My cat can tell time!!!

[PAMMELA]

Every single morning one of my cats, Licorice, comes in our bedroom, jumps on the bed and meows in my face until I wake and pet her. And every day I turn to look at my alarm clock, and it says 5:30 a.m.!! It's really rather bizarre! She is usually dead on at 5:30 although it will vary a minute or two now and then.

Anyone else's cat tell time? :D

[Robyn1007]

Oh, yeah, mine does the same thing. Unfortunately its usually around 4:50 since I get up about 5:15.

[DmOrtega]

Mine watches the clock and as soon as it shows 6:00, my cat starts trying to wake me up, quietly. I love sleeping with my cat, he is so polite.

[Gracie]

My cat wished me a Happy Birthday last week. :D Every night she sleeps in the crook of my knees and then when I get up she just stays there. But on my birthday, when I got up, she also got up, licked my nose, then went back to sleep!

She also said "Bless You" the other day when I sneezed. I am always sneezing and this time, I sneezed 3 times and she meowed. Just a small, here-I-am meow but it was funny timing! :D

Loren

[SheRa]

my jinx likes pulling that on weekends since i'm not up at my normal time and she wants me to get up and feed her. even if there's food left in her bowl from the day before...she just likes seeing me pour more into it every day.

[sneezles]

The donkeys bray every morning at 7:00am, the horses wait patiently in their stalls at 7am and again at 6:00pm and the cat can be found at the back door every morning (unless it's raining) at 6:30am!

The herd of cows will let DH know when it's range cube day...which is Tuesday! :)

[LakeMartinGal]

My dogs know 6 pm dinner, and they're never more than a couple of minutes off! The time switch from daylight savings and back gets them confused, though... :D

[hlao23]

My dog knows when it's bedtime for her...9:30. She gets a treat b/f we put her in the kitchen for the night. If we wait she whines and bothers us until we put her to bed.

[Wendy w]

Growing up, I used to have a dog who would wait in front of the window when she knew I was due home from school and then again when my mom came home from work. A lot of them seem to have a routine and an inner clock. It especially comes alive when meal time comes around.

[ErinM]

Last night when I got home from work I talked to my cousin for about an hour. This was a departure from our normal routine, in which I come home, let him out, play with him a bit, wind down with some internet, and then get into bed by 12:30. When I got off the phone at 12:30, he comes racing out of my room...he knew it was bedtime, but had not way of getting up on the bed. You could tell he was highly put out by this small deviation!

Then again, this is the same dog that has been known to spend THE ENTIRE DAY on my bed sleeping for no reason whatsoever. That dog has a bladder of IRON I tell you!

[armel]

Gigi knows when it is time to get up . . . but she has found that doesn't always mean I get up (LOL). So, she'll actually wait until i get up and go get her breakfast and bring it back into the bedroom and put it on the floor before she bothers to move. The little queenie. I refuse to actually serve it in bed, no matter how much she would prefer that.

[wallycat]

I just said the same thing to my DH this morning.
They know our routine to a fault!!
I wonder what will happen with daylight savings change :p

[PAMMELA]

I wouldn't really mind the wake up meow, except I don't have to get up until 6:00 a.m. and I most certainly don't want to get up at 5:30 onthe weekends!!

Oh and the weekends....first call - 5:30 a.m. If i'm not up again in about an hour, in she comes again and then it's every 45 minutes until I get up!! Drives me bananas!! :D

[FruitsAlive]

My four are the same way. The two cats don't wake us up anymore, but my dogs do. They wake me up at four o'clock every morning...way too early, but they've trained me. If one of us is up and the other asleep, they'll run upstairs at six and jump on the bed to wake up the other. On the weekends, it always reminds me of kids on Christmas morning...er...or the winter holiday of your choice.

[helios7]

Helios (cat) saved me one day last week when I'd forgotten to set my alarm. In came my furry alarm clock - 5:45, time to get up.

