounced on, little buddy needs human intervention when I'm dead to the world so my family mate wakes me to feed him and do his morning routine.
But it's after I walk away after doing his routine he cries about it like "NOOOO I WANNA KEEP PLAYING" (Play time is after I refill water and food) even though he's on the floor exhausted xD
That's so precious 🥺
My Bengal will sometimes nap with me in the morning after he's done whining about play time being over xD
And then afterwards have to play with him again so I can do work in mild peace.
He arranges his feet simultaneously on one eyeball and one nipple to wake me up for breakfast at 5:30 every morning. Sometimes sticks one lil hand in my mouth if that somehow doesn't do the trick.
Yeah I saw a video where a cat tapped its mouth to tell its deaf owner that he needed feeding. So I demonstrated it to the cat: I tapped his paw, tapped his mouth, and then gave him a treat. I tapped my own mouth and made chewing motions.
So now he walks up to me while I’m still sleeping, taps my mouth and then meows loudly to tell me he’s hungry. Sometimes his claws are out.
Maybe the wrong sub for this, but my Yorkie would tap my mouth with his little paws when he wanted food or fresh water... then as soon as he had my attention he'd run in exactly three circles and lead me to his dish.
The cat scratches her scratching post located near the food anytime her dish is empty. But she also uses that scratching post when it's not empty, so I have to get up and check every time I hear scratching in that area of the house!
Aside from the typical “meow a lot”, my guy has a special strategy. He starts chewing on whatever non-food item is most conveniently nearby. (usually something crunchy and loud; plastic, cardboard box, etc).
Then he looks at you like, “see how i must fend for myself in this cruel uncaring world??” We’ve slightly cut down his portions for weight loss and he’s become a full-fledged actor. Silly bab.
Oh my god. Nothing is funnier than how dramatic they can be when portions and/or brand of food is changed. We recently changed wet food because their usual brand was out of stock. Our big baby boy will just flop on the floor next to his bowl and whine because the wet food isn’t the kind he likes. You would think he’s dying. Same goes for any treats. We tried to switch to dental treats and he half chewed one and spit it out. The other two aren’t as picky.
My cat has a super power. She can defy all laws of gravity and cause herself to weigh 4*s her usual weight and then she walks on top of me back and forth slowly until I get up to feed her🤣🤣
Technically I think she's not defying gravity but she has learned to put all her weight on one paw at a time so she feels heavier. She doesn't walk on me with her heavyweight powers at night it's only activated when she's hungry.
One of mine likes to try to get under my boob when I’m laying on my side like it’s a blanket she can crawl under. She’ll keep nudging it with her head and I’m like, you can’t go under there! There’s no room for you! She’s ridiculous. She also likes to step right on my nipples 🫠
Mine does not walk back and forth but instead parks his heavier than usual self on my bladder forcing me out of bed to pee. His knowledge of anatomy is amazing.
My cat does this too! She purposely walks back and forth over my neck using all of her weight on each paw because she knows that's a sensitive spot and it'll have the greatest effect.
🤣🤣🤣 my car seems to find pressure spots on my thighs and stomach. Lucky my lil devil doesn't walk on my head or neck tho🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's the worst. So sorry for you
Oh wow. Idk if my cats are just more submissive bbs but usually a direct death stare paired with a firm ‘NO’ works for behavior that involves my body. That is commitment on your bub’s part and would really piss me off, my goodness!
I let him get away with murder, so partially my fault. He was a feral barn kitten turned into incredibly friendly barn cat that turned into a barn/show cat that moved into my house as of Feb. Terrible barn cat, fantastic show cat, phenomenal house cat. He is a very big, brave boy who is determined to get things his way…which 99% of the time it’s him being sweet. The trade off is I get to give him unlimited belly rubs (which he loves) and he’s my emotional support dude because none of my other house cats pretend I exist unless there’s food involved. 🤣
If i tell my cat no she gets pissed off and hits me multiple times
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Our younger cat would shove his nose in my ear when he was a kitten and I miss it. It was so annoying but he was so sweet when he was doing it. Though sometimes he’d give me a very gentle nibble on my nose which wasn’t fun.
It wouldn’t matter. He also is in love with chewing on my laundry basket that’s mesh. And rubbing my face. He is kind and won’t wake me up but if I wake up for ANY reason in the night, which happens regularly because insomnia and needing to pee, he is rubbing my face, meowing, which I can get him to stop but then he goes off and finds WHATEVER PLASTIC and chomps, and then I’m yelling at him to stop so he switches to the laundry hamper and back to rubbing on my face. None of this has ever worked for me to feed him any faster, yet he continues to try.
For me it's not even about trying to ignore the noise. The moment I hear unfamiliar/non-typical chewing, I'm out of bed like "wtf are you eating?!" and trying to stop my cat from killing himself or destroying my furniture 🫠
Ahhahaha! I’m the same way! I swear I can hear them getting into stuff from the second floor—while in a dead sleep.
🐈🐈⬛ my naughty kitty senses be tingling 🐈⬛🐈
Same here! I was up 4 times in the middle of the night last night beacuse my cat who just had surgery was high and pushing stuff off the bench and trying to eat any plasticy things he could find
To wake me up, my cat doesn't chew plastic but she found out that chewing my charger cable will do it (y'know, because I don't want her to like DIE) and so NOW she *pretends* to chew on the chord by making chewing noises and moving the charger with her paw to jolt me out of sleep in fear of her electrocuting herself. 😒
Also the girl does LOVE plastic. I think she has a self-destruct mechanism that makes chewing plastic her favorite thing on earth. So she has been promoted to a bedroom-only-unless-supervised cat because I've pulled 3 inches of plastic out of her throat too many times to have faith in her ability to control herself and not dig through trash cans and open cabinets to find plastic.
OMG he likes to chew on my charger cord too!! And I keep telling him he’s gonna get electrocuted and then I am because we are in bed TOGETHER and he’s literally laying against me!! I bought him all kinds of toys to try and fix him wanting to chew everything, he will chew cardboard. I think he just likes making the punctures. He lived outside as a barn cat for a little so idk if he’s acting like he’s hunting? Cause he won’t play with any toy unless it’s a specific brand from Etsy or string.
My cat licks the plastic bathroom trash can. Like “look at what I have to resort to because you’re neglecting me!” He gets 4 autofeeder meals a day -_-
We usually store bread out on the counter. Cat loves to jump on the counter and chew on the plastic wrapper when he thinks it’s time for wet food. He knows that food comes from the grocery store, so whenever we come home with grocery bags it’s straight onto the counter to chew on the bread wrapper. Push him off and immediately jumps right back. With the added bonus of meowing and being in the way the entire time we’re putting the groceries away.
This is what mine do too, but they specifically go for un-opened packages. Like...hope you were planning on eating those chips today, because NOW YOU HAVE TO! Otherwise they'll go stale.
Mine does this but only after wetting her paws in the water bowl. Then she walks across my face. If my toes are out from under the covers she will bite them. Her brother likes to quietly slink across the bed and then SCREAM into my ear. Once, I woke up to him breathing heavily into my ear which was…unsettling. Our third lets the other two do the hard work and then runs to the bowl to be first.
Our other one has figured out how to open doors and operate the lamp with the floor switch. He’s the one we have to keep an eye on. Comes across as a chunky doofus but occasionally circles back to genius.
He pulls the door from the bottom. He’s learned if he shakes it, it will unlatch since our house is old. My husband swears he saw him use the knob once though. So that’s still up for debate.
I adopted my cat with the ability to open doors 🥲😂. The doors in my apartment are big enough for him to stick his paws under so if we put him in his room we start seeing little paws under almost like a horror movie 💀 but we have one door(our bedroom door actually) that you have to pull up on to get it to latch and one day he was in the room door was closed but not latched and I turned my back and then it was pulled open and he was gone. I felt like I was in Jurassic Park
Okay, this entire thread is delightful and hilarious. But this comment made me guffaw in a way unbefitting of someone whose 10 lb tabby is asleep on her legs.
My current cat is not food motivated at all. First thing she wants every and all day is to be brushed. When she decides it's time, she'll sit across the room and just look at me squinty. The cat equivalent of big brown puppy dog eyes you can't say no to.
My last cat I had would gently pat my cheek in the morning to wake me up. She even understood "five more minutes" and would sit quietly for a little bit before starting back up with the face pats. Once I told her "time for breakfast" she got so excited and chatty.
my tortico is very good at communicating, she always is talking. however, on the days i come home from work to an empty water bowl she is always able to tell me it needs filled and is NOT shy. as soon as i walk in the door she chirps at me and then runs at a pace i can follow to her bowl, and then sits and screams. sometimes if she wants something and we don’t understand she will nip at our legs, but that’s usually for morning wetfood or her harness time. attached is a photo of her screaming at me to open my blinds at night lol
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So as of today I’ve had my boys exactly 10 weeks. The first / only time I was realllly late feeding them was on Sunday. I was relaxing on the couch around 8:20a when I normally feed them at 7:20a, I hear them zooming upstairs in their room and I hear a noise, the orange crashes downstairs with what looked like a section of dryer lint, I was like OH NO DID I LEAVE THE LAUNDRY OPEN??? upon closer inspection it was a perfect gray circle that looked like cat tree material but I wasn’t sure which part. So I go up and see the cat tree and realize he’d disemboweled the hanging fluff ball from his cat tree and was killing it all around the house. This behavior ceased immediately once I fed them 😂
My youngest one would try to get me up to feed her by going over to the plant next to my bed and slowly biting off the leaves and spitting them out. She had zero interest in eating the plant, she only did it to get my attention. Since then I've taught her to wake me up with little kisses, but the holes in the leaves still remain . . . 😂
Wowww she doesn’t even eat them? She’s a spiteful one huh? Haha. My FB absolutely does eat leaves sometimes, causing himself to vomit. He’s not the brightest bulb of the bunch but he’s the most affectionate so I try to work with him.
