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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / April 2005Wake up, you cretins
Nocturne has outdone herself. If Smokey wants food (and us getting up = food), he'll caterwaul and dance until we can no longer stand the annoyance he creates. Nox is more subtle. One of her favourite methods is tapping our shoulders with her paw, just as a human would tap the shoulder of another human to get attention. The first time she did this, DP snapped at me to stop poking him, and I replied with a slurred "whaddafuggaryatalkinbout." So we kept our eyes partly open, and saw Nox in action. Another Nox behaviour is to walk back and forth over us and behind our heads, rubbing against us and the head of the bed, sometimes the lamps, making noise. But the ultimate...the crowning wake up call...was when Nox got on the end table, used her cheek to tilt the lamp and *knocked it over, sending it crashing down on our heads.* DP yelped, I snapped right into the "emergency response" mode when adrenaline dumps into your system (usually reserved for in-flight emergencies, narrow misses on the road, etc) and Nox sat there looking pleased with herself. Do we have to risk getting woken up by falling lamps from now on?! --Fil > Nocturne has outdone herself. > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > --Fil Awww, what a sweetie Nox is <g>. Barnabus just loves to stick his nose on the side of my neck (nothing like a cold, wet nose, stuck into the warm spot on the neck). He will also touch noses with DH, that's just when he's tired of being alone with the other furbabies. Hopefully, Nox will forget (yeah, right, suuuure) about the lamp dumping thing. Then again, maybe that will be the "last attempt" kind of thing. Smokie likes to knock stuff over when I ignore her usual attempts to awaken one of us. Smokie Darling (Annie) <SNIP THE BREAKFAST STORY> > Do we have to risk getting woken up by falling lamps from now on?! > > --Fil LOL!!!!ROFLAMO!!! Sounds like an escalation in the breakfast demands!! My hoolikittens are a little more subtle these days. Used to be they'd just stand on me, rub their noses in my face & purr real loud. After a couple of 5 am bannings from the bedroom, they shifted tactics. Now, they wait untill I show the first signs of waking up... Then they both show up for a 'cuddle'... Muscat want's to get in under the blankets & Chablis wants to sit on my shoulder leaning her back into my face... O.K., mabey not so subtle. If I don't get up immediately afterf the morning cuddle session, they take up watch posts. Muscat directly above my head, on the headboard of the bed & Chablis on the bedside table, draped over the clock radio. As soon as I throw back the blankets to get up, they leap off their senty posts & sprint towards the food stash, meowing like they have'nt been fed in a week. *SIGH*, good thing they're cute.  SignatureMathew Butler to 2 kittens: Chablis & Muscat En Vino Veritas >Nocturne has outdone herself. > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >--Fil Probably. Mimi used to dump everything onto the floor. Little chochkas, pens, pencils, telephones, computers . . . Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com Oh, yes, the info-dump. Pens, pencils, floppy disks, the pencil cup, the lamp... over it goes, or over it THREATENS to go if I don't wake up and rescue it. Pan's a paper chewer, too. He could turn a novel into confetti while waiting for silly Meowmie to drag her bones out of bed for the morning feed. So on mornings when I don't have to get up for work, I get up ANYWAY, and feed my ravenous horde of little predators. THEN I go back to bed and catch an extra hour or two of sleep. It's really quite companionable. After I wake up but before I get up, the cats and I have a scritch and massage session on the bed. The sun comes into my bedroom in the mornings, and although I have the blinds shut, there are still stripes of sunlight on my bed and cats that are sure to be lying there. =o) Melissa > Nocturne has outdone herself. > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > --Fil Hey, whatever works! ;> Hugs, CatNipped Man, your subject line made me check to make sure I wasn't in rph+b! > Nocturne has outdone herself. > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > --Fil Give up reading in bed, and put the lamps on the floor. On their sides. It beats not sleeping with cats! > Man, your subject line made me check to make sure I wasn't > in rph+b! LOL! Yeah, me too! ;> Hugs, CatNipped > > Man, your subject line made me check to make sure I wasn't > > in rph+b! [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > CatNipped What's up with that? Trolls there? --Fil >> > Man, your subject line made me check to make sure I wasn't >> > in rph+b! [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > What's up with that? Trolls there? Lots, as in every other newsgroup I've ever read (you have no idea how lucky we are here*), but mostly they just get into bitter flame wars about: types of food (dry vs. canned, and Science Diet vs. Wellness), the indoor/outdoor debate (which was the one that got me into trouble ;>), declawing, and breeding. The language gets *VERY* nasty very quickly. And there are "cliques" there who tend to gang up on people they've decided they don't like. * When I told DH about trolls being reciped here he almost fell out of his chair laughing. "I can's imagine the shock a troll must feel when they don't see the usual 'Troll Alert', or 'Drop Dead', or other types of responses - no wonder they go away quickly." he replied. Hugs, CatNipped > --Fil > > What's up with that? Trolls there? > > Lots, as in every other newsgroup I've ever read (you have no idea how lucky > we are here*) Oh yes I do. Alt.toys.transformers anyone?? I moderate a message board about Transformers, so that any trolls get banned and we don't have to deal with them...so we get to have intelligent discussion. If people are bound and determined to cuss at each other, they can do it via email, off the board. --Fil decepticoncommand@hotmail.com (Enfilade) had some very interesting things to say about Re: Wake up, you cretins: >> > Man, your subject line made me check to make sure I wasn't >> > in rph+b! >> LOL! Yeah, me too! ;> >What's up with that? Trolls there? Total flamepit, IME (OK, so I didn't stay very long). Signature"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL Hee hee! Gotta love the morning wake up call ;-) Vino will stop at nothing to wake me up. Things he does/has done: Meow loudly into my ear Run claws through my hair Chew on electrical cords of my lamp or clock radio (this problem was solved by applying tabasco sauce to the cords) Tread around on my buckwheat husk pillow, making a terrible noise Batting the lampshade or chewing on it Knock things off the dresser or bedside table Ram his head into mine with such force that my head moves Meatloaf on full bladder Meatloaf on sore back Licking himself vigorously while leaning against my body, making the bed shake Inserting whiskers up nostrils Chasing greeblings in the bedroom, making me think he's got a cockroach I'm sure there are more but that's all I can think of for now. -- Britta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > Nocturne has outdone herself. > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > --Fil
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