Snooze button on my alarm clock...

DD265

I needn't have bought a daylight alarm clock after all; one of our cats has taken on the role of waker-up-in-chief. It's all good and well but he doesn't appear to have a snooze button. So 5.45am is OK during the week but it's a bit much at the weekends.

We (meaning OH) don't allow them in the bedroom but he'll sit outside the door and meow. He also paws at the door - no damage done. It's less hunger although we do feed them as soon as we get up, but more about attention I think.

Reading up on it, they should get used to the routine being different on weekends but at the moment it's very difficult to ignore him.

Does anybody else have a pet who gets them up in the morning? Has anybody successfully accustomed their pet to a 5-2 routine so that the weekends weren't quite so early?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Just consistently ignoring the door works. OH instigated the exile from the bedroom and now, I tend to find Idiot Cat sleeping on the bathmat when I get up, whenever that is.

I don't feed him or the other one when I get up, so they don't expect food as soon as a human opens their eyes, either, and quite often, whilst my first steps out of the bedroom end in the bathroom, I'm just as likely to go back to bed as I am to go downstairs.

So much so, the regulations get relaxed occasionally - they still don't attempt to wake us up.

Pollycat

DD265 wrote: »

I needn't have bought a daylight alarm clock after all; one of our cats has taken on the role of waker-up-in-chief. It's all good and well but he doesn't appear to have a snooze button. So 5.45am is OK during the week but it's a bit much at the weekends.

We (meaning OH) don't allow them in the bedroom but he'll sit outside the door and meow. He also paws at the door - no damage done. It's less hunger although we do feed them as soon as we get up, but more about attention I think.

Reading up on it, they should get used to the routine being different on weekends but at the moment it's very difficult to ignore him.

Does anybody else have a pet who gets them up in the morning? Has anybody successfully accustomed their pet to a 5-2 routine so that the weekends weren't quite so early?

My cat's wake-up time was governed by the seasons.
As soon as he heard the birds outside, he was off the bed and ready to go out.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Just consistently ignoring the door works. OH instigated the exile from the bedroom and now, I tend to find Idiot Cat sleeping on the bathmat when I get up, whenever that is.

When you've got a very big (the vets always commented on how big (not fat) he was) semi-feral cat who is determined to go out and stands on his hind legs battering at the door and howling, it's pretty hard to ignore.

helcat26

Lucky you!
Breadcat has decided since Jan that she is nocturnal. She quite happily slept through the night before.
I would not care if she did not want company!!
Scratch and rowwwwllll at 1am, 3am 4am I am now ignoring and shutting the bedroom door but the carpet is suffering.
Husband says prod her when she sleeps all day but that seems mean

balletshoes

my cat gets to sleep on my bed with the bedroom doors open until he wakes up at eeeeek o'clock and starts pawing my face or racing across the top of the pillows. Then he gets put out of the bedroom and the doors are closed on him until I'm ready to get up. Yes he still occasionally yowls and scratches the door but as long as I don't speak to him or move about a lot in bed he'll stop pretty quick and be found sitting outside the bedroom door when I eventually do stir for the day.

Deep_In_Debt

One of my cats sleeps under the duvet with me. She is used to my alarm going off at 6am during the week and she is up and wakes me 10 mins before the alarm goes off so no chance of over sleeping!

Weekends would be nice to have a lie in!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Pollycat wrote: »

My cat's wake-up time was governed by the seasons.
As soon as he heard the birds outside, he was off the bed and ready to go out.

When you've got a very big (the vets always commented on how big (not fat) he was) semi-feral cat who is determined to go out and stands on his hind legs battering at the door and howling, it's pretty hard to ignore.

They're not much different to children in that respect. If you go to them, it teaches them to howl even more.

:cool:

Pollycat

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

They're not much different to children in that respect. If you go to them, it teaches them to howl even more.

:cool:

Some children never learn.
My cat didn't.

He was seriously ill as a tiny kitten (5 weeks old) and it fritzed his brain.
He was mostly uncontrollable and at times didn't even recognise my OH, acting as though a stranger had come into the house.
Even the vet when treating him for cat flu and pneumonia as a not-far-from-death's-door (her words) kitten said 'this kitten has a side to him'.

I'm not unused to cats and their foibles having had cats for 40 years, at times as many as 4 at once.
Believe me (or don't :cool:), this cat was different.

fairy_lights

I have two feline alarm clocks and both seem to be faulty.
They make odd beeping noises which I though might be the batteries running out, but even if I charge them up with a portion of Applaws before bed the problem persists. Sometimes they even go off in the middle of the night and I can't seem to find a volume switch anywhere on them.
Do you think I could return them and exchange them for something quieter like a cornsnake or a bowl of petunias?

DD265

Glad it's not just us :rotfl:

They were better yesterday and today actually. It doesn't bother me on days when I'm up early for work anyway.

DD265

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

Can you keep the cats such that overnight there's 2 doors between them and your bed?

E.g. Shut in the kitchen so they can't even get to the bedroom door?

We could, but we have to do that during the day (they're house cats, and we have an external door but no porch) unless I work from home so I won't do it at night as well. They have plenty of room to run around downstairs it's just I prefer to give them as much space as possible as often as possible.