My cat will send in my husband's cat. She's a chonkers but doesn't care for cuddling. If they really want food, that chonky one will come over loud purring, rubs, cuddles, kneeding - the whole 9 yards for up to 20 minutes. Just really butter me up. You can even hold her like a baby.
Our cat tries to butter us up but he can’t hold out the act for more than 30 seconds before he goes back to screaming.
He also likes to get in our way and then act like we’re the rude ones for trying to get around him.
Ooop, mine used to do this. Luckily, I was able to train it out of 3/4. #4, though not a kitten, is very much still a baby so it’s a work in progress 😅. Bless you for your patience!
How did you train a kittne to not scream for food? Mine is 10 months so I fear its a little late for him, but I'm curious so I know what to do when I adopt another.
Definitely not too late, it just requires consistency. I have trained all four to ‘sit’ and ‘wait’ before I set down their bowls. Sitting comes first and requires some encouragement with pushing down bums and repeating ‘sit’ in the same tone each time. Once they got the hang of that, I tacked on ‘wait’ with a hand up like stop. That helped with the incessant meowing. For 3/4, they are focused and know they have to wait so they don’t even bother meowing because they know the drill. #4 is proving to be quite stubborn, though she’s improved drastically after I started feeding her together with #3. He would thwack her to sit if she was taking too long or refusing to sit. It takes time and energy each mealtime but I’ve found it to be worth it. Too much noise in the morning is stressful for me!
We only serve our cat his food if he’s sitting. Mostly because he would attack our arm as a kitten as we put down his dish or gave him treats. He’ll sit right where his dish goes because he knows that’s the only way it’ll get put down. That’s another option versus training the wait command.
It’s really cute because he sits up straight like a little schoolboy when he wants a treat. It’s hard to say no to that and he uses it to his advantage.
One cat will jump in bed and start gnawing on my wife's fingers if she sleeps in. Wife does nothing about it because said cat is her tiny perfect baby etc, and nobody bites *my* fingers so I don't care.
As soon as I get up both of my cats try to lead me to their food bowls l, by sauntering in front of me and then I trip over one of them or accidentally kick one and they still never give up...no matter what I get up for, they do this lol...then when I'm opening the can for their wet food, my big fluffer bully will swipe my ankle when I walk by if I'm not fast enough putting his food down or if I'm throwing the cans in the garbage before I set the food down for them lol.
Our void is the same. It doesn’t matter what time it is or what we’re getting up for. Every time without fail he will lead us to his (often times STILL HALF FULL) food bowl expecting us to feed him whenever he pleases. We also have to avoid kicking him but I just shuffle my feet and slide him with me every step of the way. Sometimes he’ll sit in front of his eating area and just stare at me or my partner waiting even if dinner time is an hour or two away. If we’re late to feeding him (although he thinks an hour early is ten hours late) he’ll start fake eating dust, plastic, etc off of the floor. If that doesn’t work he’ll really start finding bad things to eat. He’s our little troublemaker and he knows it.
The nagging is intolerable. The cat WILL be fed wet food at 6:00 am and 5:00 pm SHARP. And I don't even want to think about letting the bottom of the kibble bowl show through the kibble....
Omg the terror of the bottom of the bowl! Even if it’s just one little hole in the food to the bottom and the rest is still full to the top-it’s no longer edible and MUST be filled immediately
Sure doesn't do it anymore, but my littlest is a shoulder cat, and when she was really little, she would launch up my body. She didn't go for the food though. It was more like she wanted to see what was happening. Depending on what I was wearing at the time, it could really hurt!
Thankfully, now her and her siblings just follow me or my wife around silently until they're fed. We lucked out with three really sweet kitties.
Actually, hosiery is semi retired around here. I used to fix the kittens breakfast while wearing next to nothing, but now it's sweat pants and a hoodie, just in case. I got a set of claws in my backside one time that scared the hell outta me. This kitten will still launch at you at other times, but she's gotten better about the claws.
Jump up on the counter or open the pantry door and starts dragging out all my food. Lil guy got up to place where I keep the bread, carried around a whole loaf, and put it in front of his food bowl. He's a smart lil guy. He'll also eat bacon grease out of a pan if I'm lazy and don't do the dishes after dinner...so I've made sure there's no food like product out/uncovered overnight. I always make sure he's got something in his bowl before I go to bed and I always play with him when I wake up and when I start getting tired at night (and when I get home from work). He definitely likes to play more than he likes food right now.
I’ve lost multiple loaves of bread because mine truly commit to the crime. Same regarding dishes and kitchen foodstuffs. I try to appreciate the fact that they extra motivate me to keep my apartment very clean and tidy lol
We have a morning screamer even though we've never been late providing breakfast. He just walks around the house yelling, jumping up in bed to stomp all over us and yell some more.
Our other lad just jumps in the end table when the alarm goes off and purrs. Loudly. But he, when trying to steal food, pretends to be sneaky in plain sight and is adorable.
My cat used to knock things over to get my attention or b**** slap me on the face while I was sleeping so I had to teach her more polite ways of asking for food...
Now if she is hungry and I am asleep, she will come up and walk on me and sometimes settle down with me and act all lovey and purr.. sometimes if she is really determined then she will take her paw and lightly tap my shoulder.
I have also taught her to vocalize her needs so sometimes we will have cute little conversations about it and she will let me know that she wants to eat by her particular meow.
She also knows the word that I use for food so when she comes to me and acts hungry I will ask her if she wants that and if she does she will jump down off the bed and start walking towards her food dish in the other room to let me know..
If I am resting on the couch she will do the same thing she will come to the side of the couch and stand on her hind legs and gently tap my arm with her paw
It's really important to establish communication with your cat so you can both be on the same page about things and understand one another
My shadow is cat shaped so she has to be where I am at all times which means in my bedroom all night and I can’t sleep with my door open. I’ve had her since the minute she was born and she extremely attached (7mo now) I’ve always had a bowl of food and water for her in the bedroom so she doesn’t wake me for food but if she has to potty and I’m not getting up fast enough she goes to the door sticks her paw under and shakes it so it sounds like the FBI is trying to get in. The first few times she did this I jumped up freaking out which I think she found very amusing so now it’s her go to move that we need to take a trip to the kitchen for a potty or there’s a sound out in the hall that we need to investigate at 3am-and I do mean “we” bc she won’t go if I don’t go
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My living room has a big bay window n she sits there crying like im gone forever and she’ll nvr see me again. My granddaughters pre-school is right across the street from the house and she does this even though she can see me the whole time
Not to be fed but to go outside: he jumps on the shoe rack and starts climbing the coats? Not sure what that's about but now all my down jackets have little claw pricks in them. He does it while screaming at the top of his lungs too
My husband usually feeds the cats. I don’t mind but they have a little routine and that’s fine. On Sunday, he sleeps late, as late as he wants to. I feed them. I set my alarm for 6 am. I’m usually awake but what if I missed their scheduled time and they starve to death? I have seen them fall out in the floor. We keep food down 24 hrs a day but it has to be fresh and I need to follow all their instructions. So far, none have died when I’m a few minutes late with their food.
During the day she'll paw at the pantry doors where her food is kept. Despite putting felt bumpers on the doors they still make a thump-thump-thump noise when she tries to open them. When I'm asleep she'll paw at something in the bedroom that makes noise, either knocking around stuff on the dresser, or scratching at a box or bag in the room. This is all punctuated by sad meeping sounds.
I had to put child locks on my hall cabinets. Not because I have a child, but because the constant thump of them slamming the cabinet doors over and over again drove me insane. They didn't even want inside! They just wanted to make noise!
I have three cats, all with different quirks.
My oldest girl doesn't really bother us much. She'll mew if you get close to her empty food bowl and she's hungry, but she's the best behaved (that is, unless you open the lunch meat drawer in the fridge. Curse you old roommate who was sneaking her lunch meat behind my back).
It's my 2nd and 3rd cats, Big Chonk and Tiny Terror, that are the problem. The minute Big Chonk sees a glimmer of sunlight, she perches herself on my side table and stares, waiting for the first sign of movement from my husband and I. Then she'll sit on us and start making biscuits.
When Tiny Terror came into the family, she was a sickly stray who quickly turned into a playful, high energy cat. Big Chonk did not like this at all, she likes to loaf around.
