Does your cat ever do things at night just to wake you up?

[Maraya1969]

When Prince Harry snuggles by me and purrs real loud I find it so cute and I've gone back to sleep and he sleeps too. But at times I will feel him prick my skin with his claws or sprawl across my face and I have to get up. I give him more food and go back to bed if I can.

Last night was different though and I can't figure out how the little bugger did it. I have long hair and he lay-ed it so it was pulling and hurting me. I moved all my hair to the other side. Then the same feeling came to me on the other side. And then it repeated a few times until I got up and realized his dish was not topped off with cat food.

Did this little thing figure out how to pull my hair? I think he did. I always try to remember to fill the food bowel up to the top before I go to bed but if I ever forget again and feel the pulling of my hair in the middle of the night I will get right up and fill his dish up.

And here is a picture of His Highness. I posted this before to show everyone how difficult it is for me to actually use my computer sometimes. (He is the cat)

[TreeHuggingLiberal]

1. We have one cat that is a licker.

She loves to wake you up in the middle of the night by licking whatever is outside of the covers....lips, forehead, and last night my shoulder blades. Hurts like hell when you're not expecting it. :evilgrin:

[begin_within]

2. One of my cats used to scratch my face lightly, to wake me up,

to tell me that it's time for her to go out. Usually about 3 a.m. My current cat just jumps on me and then off the bed, then if I don't wake up, he jumps back up and lands right on my stomach. This is also to tell me it's going-out time (4 a.m. for him).

[kimi]

3. I don't know if they consciously mean to wake me up

but all six of them will occasionally congregate on my bed, and since there are several who despise each other, it inevitably ends up in a squabble. Which inevitably ends up in my having to get up and escort the offended parties to their respective corners of the house.

It gets very exhausting, when it happens night after night after freakin night after freakin night after . . .

[Skittles]

4. I'm a night worker so they wake me up during the day

usually it's because they find something interesting, say, a bottlecap, and LOVE the way it sounds as they skitter it across the wood flooring and bounce it off walls :mad:

[emilyg]

5. Oh yes.

[meow2u3]

6. I have a huge cat

Max jumps on me when he's hungry, even at 5 in the morning. He then perches his big ass on me, and if I go to pet him, he runs in the opposite direction--towards the food dish. He won't stop this ritual until I get up to feed him.

[Captain Hilts]

16. Does Max zero in on your bladder?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

20. Elwood -- all 18 punds of him ---

would run into my room in the midle of the night and catapault himself off my full bladder, and then just as quickly disappear from the room. Just for sick kitteh grins and giggles.

He died around 6 years ago, but I still miss the furball daily. :cry:

[Maraya1969]

22. This might not be my business but have you gotten a new cat? I always

have animals in the house and though I've lost several over the years the others keep me going. I don't know what I would have done if I just had my first dog and then she died and I didn't have anyone else to take care of.

Actually when I brought her back from the vet in a box I put it outside on the porch for the night because I wanted the other animals to know she had died.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

28. I have seven. :D

I have always had cats -- sometimes as many as 8 at a time -- but each is so very unique and special that I lament the passing of each and every one of them.

I, too let my other guys know when one has passed on. With Elwood I sat him in my room on the dresser and talked with him, let the other guys visit, and then buried him the next day.

[Maraya1969]

29. Glad to hear that!

[meow2u3]

23. Yes he does!

No wonder I have to get up in the middle of the night to go. It's Max who does it :)

[Gormy Cuss]

24. That's a favorite way for kittehs to wake humans.

I think it's because once you're up, they figure that you'll over to the cat dish and give them more food.

[TZ]

7. all the time

Sophie loves to stick her claws into my scalp to get my attention. Smokie will purr loudly in my ear. Or sit on me..(she's a big kitty)

[Deep13]

8. Yes, when I feel the cat walking around the bed it makes we wake with a start...

...when I remember that I don't have a cat.

[Maraya1969]

19. Oh that was precious!

[rurallib]

9. one of ours will hunt at night and bite whatever moves under the covers

and then (same one) there is the cold nose in the back trick. She wants to play. At 2am.

[MiddleFingerMom]

26. BEDMOUSE!!! BEDMOUSE!!!

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That's probably my favorite game with cats (but I only played
it with cats smart enough to realize that it wasn't REALLY a
mouse that they could bite down on full-force).
.

[CreekDog]

10. I feed my cat right before bed as a way to keep him from waking me

it works.

my grandmother thought of this when he was her cat.