But on the weekends, if ignored, he will eventually go back to sleep. Morning nap and all! :)

[VictoriaL]

How nice to read all of these. I'm remembering our cat Dusty, who passed away last February just a couple of weeks shy of her 21st birthday. She had a bit of arthritis in her hips, but for several years would make her way up the steps to our bedroom around 6:30 every morning. She would come around to my side of the bed, take a deep breath, and let forth with a howl that should have been recorded on Halloween records. DH always slept through it, but for a while I would need to be peeled off of the ceiling. ;) Anyway, it worked. I would scoop her up, rub her face a bit, then take her back downstairs for a bowl of milk. She certainly had me trained.

I miss her. Morning howls and all! :(

[dreamer]

As it did for Victoria, this thread brings back such happy memories for me (no kitty now---but lots of sweet memories!)
I remember when I was a teenager that my cat used to come early in the morning to my upstairs bedroom and try to wake me up. I would usually pull the covers up and ignore him- at which point he'd go down and wake my mother. I don't think she appreciated my lazy teenage behavior. :rolleyes: However, she did think that the way he woke her was quite wonderful- he would simply gently place one paw on her cheek. (He was an extremely gentle, wonderful cat!) My mother wasn't a natural cat person, but this cat eventually won her over!
Thanks for starting the thread, Pammela!
-dreamer

[mbrogier]

My cats can tell time as well. We used to give them wet food only on Sundays. They knew which day Sunday was and could be found waiting in the kitchen for their breakfast. Even on weeks when Rob was on vacation and didn't go into work like usual they knew which day was Sunday.

Macavity will sometimes wake Rob up 5 minutes before Rob's alarm would go off. It's amazing to us that their internal clocks are that precise.

[dreamer]

When I told DH about this thread, he reminded me of the story I should've shared-
Our cat Ginger was hilarious in the morning, because although it wasn't the situation of her telling time and waking us, what she would do was wake up to DH's alarm.
That is, his alarm would go off, and she would sit up, and stretch, (looking just like a sleepy person getting up, like using an alarm was the most natural thing in the world for a kitty) and then hop off the bed as DH got up.

-dreamer

[sugarbaby]

My dog definitely can tell time when it comes to eating. I also learned this past weekend that he knows how to blow bubbles in his water dish. I was sitting at the kitchen table, and I heard this noise that sounded like bubble-blowing. I look over,and the blasted dog has his nose submerged in the water and is blowing out! I am so in love with this dog (sigh).

[raka1214]

Growing up my dear brother #2 had a cat that was just a tabby - showed up on our doorstep one morning. Anyway - my brothers shared a bed and DB#2, who was owned by the cat, slept closest to the wall. Well - this cat would jump over DB#1 and land, very gently, on DB#2. He would walk straight up DB#2's body and lay down on his chest and reach up with both paws and pat him in the face, very gently, until DB#2 woke up.

DH & I own a 9-yo Jack Russell Terrier and she sleeps with us. She crawls out from under the covers about 10 min. before the alarm goes off, crawls up to the top of our pillows, sticks her nose in DH's ear and blows. :D:D:D This is especially productive for her.

[Babs73]

If my cats can tell time, then they are sadistic, evil cats. The alarm goes off at 6:30am and at least a few times a week the female (Brie) plops herself down on top of me and demands attention at 5am. She does the kneading dough thing on my belly, (which really hurts since they are not declawed), purrs and is really cute and affectionate - but it's 5 friggin AM!!! Can't they wait until 6:30am??? Other times they wait patiently until the alarm goes off and they start their barrage of food meows (even though they usually have plenty in their bowls) :rolleyes:

[TLee4]

Then again, this is the same dog that has been known to spend THE ENTIRE DAY on my bed sleeping for no reason whatsoever. That dog has a bladder of IRON I tell you!

Erin, do I remember correctly that you have a Shih Tzu? Our Shih Tzu is like that too..I can't believe how long she can hold it! (Of course, she's also been known to look outside at the rain, decline going outside, and then promptly pee on the carpet. :mad: :rolleyes: )

Terri