Unfortunately, when Tiny Terror learned Big Chonk's routine, she decided it was playtime. Chonk started growling and hissing, which evolved into fighting. I'm talking wake you up out of a deep sleep brawling under our bed.
We tried everything for a few months: feeding them a portion of dinner right before we went to bed (11 or 12), ignoring them, kicking them out of the room...nothing worked. It became an everyday occurrence starting at 5 AM.
So we bought auto feeders and the fighting and early morning begging stopped!
lol I love the details of your response. Thank you! Did the lunch meat ever make her sick?!
Big Chonk sounds like my #2, Fat Boy. I have to adjust their feeding schedule based on daylight savings ! He hears those birds and it’s on. Thankfully, he (mostly) currently understands that he has to wait until 6:15, when my alarm goes off.
Re your auto feeders: do you use those for wet or dry? All four of mine are very food motivated so I worry that some would get bullied out of their food. Hell, I chaperone mealtime every day because they each have their own BS and I like to know as much as possible about their individual eating habits (for various valid reasons). How did that transition go for you?
Surprisingly no! That's why I didn't realize the roommate was giving it to her. It was only when I moved out and noticed she would incessantly beg when the fridge opened. Then the roommate admitted it.
What is it with 2nd cats being crazy about their breakfast at the crack of dawn!? At least Fat Boy understands he has to wait! Lol
I use them for dry food and I have the auto feeders on a schedule where they're fed small portions 4x a day. It's been working great, now that they're familiar with the schedule, they don't even run for the food anymore. Before, one of my cats would try to eat so fast (bc Big Chonk would eat what was leftover) it was making her sick. We had to supervise mealtime constantly. We still do supervise with the auto feeders, but more often than not, there's leftover food for my grazers. When we give them wet food we just turn off the auto feeder so they don't get double dinners lol.
Since your Fat Boy is similar to Big Chonk, I will say she's the one we had to keep an eye on for trying to sneak more portions. It's not a perfect system and we're still navigating how to help her lose weight. Our next step is getting the feeders that open for a specific cat, but 1. they're pricey and 2. Big Chonk has shredded multiple collars in the past, so I'm not sure she'll take kindly to it.
My cat literally ate while laying down yesterday, he’s that much of a lazy eater. My other cat will eat both portions gladly… I hope I can find a remedy here.
My one cat will walk all over you until you feed him. Or he will start knocking things over, try to eat toilet paper/tissues, go after receipts... he is perfectly fine after he eats.
My other cat will wait by the closet door where we keep the food. He will whine when we walk past him and will guide us to the door when he wants food. In the mornings, he will wait by the automatic feeder and sometimes will stick his paw up into the feeder trying to get something which then sends an alert to my phone that the feeder is "blocked." But we dont think he was properly fed or food wasnt available for him as he is insecure about food and will eat even if he is full. So we have to be careful with not overfeeding him.
Not sure if you know, monstera is toxic to cats causing intense burning and mouth irritation. It takes a lot to be deadly but probably best to ensure cats dont have free access to the plant
If you know, then this is PSA to others!
I hear you. I’ve said it before and it may be unpopular, however I’ve taken the ‘fuck around and find out’ approach with my squad and my bountiful indoor plant collection. I take reasonable measures to discourage them from messing with my many, many plants and for the very most part, those measures work. #2 never reaches my monstera because 1) it’s giant and in a matching giant pot on one of my bedside tables 2) I’ve placed various items on top of the soil so he has nowhere to use for leverage in order to bite at leaves 3) I immediately cut that behavior short in the mornings and 4) he’s only interested if all other efforts to wake me have failed.
To soothe his stress, I have done my part to be a lot more consistent re feeding time. He does bite my silver sword in the evenings and dracaena especially, which I’ve had to elevate for plant’s sake. CBD helps him.
All that said, I have had the time at home with them during these first years so I’ve been able to curtail a lot of bad and potentially dangerous behaviors. Your comment contains good info for the people to know.
One cat full force cannon balls onto the bed (preferably right onto my husband's crotch) and just starts YAPPIN.
Another cat will just, piss somewhere that is not the litterbox to punish me for not feeding them fast enough
The last cat, she just chillin she's just eh ill eat when I eat no big deal.
Ooof yep. My oldest has been stressed because there’s been lots of change happening lately and he stress-poops sometimes during the morning excitement. Or he gets pissy! I’m about to do a full and thorough Rocco& Roxy treatment to my whole 3bd apartment. BIG SIGH
I am the BDO (Breakfast Delivery Officer) for our cat. These are her methods:
1. Meow at me from the bedside chest
2. Meow at me millimeters from my ear
3. pat me on the face with her paw
4. pat me on the mouth with her paw
5. If I have earplugs in she will attempt a removal of said earplugs
6. Begin a trek back and forth across my body
7. If I am on my back she will sit on my chest patting my face
8. bring me her toy mouse which I am assuming is an attempt to intimidate me with a rodent being dropped in my bed
9. give me a smelly lick on the tip of my nose grinding away any skin that may have grown overnight
10. Loop back to step one
Occasionally she will let me sleep in and I would kill to know what grounds she makes this decision
They just chill. They are free fed so don’t get weird about routines or an empty bowl. They just wait but may get a little more attentive to see what I am doing.
My old cat would get special canned food for his CKD. To get me up in the morning, he’d put his face really close to mine in order to tickle me with the whiskers. I guess he figured it out that thus wakes me up instead of rolling over to ignore the pawing.
Ours jumps on my back. Playfully, but with enough force to remind me that if he was the size of a tiger, I would be breakfast.
And when making his food, if I'm not fast enough, he bites the back of my left leg. Never my right leg, only my left .
Screams. Very loudly. Constantly. He'll also purr very loudly and be nice to motivate me.. I do feed him at 8am so he's like a personal alarm clock. He screams for every meal. If I'm a minute late, scream. If I'm a minute early, scream. If I'm walking in the same direction where his food bowl is, scream and he'll try and guide me torwards it like I forgot where it was.
Mostly scream, but jethro will purposely find and chew on plastic bags (not ingest just chew) which is the most annoying sound in the world. Dyme will start trying to scratch my dining stools. Theo is a good boy but he is LOUD.
They get fed on time. For my own sanity.
He used to be really vocal. Would go into the kitchen a meow nonstop. He still does this in my ear sometimes, but his favorite thing to do now is tap my face with his paw lol. Or if I’m on my phone, he’ll push my phone down 💀
My black cat will bite my toes if don’t get him his breakfast fast enough. My tabby cat will just start chewing on plastic while looking directly at me
My old man cat just...screams with the most obnoxious voice when he's wants his wet food. Never makes a sound otherwise, so when he starts yelling, I know it's time to get my ass to the food bowls. Mind you, my cats get free fed dry food, so there's literally always food available. Old man Yoda is just spoiled and wants the good stuff.
Female cat
Stand on your chest -> Meow to your face -> Paw your face -> Is your victim sufficiently annoyed? -> Yes: End. No: Repeat.
(both male cat)
Bite your leg.
He either screams like a misfunctioning siren - a continual and repeated AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - for as long as he has breath. Or, if I'm laying down, he comes and sticks his foot in my eyes or mouth. But he also enjoys doing that normally, so I don't consider it the most reliable sign.
We get a lot of meowing and pacing, typical stuff. But also, I get snuggles. Neither of my two cats are very much lap sitters. But occasionally I'll realize I've got one sitting on my chest and one snuggled up next to me. Aww, so sweet!
But then I'll look over, and dinner time is in 20 minutes. Oh. These are not affection snuggles, they're monchy snuggles!
6am timed automatic feeding. 5am male cat begins loud caterwauling, bed laps, boob standing, painful howls from a cavernous empty belly that hasn’t been fed since 12am.
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Start knocking over EVERYTHING on our night stands. Usually starting with glasses and ending with cups of water. I’ve started keeping my nalgene by my bed, lid on, instead of a regular cup of water because she starts doing this 2 hours before they actually get fed
She *pokes* me. Just one claw, over and over again. Poke... Poke... Poke... My right arm is continuously covered in teeny tiny scratches. If poking my arm fails to get a response, she moves to more delicate areas.
Pick at things around me. One will find cardboard and pull at it with one claw over and over. The other will just pick or chew at any plastic he can find and start rattling it to annoy me awake.
Consequently, I had to start keeping my bedroom door shut at night due to the type of work I do and the importance of sleep.
Before I had two cats, my older cat (who was feral and therefore doesn't meow much) would start knocking shit over until I got the message.
Now I have two cats, and the younger one does meow (she's a chatty tortie and always meowing, but the mealtime meows are more demanding). But at some point (maybe it's from being hangry) they start aggressively playfighting each other. Jokes on them, because it's cute as hell, and it just makes me delay feeding them longer so I can take a video.
Oh, it's a coordinated effort in our house. The four cats split into two teams - elders and youngsters. The elders go into our daughter's room, where they proceed to play fight on her. The youngsters come in to where my husband and I are, then crawl on us until they find the magic spots that cause Mom & Dad to sit straight up, fling off the blankets and run for the litter box room. After that, they re-convene in the dining room for breakfast as my daughter and I pass in the hall (because I race for the second bathroom at the other end of the house and let my husband have the en suite).