[TZ]

17. Yeah but your cat is weird.

I mean, you pilled him without a problem. Not right in the head...:P

[Demoiselle]

21. I do this too.

All six of them get their kibble before I hit the hay.
And they don't bother me.
Although around about 8 every morning Olga hops up and sits squarely on my bladder.
Fair enough, I have to get up anyway.

[Orsino]

11. My eighteen-year-old meows at us in the night.

Climbs up on the bed, and onto me or my wife, sounding off every few seconds. His voice is only a guttural sort of gasp, so it's not really as annoying as I make it sound. But when he wants to be petted, he wants to be petted.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Poor, old cat!

When they are that old, it makes it harder to be upset with them. My almost-16-year-old does that at all hours of the day. Only his voice is shrill. You'd think someone was killing him, but all he really wants is a lap-sit, or the bathroom faucet turned on for a drink. He has gotten very demanding in his old age.

[Richardo]

12. One of ours puts her nose about 3 microns from the inside of my upper arm....

...and just holds it there. Just close enough to be maddeningly tickling. Wakes me right up out of a sound sleep :grr:

[GoCubsGo]

14. Mine crawls under the warm blankets...

...and puts all four of her COLD feet on whatever bare flesh she can find on me, usually my arm. Brrrrr!!! I know she wants to warm her feet, but can't she do it somewhere where I'm clothed?

[peekaloo]

13. One knocks over the kitchen trash can which sits adjacent to the back door.

Never fails to awaken me with a fright(someone's breaking in).

Cathole! :mad:

[charlie and algernon]

18. Esther will hop on the bed and sit inches away from me, while purring loudly

if that doesn't work, she'll upgrade the attack to licking either my forehead or my arm.

Mind you she doesn't do this during weekdays, in fact, I'm usually up before her on weekdays. No no, she waits to do this on weekends when I insult her by *gasp!* sleeping in. :grr:

[MiddleFingerMom]

25. Years ago, when I was in the Army...

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...I was an easy and VERY light sleeper. I had a good-sized Siamese cat who
would slip in during the cold months and sleep on my upper chest (I slept on
my back during those days). She would do it so quietly and daintily that I
don't remember ever waking up.
.
Until... ... ... I actually woke up. She always slept the same way (with her
butt an inch or two from my mouth). I imagine she may have slept that way
because I didn't have sweet sweet tunabreath.
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But lemme tell ya... the morning breath I opened my eyes to every morning
was none-too-fresh, either.
.

[City of Mills]

27. My cat walks through the sliding door vertical blinds

Over and over, until I get sick of hearing the rustling of the blinds and roll out of bed...then he runs over to me and quickly runs over to his food bowl...which of course has some food in it, but not FRESH food.

[ceile]

30. Every single night, at least 3x a night

One cat likes to sleep under the covers, so she'll claw at them next to my shoulder until I lift the blankets for her. She'll do this every time I turn over- she has to sleep in my armpit. Weird thing is, this cat is my fiance's. She's a total bitch to me during the day, but come bedtime she's my best buddy and snuggles next to me under the covers....

[old mark]

31. If the bedroom door is closed she bangs it so it rattles. If open, she jumps on the bed and

walks on one or both of us so we will get up and feed her. Hes always has a bowl of dry food, but wants the "good stuff". This is usually between 4 and 5 AM, and can get very nasty depending on our mood. If you don't feed her, she will do it all again till you do. She also yowls constantly till her head is in the food bowl.
After she is finished, you won't see or hear her till late morning.

mark

[applegrove]

32. My cat will wake up and come to the head of the bed to cuddle with me. He purrs

loudly and it keeps me awake. Then he goes down to the foot of the bed to sleep. If he wakes up he'll repeat the whole process even it is only a few minutes later.

[erinlough]

33. If I don't wake up fast enough

She will go in the bathroom and flip the cupboard door so it bangs until I wake up. She had to go outside to go to the bathroom so I feel really bad when she has to do this. She is the best cat ever.

[hippywife]

34. Yes...

they bathe. We get all settled in, me, the husband, the two cats. Drifting off to sleep. Suddenly they both start to bathe hard enough to shake the bed. :eyes:

[Urban Prairie]

35. We have three cats

The biggest and hi-strung of them, Lenny, a huge black male cat doesn't bother us in bed, but he will whack me on the forehead with his front paw if I decide to take a snooze on the couch sometimes, when he wants to play or be petted. Our timid tortoise-shell female, Lenny's sister, Tasha will jump on the bed, sit and purr in my wife's face until she falls asleep. The smallest, most gentle and easygoing of the three, a male tuxedo called Sly, will only jump on the couch and lay on my stomach when I am awake.