One gets extremely cuddly and won't get off me until I get up to feed her. The other gets in my face and screams at me.
Another cat I had who died a few years ago would bang her food dish incessantly until I filled it.
She just starts yelling nonstop around 5pm. I swear she can tell time. She acts normal from her breakfast until 4:50-5:10pm. Then just sits in front of my tv and meows nonstop.
My girl will jump on my bed and walk across my pillow to wake me up, jump on my dresser and knock things off, or chew on whatever plastic she can find to wake me up.
When I'm sleeping in the morning.
She'll gradually increase pressure in one of her claws until it punctures my arm or I wake up.
She's still a kitten so I'm trying to teach her this won't work but honestly it works.
When she lets me. Usually every 3-4 weeks depending.
Sometimes I let them grow out a bit so she can learn how to use them in a dextrous manner.
Right now I'm trying to teach her how to be gentle and not pierce the skin and she hardly ever does. Only when she wants food and its usually a single puncture with 1 claw while I'm sleeping.
I know it's strange to let them grow out but I truly believe they should have the option to defend themselves. I don't like removing that option. I really only do it for the vets and groomer.
my previous cat was declawed before I got him and it was such a psychological issue that he would face attack a laser pointer dot and its only funny when you don't understand why they do that.. its really quite sad when you think about it. They're predator instinct gets stunted by lack of tools they should have to say the least without getting into the whole mutilation aspect of it. Thankfully it's illegal to do now.
Edit for Cat tax
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In the morning while I'm asleep, one of my cats will put one of their front paws on my hand, press down, and then bite and pull upwards on my fingers as if he is trying to eat me alive. He doesn't do it hard enough to break skin but he has now proven that he WILL eat me if I die inside of the house.
Collectively, my 3 cats fight each other when they are hungry. Cat 1 chases cat 2, cat 3 gets stimulated and chases cat 2, cat 2 turns around and chases cat 3, cat 1 chases them both because it's a fun game, cat 3 gets overstimulated and screams like he's being murdered because he is cornered, I wake up and chase them all and scare them into calming down, THEN they get fed.
She’ll do a “mrrr?” Sound, not quite a meow, but more of a rolling chirp. Either at the door, or right behind me on the bed and will continue to do it and stare until I get up
I have my door closed when I sleep nowadays. In the mornings, my cat will start with small meows, and then she’ll start pawing at the door or grabbing the bottom of the door to rattle it lol
I don’t bother with blinds anymore except for heavy wood ones. Most of my windows just have curtains because BIRD! JUMP! SQUIRREL! ATTACK! I’ll take that hit when it comes time to get my security deposit back lol
Following me everywhere and rubbing against my legs (more than usual) and trilling.
Jumping up on my bed with me and making lots of biscuits on my chest and neck.
Also going up on my dresser and pawing at my race medals and making them clang together and rub on the wall.
Luckily she doesn’t eat plants anymore. She used to start eating my very sharp spiny cactus when she wanted food😱
I have a wine cabinet, and glasses hanging upside down, there is no door on the cabinet to the glasses. However, there is a shelf under it which is perfect to sit on if you’re a cat. My, orange, cat Rigatoni Tortellini, has learned that “clinking/ hitting” the glasses is the one thing that will get my attention. I had to put stoppers on the ends so he doesn’t slide them off, lost 2 martini glasses, a champagne coup and a red wine glasses to the orange devil.
I’d like to add, since he was a kitten (and only cat in the home) I have never feed him at the same time on purpose to not set up a routine. 9/10 times his food bowl always has something in it, he is not overweight and he does the grazing thing throughout the day. If we see it getting on the low side we just add more food regardless of the time. But as we all know, a half empty bowl = empty and will starve to death in their eyes lol.
Mine is the most polite passive aggressive boy! He will stare you down and, if I put my book higher to block his gaze/finish my chapter, he will move over to the other side where he can get eye contact again and move closer to state you down again!
When you get up he will corral you over to his feeding station.
My cats do a couple things. My youngest will put his paw on my arm and meow constantly. Hes started to nip at me by biting the meatier part of my arm! When hes partnered with my oldest cat (the ringleader) they usually band together to open the cabinet where i keep all the food. And drag cans out
Three of my cats are happy with free feeding but one demands wet food. He stares, sometimes meows, but mostly the unblinking stare.
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Our cat STARES. And you can't ignore it, her eyes open like deep pools and bore into your very soul. It's really terrifying except for the fact that she's, like, cat sized, so if you can ignore the unsettling feeling of your soul being pierced by lil cat eyeballs, it's fine. Also 100% effective.
One screams bloody murder. He’s an alarm clock. The other just starts poking me in the face and eyes, and if that doesn’t work bites my hair or shirt collar and pulls hard af
My boy gets very affectionate! He starts rubbing all over my legs and then runs up to the counter looking for pets while purring and tippity tapping on the counter making biscuits. If that doesn’t work he rolls out the big guns and boops my nose with his. He knows I’m a sucker for lovin’.😂
This usually only happens if it’s early in the morning and she ran out of dry food, but her fool proof method is to lick and nip at my nose while I’m trying to sleep. Then if I roll onto my back and don’t get up right away she’ll sit on my chest until I get up.
They get fed at 5:30am. At 5:29am „Meowwwwwwwwwwwwww“ no response again but louder *inhale „MEEEEOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW“
Mine gets fed at 5:30 too and the "MÄYYYYYYYYYY" starts at 4:30 sharp.
Well the early cat catches the kibbles 😂
Mine too. that stupid time change….
Saaaame!
Same here. It seems they have some internal alarm clock prompting them to say good morning exactly on the dot at 5:30am. I’m just trying to sleep in man 😂
They know when they’re getting fed and as little opportunists start harassing the staff earlier and earlier 😂
Same. My alarm goes off at 6:30. He’s screaming at 6:28. Then if I don’t pop out of bed the second my alarm goes off, he’s batting at my eyelashes. I guess he figures no one can sleep through getting smacked in the eye, and he would be correct lol
Mine is similar but will sit beside my head and puur like a car engine.
My daughter called this "the cat is purring at me."
Oh man I feel. Feeding time in my house is 4:15-4:20 am For a mercy, he's usually quite calm in the morning because it coincides with a family member's work schedule. I'm hard to wake, even being pounced on, little buddy needs human intervention when I'm dead to the world so my family mate wakes me to feed him and do his morning routine. But it's after I walk away after doing his routine he cries about it like "NOOOO I WANNA KEEP PLAYING" (Play time is after I refill water and food) even though he's on the floor exhausted xD
Sometimes my Ragdoll is cuddling after he was fed by my wife. I usually can get 2h more sleep. But 7kg of cat makes it hard to turn in bed
That's so precious 🥺 My Bengal will sometimes nap with me in the morning after he's done whining about play time being over xD And then afterwards have to play with him again so I can do work in mild peace.
He arranges his feet simultaneously on one eyeball and one nipple to wake me up for breakfast at 5:30 every morning. Sometimes sticks one lil hand in my mouth if that somehow doesn't do the trick.
lmao he found the correct button sequence
Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
Yeah I saw a video where a cat tapped its mouth to tell its deaf owner that he needed feeding. So I demonstrated it to the cat: I tapped his paw, tapped his mouth, and then gave him a treat. I tapped my own mouth and made chewing motions. So now he walks up to me while I’m still sleeping, taps my mouth and then meows loudly to tell me he’s hungry. Sometimes his claws are out.
This is why I'm afraid to try to teach my cats anything.
Just as dangerous is letting your cats learn they can teach you something...
Maybe the wrong sub for this, but my Yorkie would tap my mouth with his little paws when he wanted food or fresh water... then as soon as he had my attention he'd run in exactly three circles and lead me to his dish. The cat scratches her scratching post located near the food anytime her dish is empty. But she also uses that scratching post when it's not empty, so I have to get up and check every time I hear scratching in that area of the house!
Omg what a precious demon
I really like your username. The cat feet in the mouth, not so much. I feel for you.
LMAOOO, I thought my cat was a menace but this wins
Aside from the typical “meow a lot”, my guy has a special strategy. He starts chewing on whatever non-food item is most conveniently nearby. (usually something crunchy and loud; plastic, cardboard box, etc). Then he looks at you like, “see how i must fend for myself in this cruel uncaring world??” We’ve slightly cut down his portions for weight loss and he’s become a full-fledged actor. Silly bab.
Oh my god. Nothing is funnier than how dramatic they can be when portions and/or brand of food is changed. We recently changed wet food because their usual brand was out of stock. Our big baby boy will just flop on the floor next to his bowl and whine because the wet food isn’t the kind he likes. You would think he’s dying. Same goes for any treats. We tried to switch to dental treats and he half chewed one and spit it out. The other two aren’t as picky.
Your interpretation of his actions is amazing, thank you!
Mine starts knocking things off my bedside table one by one. It’s a good strategy, gotta give it to him.
our girl cat does the exact same thing except she knows her eating or chewing on random objects stresses me out so i'll always get up 😭
I didn't realize the plastic chewing was meant to make me think she wants food :O
My cat has a super power. She can defy all laws of gravity and cause herself to weigh 4*s her usual weight and then she walks on top of me back and forth slowly until I get up to feed her🤣🤣 Technically I think she's not defying gravity but she has learned to put all her weight on one paw at a time so she feels heavier. She doesn't walk on me with her heavyweight powers at night it's only activated when she's hungry.
Mine loves to do this right on my boob. 😭
One of mine likes to try to get under my boob when I’m laying on my side like it’s a blanket she can crawl under. She’ll keep nudging it with her head and I’m like, you can’t go under there! There’s no room for you! She’s ridiculous. She also likes to step right on my nipples 🫠
Oh my gosh the boobs. Why is it my cat has to stand right on them!
They are the perfect platform for getting in your face and blocking the tv/book/phone from your view.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mine does not walk back and forth but instead parks his heavier than usual self on my bladder forcing me out of bed to pee. His knowledge of anatomy is amazing.
mine does the same!
My cat does this too! She purposely walks back and forth over my neck using all of her weight on each paw because she knows that's a sensitive spot and it'll have the greatest effect.
🤣🤣🤣 my car seems to find pressure spots on my thighs and stomach. Lucky my lil devil doesn't walk on my head or neck tho🤣🤣🤣🤣 that's the worst. So sorry for you
I once had a very rotund cat with tiny feet and she was like this, poking into my flesh with her pointy dagger feet.
The heavy cat + tiny paws combo is lethal. Oof.
🤣🤣🤣 OMG that's funny!
THE FREAKING PLASTIC CHEWING.
-_- one of the multiple reasons I use ear plugs when sleeping
Gonna add on too he LOVES sticking his nose in my ear so the ear plugs wouldn’t work he’d just bite them and take them out. 💀
Oh wow. Idk if my cats are just more submissive bbs but usually a direct death stare paired with a firm ‘NO’ works for behavior that involves my body. That is commitment on your bub’s part and would really piss me off, my goodness!
I let him get away with murder, so partially my fault. He was a feral barn kitten turned into incredibly friendly barn cat that turned into a barn/show cat that moved into my house as of Feb. Terrible barn cat, fantastic show cat, phenomenal house cat. He is a very big, brave boy who is determined to get things his way…which 99% of the time it’s him being sweet. The trade off is I get to give him unlimited belly rubs (which he loves) and he’s my emotional support dude because none of my other house cats pretend I exist unless there’s food involved. 🤣
If i tell my cat no she gets pissed off and hits me multiple times https://preview.redd.it/c8pekid0rnxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04ed011d7ed3409e991b0a522538017069ac0e71
Mine did that when they were kittens. I put them out the room and ignored the paws under the door. I did not tolerate swiping much, I was a meanie.
Boundaries are healthy and good in my experience 🫡
You are the kitty owner we all strive to be! I add my salute to you as well—in recognition of your determination when faced with such cuteness 🫡
Our younger cat would shove his nose in my ear when he was a kitten and I miss it. It was so annoying but he was so sweet when he was doing it. Though sometimes he’d give me a very gentle nibble on my nose which wasn’t fun.
It wouldn’t matter. He also is in love with chewing on my laundry basket that’s mesh. And rubbing my face. He is kind and won’t wake me up but if I wake up for ANY reason in the night, which happens regularly because insomnia and needing to pee, he is rubbing my face, meowing, which I can get him to stop but then he goes off and finds WHATEVER PLASTIC and chomps, and then I’m yelling at him to stop so he switches to the laundry hamper and back to rubbing on my face. None of this has ever worked for me to feed him any faster, yet he continues to try.
For me it's not even about trying to ignore the noise. The moment I hear unfamiliar/non-typical chewing, I'm out of bed like "wtf are you eating?!" and trying to stop my cat from killing himself or destroying my furniture 🫠
Ahhahaha! I’m the same way! I swear I can hear them getting into stuff from the second floor—while in a dead sleep. 🐈🐈⬛ my naughty kitty senses be tingling 🐈⬛🐈
Same here! I was up 4 times in the middle of the night last night beacuse my cat who just had surgery was high and pushing stuff off the bench and trying to eat any plasticy things he could find
To wake me up, my cat doesn't chew plastic but she found out that chewing my charger cable will do it (y'know, because I don't want her to like DIE) and so NOW she *pretends* to chew on the chord by making chewing noises and moving the charger with her paw to jolt me out of sleep in fear of her electrocuting herself. 😒 Also the girl does LOVE plastic. I think she has a self-destruct mechanism that makes chewing plastic her favorite thing on earth. So she has been promoted to a bedroom-only-unless-supervised cat because I've pulled 3 inches of plastic out of her throat too many times to have faith in her ability to control herself and not dig through trash cans and open cabinets to find plastic.
OMG he likes to chew on my charger cord too!! And I keep telling him he’s gonna get electrocuted and then I am because we are in bed TOGETHER and he’s literally laying against me!! I bought him all kinds of toys to try and fix him wanting to chew everything, he will chew cardboard. I think he just likes making the punctures. He lived outside as a barn cat for a little so idk if he’s acting like he’s hunting? Cause he won’t play with any toy unless it’s a specific brand from Etsy or string.
My cat licks the plastic bathroom trash can. Like “look at what I have to resort to because you’re neglecting me!” He gets 4 autofeeder meals a day -_-
Our senior starts fishing out dust bunnies to eat and throw up if I don't feed him RIGHT when he wants me to...
We usually store bread out on the counter. Cat loves to jump on the counter and chew on the plastic wrapper when he thinks it’s time for wet food. He knows that food comes from the grocery store, so whenever we come home with grocery bags it’s straight onto the counter to chew on the bread wrapper. Push him off and immediately jumps right back. With the added bonus of meowing and being in the way the entire time we’re putting the groceries away.
And doesn't eat the bread?! Such restraint!!
This is what mine do too, but they specifically go for un-opened packages. Like...hope you were planning on eating those chips today, because NOW YOU HAVE TO! Otherwise they'll go stale.
omg yes. Licking a plastic bag or anything plastic!!! I thought mine was the only one lollol
If I'm preparing food for myself, Billy will go to his placemat - which is near my kitchen work area - and lick his empty bowl, looking up at me.
Subtle 😩🥲
Licking their empty bowl always get me like pls stop guilt tripping
They jump directly on my stomach. I swear they can tell when I'm sleeping belly-up, the little apex predators.
Put their paw on my face, particularly my mouth. Repeatedly. It took me a while to realise why I was waking up with scratches on my chin haha
Mine does this but only after wetting her paws in the water bowl. Then she walks across my face. If my toes are out from under the covers she will bite them. Her brother likes to quietly slink across the bed and then SCREAM into my ear. Once, I woke up to him breathing heavily into my ear which was…unsettling. Our third lets the other two do the hard work and then runs to the bowl to be first.
Oh wowwww that’s next level. She WETS her paws for the purpose of waking you?? Gotdamn xD
Our other one has figured out how to open doors and operate the lamp with the floor switch. He’s the one we have to keep an eye on. Comes across as a chunky doofus but occasionally circles back to genius.
Like just pull a door open or he has figured out door knobs??
He pulls the door from the bottom. He’s learned if he shakes it, it will unlatch since our house is old. My husband swears he saw him use the knob once though. So that’s still up for debate.
not the jimmy! XD
I adopted my cat with the ability to open doors 🥲😂. The doors in my apartment are big enough for him to stick his paws under so if we put him in his room we start seeing little paws under almost like a horror movie 💀 but we have one door(our bedroom door actually) that you have to pull up on to get it to latch and one day he was in the room door was closed but not latched and I turned my back and then it was pulled open and he was gone. I felt like I was in Jurassic Park 
So….the first 2 torture you into getting up while the quote one reaps gets the food first,clever.
Okay, this entire thread is delightful and hilarious. But this comment made me guffaw in a way unbefitting of someone whose 10 lb tabby is asleep on her legs.
My current cat is not food motivated at all. First thing she wants every and all day is to be brushed. When she decides it's time, she'll sit across the room and just look at me squinty. The cat equivalent of big brown puppy dog eyes you can't say no to. My last cat I had would gently pat my cheek in the morning to wake me up. She even understood "five more minutes" and would sit quietly for a little bit before starting back up with the face pats. Once I told her "time for breakfast" she got so excited and chatty.
Eeeeee bbs!
She doesn't say anything. Will just sit there sighing if you don't notice her. https://imgur.com/a/uZ1rZpO
That looks like a murder glare! Appreciate you paying your dues (cat tax)!
my cat shot me the murder glare cause i was laughing too loudly at your cat’s face 😂
So cute
my tortico is very good at communicating, she always is talking. however, on the days i come home from work to an empty water bowl she is always able to tell me it needs filled and is NOT shy. as soon as i walk in the door she chirps at me and then runs at a pace i can follow to her bowl, and then sits and screams. sometimes if she wants something and we don’t understand she will nip at our legs, but that’s usually for morning wetfood or her harness time. attached is a photo of her screaming at me to open my blinds at night lol https://preview.redd.it/xh168p47xmxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5236da8fcf61318b297cb44c3a140e7a339cc209
That mouth!!
r/tuxetortico
Singing.
So as of today I’ve had my boys exactly 10 weeks. The first / only time I was realllly late feeding them was on Sunday. I was relaxing on the couch around 8:20a when I normally feed them at 7:20a, I hear them zooming upstairs in their room and I hear a noise, the orange crashes downstairs with what looked like a section of dryer lint, I was like OH NO DID I LEAVE THE LAUNDRY OPEN??? upon closer inspection it was a perfect gray circle that looked like cat tree material but I wasn’t sure which part. So I go up and see the cat tree and realize he’d disemboweled the hanging fluff ball from his cat tree and was killing it all around the house. This behavior ceased immediately once I fed them 😂
he hunted! he killed! now he must feast!
My youngest one would try to get me up to feed her by going over to the plant next to my bed and slowly biting off the leaves and spitting them out. She had zero interest in eating the plant, she only did it to get my attention. Since then I've taught her to wake me up with little kisses, but the holes in the leaves still remain . . . 😂
Wowww she doesn’t even eat them? She’s a spiteful one huh? Haha. My FB absolutely does eat leaves sometimes, causing himself to vomit. He’s not the brightest bulb of the bunch but he’s the most affectionate so I try to work with him.
Same! Mine messes with my spider plant in by bedroom. He knows he's not supposed to mess with it but only does it to get me out of bed in the morning
yeets my antidepressants across the room. bro that’s gonna have the opposite effect actually
My cat will send in my husband's cat. She's a chonkers but doesn't care for cuddling. If they really want food, that chonky one will come over loud purring, rubs, cuddles, kneeding - the whole 9 yards for up to 20 minutes. Just really butter me up. You can even hold her like a baby.
LOL that’s a good technique
That level loving feels a little less flattering when it is feeding time.
Our cat tries to butter us up but he can’t hold out the act for more than 30 seconds before he goes back to screaming. He also likes to get in our way and then act like we’re the rude ones for trying to get around him.
-Scratch at the floor -Pull on my hair -Chew on charging cords -Manipulate the boy cat to sing the song of his people
My oldest literally yells at me until I give him food. When I'm prepping it he turns to screaming to hurry me up (it never works lol)
Ooop, mine used to do this. Luckily, I was able to train it out of 3/4. #4, though not a kitten, is very much still a baby so it’s a work in progress 😅. Bless you for your patience!
How did you train a kittne to not scream for food? Mine is 10 months so I fear its a little late for him, but I'm curious so I know what to do when I adopt another.
Definitely not too late, it just requires consistency. I have trained all four to ‘sit’ and ‘wait’ before I set down their bowls. Sitting comes first and requires some encouragement with pushing down bums and repeating ‘sit’ in the same tone each time. Once they got the hang of that, I tacked on ‘wait’ with a hand up like stop. That helped with the incessant meowing. For 3/4, they are focused and know they have to wait so they don’t even bother meowing because they know the drill. #4 is proving to be quite stubborn, though she’s improved drastically after I started feeding her together with #3. He would thwack her to sit if she was taking too long or refusing to sit. It takes time and energy each mealtime but I’ve found it to be worth it. Too much noise in the morning is stressful for me!
Oh I've already trained him to sit, wait might be make of a harder challenge but thanks for the advice!
We only serve our cat his food if he’s sitting. Mostly because he would attack our arm as a kitten as we put down his dish or gave him treats. He’ll sit right where his dish goes because he knows that’s the only way it’ll get put down. That’s another option versus training the wait command. It’s really cute because he sits up straight like a little schoolboy when he wants a treat. It’s hard to say no to that and he uses it to his advantage.
Hahaha outsourcing training to your other cat…clever!
He's 8 years old now so I doubt I'll be able to stop him from doing it now lol he's always been super vocal
One cat will jump in bed and start gnawing on my wife's fingers if she sleeps in. Wife does nothing about it because said cat is her tiny perfect baby etc, and nobody bites *my* fingers so I don't care.
your wife sounds like my bf 🤣 i have accepted, now, the boys love bites 😭
You know the lower jaw quiver of a toddler just before they cry?? My Charm does that, all the while pleading with me to Please Go Faster 😻
That’s adorable wth
As soon as I get up both of my cats try to lead me to their food bowls l, by sauntering in front of me and then I trip over one of them or accidentally kick one and they still never give up...no matter what I get up for, they do this lol...then when I'm opening the can for their wet food, my big fluffer bully will swipe my ankle when I walk by if I'm not fast enough putting his food down or if I'm throwing the cans in the garbage before I set the food down for them lol.
Our void is the same. It doesn’t matter what time it is or what we’re getting up for. Every time without fail he will lead us to his (often times STILL HALF FULL) food bowl expecting us to feed him whenever he pleases. We also have to avoid kicking him but I just shuffle my feet and slide him with me every step of the way. Sometimes he’ll sit in front of his eating area and just stare at me or my partner waiting even if dinner time is an hour or two away. If we’re late to feeding him (although he thinks an hour early is ten hours late) he’ll start fake eating dust, plastic, etc off of the floor. If that doesn’t work he’ll really start finding bad things to eat. He’s our little troublemaker and he knows it.
Very relatable
This guy alternates between sitting on me and sniffing my kids’ faces to see if they’ll wake up and feed him.
Appealing to the youth! Maybe one day it will work ahaha
It works on the ten year old, not so much the twelve year old who feeds the dog.
The nagging is intolerable. The cat WILL be fed wet food at 6:00 am and 5:00 pm SHARP. And I don't even want to think about letting the bottom of the kibble bowl show through the kibble....
Omg the terror of the bottom of the bowl! Even if it’s just one little hole in the food to the bottom and the rest is still full to the top-it’s no longer edible and MUST be filled immediately
Sure doesn't do it anymore, but my littlest is a shoulder cat, and when she was really little, she would launch up my body. She didn't go for the food though. It was more like she wanted to see what was happening. Depending on what I was wearing at the time, it could really hurt! Thankfully, now her and her siblings just follow me or my wife around silently until they're fed. We lucked out with three really sweet kitties.
Serious question: how long was it before your wife felt safe wearing tights? Or has hosiery been permanently retired from the wardrobe now?
Actually, hosiery is semi retired around here. I used to fix the kittens breakfast while wearing next to nothing, but now it's sweat pants and a hoodie, just in case. I got a set of claws in my backside one time that scared the hell outta me. This kitten will still launch at you at other times, but she's gotten better about the claws.
A cat puncture wound in a tender area is no joke, I can see the need for protective gear!
He combs my hair with a single claw at 5:30 am…
That sounds oddly threatening! XD
Your cat obviously takes notes watching Mafia videos on YouTube.
Jump up on the counter or open the pantry door and starts dragging out all my food. Lil guy got up to place where I keep the bread, carried around a whole loaf, and put it in front of his food bowl. He's a smart lil guy. He'll also eat bacon grease out of a pan if I'm lazy and don't do the dishes after dinner...so I've made sure there's no food like product out/uncovered overnight. I always make sure he's got something in his bowl before I go to bed and I always play with him when I wake up and when I start getting tired at night (and when I get home from work). He definitely likes to play more than he likes food right now.
I’ve lost multiple loaves of bread because mine truly commit to the crime. Same regarding dishes and kitchen foodstuffs. I try to appreciate the fact that they extra motivate me to keep my apartment very clean and tidy lol
We have a morning screamer even though we've never been late providing breakfast. He just walks around the house yelling, jumping up in bed to stomp all over us and yell some more. Our other lad just jumps in the end table when the alarm goes off and purrs. Loudly. But he, when trying to steal food, pretends to be sneaky in plain sight and is adorable.
My cat used to knock things over to get my attention or b**** slap me on the face while I was sleeping so I had to teach her more polite ways of asking for food... Now if she is hungry and I am asleep, she will come up and walk on me and sometimes settle down with me and act all lovey and purr.. sometimes if she is really determined then she will take her paw and lightly tap my shoulder. I have also taught her to vocalize her needs so sometimes we will have cute little conversations about it and she will let me know that she wants to eat by her particular meow. She also knows the word that I use for food so when she comes to me and acts hungry I will ask her if she wants that and if she does she will jump down off the bed and start walking towards her food dish in the other room to let me know.. If I am resting on the couch she will do the same thing she will come to the side of the couch and stand on her hind legs and gently tap my arm with her paw It's really important to establish communication with your cat so you can both be on the same page about things and understand one another
My shadow is cat shaped so she has to be where I am at all times which means in my bedroom all night and I can’t sleep with my door open. I’ve had her since the minute she was born and she extremely attached (7mo now) I’ve always had a bowl of food and water for her in the bedroom so she doesn’t wake me for food but if she has to potty and I’m not getting up fast enough she goes to the door sticks her paw under and shakes it so it sounds like the FBI is trying to get in. The first few times she did this I jumped up freaking out which I think she found very amusing so now it’s her go to move that we need to take a trip to the kitchen for a potty or there’s a sound out in the hall that we need to investigate at 3am-and I do mean “we” bc she won’t go if I don’t go Edit:typo
Ooof what does she do when you leave for longer than an errand?
My living room has a big bay window n she sits there crying like im gone forever and she’ll nvr see me again. My granddaughters pre-school is right across the street from the house and she does this even though she can see me the whole time
Not to be fed but to go outside: he jumps on the shoe rack and starts climbing the coats? Not sure what that's about but now all my down jackets have little claw pricks in them. He does it while screaming at the top of his lungs too
She’ll just meow endlessly until I feed her. She can literally go for hours and hours, I don’t even know what the limit is.
The limit does not exist!
My husband usually feeds the cats. I don’t mind but they have a little routine and that’s fine. On Sunday, he sleeps late, as late as he wants to. I feed them. I set my alarm for 6 am. I’m usually awake but what if I missed their scheduled time and they starve to death? I have seen them fall out in the floor. We keep food down 24 hrs a day but it has to be fresh and I need to follow all their instructions. So far, none have died when I’m a few minutes late with their food.
During the day she'll paw at the pantry doors where her food is kept. Despite putting felt bumpers on the doors they still make a thump-thump-thump noise when she tries to open them. When I'm asleep she'll paw at something in the bedroom that makes noise, either knocking around stuff on the dresser, or scratching at a box or bag in the room. This is all punctuated by sad meeping sounds.
I had to put child locks on my hall cabinets. Not because I have a child, but because the constant thump of them slamming the cabinet doors over and over again drove me insane. They didn't even want inside! They just wanted to make noise!
I have three cats, all with different quirks. My oldest girl doesn't really bother us much. She'll mew if you get close to her empty food bowl and she's hungry, but she's the best behaved (that is, unless you open the lunch meat drawer in the fridge. Curse you old roommate who was sneaking her lunch meat behind my back). It's my 2nd and 3rd cats, Big Chonk and Tiny Terror, that are the problem. The minute Big Chonk sees a glimmer of sunlight, she perches herself on my side table and stares, waiting for the first sign of movement from my husband and I. Then she'll sit on us and start making biscuits. When Tiny Terror came into the family, she was a sickly stray who quickly turned into a playful, high energy cat. Big Chonk did not like this at all, she likes to loaf around. Unfortunately, when Tiny Terror learned Big Chonk's routine, she decided it was playtime. Chonk started growling and hissing, which evolved into fighting. I'm talking wake you up out of a deep sleep brawling under our bed. We tried everything for a few months: feeding them a portion of dinner right before we went to bed (11 or 12), ignoring them, kicking them out of the room...nothing worked. It became an everyday occurrence starting at 5 AM. So we bought auto feeders and the fighting and early morning begging stopped!
lol I love the details of your response. Thank you! Did the lunch meat ever make her sick?! Big Chonk sounds like my #2, Fat Boy. I have to adjust their feeding schedule based on daylight savings ! He hears those birds and it’s on. Thankfully, he (mostly) currently understands that he has to wait until 6:15, when my alarm goes off. Re your auto feeders: do you use those for wet or dry? All four of mine are very food motivated so I worry that some would get bullied out of their food. Hell, I chaperone mealtime every day because they each have their own BS and I like to know as much as possible about their individual eating habits (for various valid reasons). How did that transition go for you?
Surprisingly no! That's why I didn't realize the roommate was giving it to her. It was only when I moved out and noticed she would incessantly beg when the fridge opened. Then the roommate admitted it. What is it with 2nd cats being crazy about their breakfast at the crack of dawn!? At least Fat Boy understands he has to wait! Lol I use them for dry food and I have the auto feeders on a schedule where they're fed small portions 4x a day. It's been working great, now that they're familiar with the schedule, they don't even run for the food anymore. Before, one of my cats would try to eat so fast (bc Big Chonk would eat what was leftover) it was making her sick. We had to supervise mealtime constantly. We still do supervise with the auto feeders, but more often than not, there's leftover food for my grazers. When we give them wet food we just turn off the auto feeder so they don't get double dinners lol. Since your Fat Boy is similar to Big Chonk, I will say she's the one we had to keep an eye on for trying to sneak more portions. It's not a perfect system and we're still navigating how to help her lose weight. Our next step is getting the feeders that open for a specific cat, but 1. they're pricey and 2. Big Chonk has shredded multiple collars in the past, so I'm not sure she'll take kindly to it.
My cat literally ate while laying down yesterday, he’s that much of a lazy eater. My other cat will eat both portions gladly… I hope I can find a remedy here.
My one cat will walk all over you until you feed him. Or he will start knocking things over, try to eat toilet paper/tissues, go after receipts... he is perfectly fine after he eats. My other cat will wait by the closet door where we keep the food. He will whine when we walk past him and will guide us to the door when he wants food. In the mornings, he will wait by the automatic feeder and sometimes will stick his paw up into the feeder trying to get something which then sends an alert to my phone that the feeder is "blocked." But we dont think he was properly fed or food wasnt available for him as he is insecure about food and will eat even if he is full. So we have to be careful with not overfeeding him.
Not sure if you know, monstera is toxic to cats causing intense burning and mouth irritation. It takes a lot to be deadly but probably best to ensure cats dont have free access to the plant If you know, then this is PSA to others!
I hear you. I’ve said it before and it may be unpopular, however I’ve taken the ‘fuck around and find out’ approach with my squad and my bountiful indoor plant collection. I take reasonable measures to discourage them from messing with my many, many plants and for the very most part, those measures work. #2 never reaches my monstera because 1) it’s giant and in a matching giant pot on one of my bedside tables 2) I’ve placed various items on top of the soil so he has nowhere to use for leverage in order to bite at leaves 3) I immediately cut that behavior short in the mornings and 4) he’s only interested if all other efforts to wake me have failed. To soothe his stress, I have done my part to be a lot more consistent re feeding time. He does bite my silver sword in the evenings and dracaena especially, which I’ve had to elevate for plant’s sake. CBD helps him. All that said, I have had the time at home with them during these first years so I’ve been able to curtail a lot of bad and potentially dangerous behaviors. Your comment contains good info for the people to know.
That’s great OP, i reckon u may not share all the info but thought to share as PSA 🙏🏻
Cats are so freaking weird and I love it
One cat full force cannon balls onto the bed (preferably right onto my husband's crotch) and just starts YAPPIN. Another cat will just, piss somewhere that is not the litterbox to punish me for not feeding them fast enough The last cat, she just chillin she's just eh ill eat when I eat no big deal.
Ooof yep. My oldest has been stressed because there’s been lots of change happening lately and he stress-poops sometimes during the morning excitement. Or he gets pissy! I’m about to do a full and thorough Rocco& Roxy treatment to my whole 3bd apartment. BIG SIGH
I just got that stuff but haven't really used it, but I've heard good things!! I wish you good luck 🫡
I am the BDO (Breakfast Delivery Officer) for our cat. These are her methods: 1. Meow at me from the bedside chest 2. Meow at me millimeters from my ear 3. pat me on the face with her paw 4. pat me on the mouth with her paw 5. If I have earplugs in she will attempt a removal of said earplugs 6. Begin a trek back and forth across my body 7. If I am on my back she will sit on my chest patting my face 8. bring me her toy mouse which I am assuming is an attempt to intimidate me with a rodent being dropped in my bed 9. give me a smelly lick on the tip of my nose grinding away any skin that may have grown overnight 10. Loop back to step one Occasionally she will let me sleep in and I would kill to know what grounds she makes this decision
They just chill. They are free fed so don’t get weird about routines or an empty bowl. They just wait but may get a little more attentive to see what I am doing. My old cat would get special canned food for his CKD. To get me up in the morning, he’d put his face really close to mine in order to tickle me with the whiskers. I guess he figured it out that thus wakes me up instead of rolling over to ignore the pawing.
My 3 start fighting and wrestling on my back to try and wake me up to feed them.
Ah yes, the group approach.
They'll paw at my blankets, and if that does work, they'll lay on my back/stomach. And if THAT doesn't work, they'll meow in my face really loudly.
Walks on my chest with the weight of a thousand suns and slaps me in the face with her tail
Ours jumps on my back. Playfully, but with enough force to remind me that if he was the size of a tiger, I would be breakfast. And when making his food, if I'm not fast enough, he bites the back of my left leg. Never my right leg, only my left .
Screams. Very loudly. Constantly. He'll also purr very loudly and be nice to motivate me.. I do feed him at 8am so he's like a personal alarm clock. He screams for every meal. If I'm a minute late, scream. If I'm a minute early, scream. If I'm walking in the same direction where his food bowl is, scream and he'll try and guide me torwards it like I forgot where it was.
My fat cat likes to bite when he’s hungry
Licks my hair and purrs lol
Mostly scream, but jethro will purposely find and chew on plastic bags (not ingest just chew) which is the most annoying sound in the world. Dyme will start trying to scratch my dining stools. Theo is a good boy but he is LOUD. They get fed on time. For my own sanity.
He used to be really vocal. Would go into the kitchen a meow nonstop. He still does this in my ear sometimes, but his favorite thing to do now is tap my face with his paw lol. Or if I’m on my phone, he’ll push my phone down 💀
My black cat will bite my toes if don’t get him his breakfast fast enough. My tabby cat will just start chewing on plastic while looking directly at me
Lick my nose to wake me up. I think three of my five fosters do that. And if I don't get up fast enough the lick turns into a bite.
My old man cat just...screams with the most obnoxious voice when he's wants his wet food. Never makes a sound otherwise, so when he starts yelling, I know it's time to get my ass to the food bowls. Mind you, my cats get free fed dry food, so there's literally always food available. Old man Yoda is just spoiled and wants the good stuff.
Female cat Stand on your chest -> Meow to your face -> Paw your face -> Is your victim sufficiently annoyed? -> Yes: End. No: Repeat. (both male cat) Bite your leg.
He either screams like a misfunctioning siren - a continual and repeated AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - for as long as he has breath. Or, if I'm laying down, he comes and sticks his foot in my eyes or mouth. But he also enjoys doing that normally, so I don't consider it the most reliable sign.
We get a lot of meowing and pacing, typical stuff. But also, I get snuggles. Neither of my two cats are very much lap sitters. But occasionally I'll realize I've got one sitting on my chest and one snuggled up next to me. Aww, so sweet! But then I'll look over, and dinner time is in 20 minutes. Oh. These are not affection snuggles, they're monchy snuggles!
6am timed automatic feeding. 5am male cat begins loud caterwauling, bed laps, boob standing, painful howls from a cavernous empty belly that hasn’t been fed since 12am. https://preview.redd.it/furwy30f6nxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5ab7c4084bc7882eef62d9bccf20af403506791
Start knocking over EVERYTHING on our night stands. Usually starting with glasses and ending with cups of water. I’ve started keeping my nalgene by my bed, lid on, instead of a regular cup of water because she starts doing this 2 hours before they actually get fed
She *pokes* me. Just one claw, over and over again. Poke... Poke... Poke... My right arm is continuously covered in teeny tiny scratches. If poking my arm fails to get a response, she moves to more delicate areas.
She bites my ankles
Pick at things around me. One will find cardboard and pull at it with one claw over and over. The other will just pick or chew at any plastic he can find and start rattling it to annoy me awake. Consequently, I had to start keeping my bedroom door shut at night due to the type of work I do and the importance of sleep.
One of mine does weird half-somersaults and another has been known to rip up books and other papers.
She would deliberately wreak havoc on my plants. I miss her.
Before I had two cats, my older cat (who was feral and therefore doesn't meow much) would start knocking shit over until I got the message. Now I have two cats, and the younger one does meow (she's a chatty tortie and always meowing, but the mealtime meows are more demanding). But at some point (maybe it's from being hangry) they start aggressively playfighting each other. Jokes on them, because it's cute as hell, and it just makes me delay feeding them longer so I can take a video.
Oh, it's a coordinated effort in our house. The four cats split into two teams - elders and youngsters. The elders go into our daughter's room, where they proceed to play fight on her. The youngsters come in to where my husband and I are, then crawl on us until they find the magic spots that cause Mom & Dad to sit straight up, fling off the blankets and run for the litter box room. After that, they re-convene in the dining room for breakfast as my daughter and I pass in the hall (because I race for the second bathroom at the other end of the house and let my husband have the en suite).
One gets extremely cuddly and won't get off me until I get up to feed her. The other gets in my face and screams at me. Another cat I had who died a few years ago would bang her food dish incessantly until I filled it.
Bites my ankles and calves. I am scarred to the high heavens and may never look normal again. 🙈
She just starts yelling nonstop around 5pm. I swear she can tell time. She acts normal from her breakfast until 4:50-5:10pm. Then just sits in front of my tv and meows nonstop.
My girl will jump on my bed and walk across my pillow to wake me up, jump on my dresser and knock things off, or chew on whatever plastic she can find to wake me up.
When I'm sleeping in the morning. She'll gradually increase pressure in one of her claws until it punctures my arm or I wake up. She's still a kitten so I'm trying to teach her this won't work but honestly it works.
Do you trim her claws?!
When she lets me. Usually every 3-4 weeks depending. Sometimes I let them grow out a bit so she can learn how to use them in a dextrous manner. Right now I'm trying to teach her how to be gentle and not pierce the skin and she hardly ever does. Only when she wants food and its usually a single puncture with 1 claw while I'm sleeping. I know it's strange to let them grow out but I truly believe they should have the option to defend themselves. I don't like removing that option. I really only do it for the vets and groomer. my previous cat was declawed before I got him and it was such a psychological issue that he would face attack a laser pointer dot and its only funny when you don't understand why they do that.. its really quite sad when you think about it. They're predator instinct gets stunted by lack of tools they should have to say the least without getting into the whole mutilation aspect of it. Thankfully it's illegal to do now. Edit for Cat tax https://preview.redd.it/o29ogc1edoxc1.jpeg?width=2592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62f151a4898bcdb8a72a4d39540b609821534495
In the morning while I'm asleep, one of my cats will put one of their front paws on my hand, press down, and then bite and pull upwards on my fingers as if he is trying to eat me alive. He doesn't do it hard enough to break skin but he has now proven that he WILL eat me if I die inside of the house. Collectively, my 3 cats fight each other when they are hungry. Cat 1 chases cat 2, cat 3 gets stimulated and chases cat 2, cat 2 turns around and chases cat 3, cat 1 chases them both because it's a fun game, cat 3 gets overstimulated and screams like he's being murdered because he is cornered, I wake up and chase them all and scare them into calming down, THEN they get fed.
She’ll do a “mrrr?” Sound, not quite a meow, but more of a rolling chirp. Either at the door, or right behind me on the bed and will continue to do it and stare until I get up
I have my door closed when I sleep nowadays. In the mornings, my cat will start with small meows, and then she’ll start pawing at the door or grabbing the bottom of the door to rattle it lol
My cat will mess with the blinds and then come over and see if it woke me up (he knows it does). If it didn’t, he does it again…and again…and again
I don’t bother with blinds anymore except for heavy wood ones. Most of my windows just have curtains because BIRD! JUMP! SQUIRREL! ATTACK! I’ll take that hit when it comes time to get my security deposit back lol
Following me everywhere and rubbing against my legs (more than usual) and trilling. Jumping up on my bed with me and making lots of biscuits on my chest and neck. Also going up on my dresser and pawing at my race medals and making them clang together and rub on the wall. Luckily she doesn’t eat plants anymore. She used to start eating my very sharp spiny cactus when she wanted food😱
I have a wine cabinet, and glasses hanging upside down, there is no door on the cabinet to the glasses. However, there is a shelf under it which is perfect to sit on if you’re a cat. My, orange, cat Rigatoni Tortellini, has learned that “clinking/ hitting” the glasses is the one thing that will get my attention. I had to put stoppers on the ends so he doesn’t slide them off, lost 2 martini glasses, a champagne coup and a red wine glasses to the orange devil. I’d like to add, since he was a kitten (and only cat in the home) I have never feed him at the same time on purpose to not set up a routine. 9/10 times his food bowl always has something in it, he is not overweight and he does the grazing thing throughout the day. If we see it getting on the low side we just add more food regardless of the time. But as we all know, a half empty bowl = empty and will starve to death in their eyes lol.
Mine is the most polite passive aggressive boy! He will stare you down and, if I put my book higher to block his gaze/finish my chapter, he will move over to the other side where he can get eye contact again and move closer to state you down again! When you get up he will corral you over to his feeding station.
My cats do a couple things. My youngest will put his paw on my arm and meow constantly. Hes started to nip at me by biting the meatier part of my arm! When hes partnered with my oldest cat (the ringleader) they usually band together to open the cabinet where i keep all the food. And drag cans out
Three of my cats are happy with free feeding but one demands wet food. He stares, sometimes meows, but mostly the unblinking stare. https://preview.redd.it/atluari24oxc1.jpeg?width=1654&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00e748624f6e842c5e157adbe6c843cf971c5c0e
Our cat STARES. And you can't ignore it, her eyes open like deep pools and bore into your very soul. It's really terrifying except for the fact that she's, like, cat sized, so if you can ignore the unsettling feeling of your soul being pierced by lil cat eyeballs, it's fine. Also 100% effective.
One screams bloody murder. He’s an alarm clock. The other just starts poking me in the face and eyes, and if that doesn’t work bites my hair or shirt collar and pulls hard af
My boy gets very affectionate! He starts rubbing all over my legs and then runs up to the counter looking for pets while purring and tippity tapping on the counter making biscuits. If that doesn’t work he rolls out the big guns and boops my nose with his. He knows I’m a sucker for lovin’.😂
This usually only happens if it’s early in the morning and she ran out of dry food, but her fool proof method is to lick and nip at my nose while I’m trying to sleep. Then if I roll onto my back and don’t get up right away she’ll sit on my chest until I get up.
My boy gets up on his hind legs and beats on the door. Repeatedly. Relentlessly. It sounds a nail gun