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Matt - 19 Jun 2004 21:25 GMT

Hi there,

I had a question about vocal cats. My cat (Burmese i believe) is really
vocal between 6-9am in the morning pretty much everyday. He just seems
to wander throughout my place meowing constantly without any real
purpose. I'll usually get up and see whats up and he's sitting in the
bathtub looking at me with those cute blinky cat eyes (almost like he's
say 'haha sucker, woke you up again').

I am just wondering if there is anything I can do to stop him from
crying constantly because its starting to effect my sleep.

any ideas or info would be great!

he's a healthy young cat (around 1 year) and always has food/water.

thanks.
matt

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m. L. Briggs - 19 Jun 2004 21:45 GMT

>Hi there,
>
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>thanks.
>mat

Cats are great alarm clocks. He either wants you to get up and take a
bath or he wants a drink of water. Did this start after the daylight
saving time change?mLB

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Laura R. - 19 Jun 2004 23:56 GMT

circa Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:25:01 -0400, in alt.cats, Matt
(mattquinn@sympatico.ca) said,

> Hi there,
>
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>
> he's a healthy young cat (around 1 year) and always has food/water.

Sounds to me like he wants you to get up to start the day when he
does. :-)

Laura

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M.C. Mullen - 20 Jun 2004 06:47 GMT

| Hi there,
|
| I had a question about vocal cats. My cat (Burmese i believe) is really
| vocal between 6-9am in the morning pretty much everyday. He just seems
| to wander throughout my place meowing constantly without any real
| purpose.

One of our cats does this, and it's a very sad complaining meow: "The
weather's bad, I'm all wet, nobody wants to play with me, meoow, I'm just so
miserable! And always the same old dry knibble!" I just call his name a few
times and leave him alone in order not to encourage it.

| I'll usually get up and see whats up and he's sitting in the
| bathtub looking at me with those cute blinky cat eyes (almost like he's
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
| thanks.
| matt

Our second cat though never meows except when she brings home a mouse. Then
she's really loud.
Would anybody know what that means? And she won't give me the mouse, she
eats it, so it can't really mean: Come and see!

Carola

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Laura R. - 20 Jun 2004 07:28 GMT

circa Sun, 20 Jun 2004 07:47:31 +0200, in alt.cats, M.C. Mullen
(mcmullen@freesurf.invalid.ch) said,

> Our second cat though never meows except when she brings home a mouse. Then
> she's really loud.
> Would anybody know what that means? And she won't give me the mouse, she
> eats it, so it can't really mean: Come and see!

Oh, but it can. :-)

From what I've read and observed, cats are a little confused about
what their people really are. On one hand, we're their mamacats and
they tend to maintain certain kitten behaviors with us, such as
purring in our presence (cats rarely purr for other cats once they've
reached adulthood).

On the other hand, cats look at us as really bad hunters because they
never see us bringing home a kill. So, they try to "teach" us to hunt
by bringing us their prey so that we can see what we're supposed to
be doing, just as they would when teaching kittens to hunt. The fact
that your cat won't give up the mouse and eats it herself is natural-
*she* caught it and she's gonna eat it. :-)

Laura

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Dik F. Liu - 20 Jun 2004 18:50 GMT

>I'll usually get up and see whats up and he's sitting in the
>bathtub looking at me with those cute blinky cat eyes (almost like he's
>say 'haha sucker, woke you up again').

Congratulations, you have just been trained by your cat to live by his
schedule. Cats are nortunal; so 6 am seems like a great time to roam about and
have a snack. If you don't want to be awakened, don't get up to tend to your
cat, or pet him, or feed him early in the morning. Instead, try feeding him in
the late morning and see if that might reset his internal time clock.

Dik

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M.C. Mullen - 21 Jun 2004 15:34 GMT

| >I'll usually get up and see whats up and he's sitting in the
| >bathtub looking at me with those cute blinky cat eyes (almost like he's
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|
| Dik

I made the mistake that I fed our first cat whenever I got up. Dry food was
always available, but after I got up he got his beloved wet food.
I started feeding him at seven o'clock, but he pushed the time back
continuously: at the end - before he died a year later - he started waking
me up at two in the morning. So I've learned my lesson with the present
cats:
Dry food is always available, but wet is not being served before lunchtime,
and another helping comes before bedtime. This works well now. Cats are
smart, very smart, but cat owners are able to learn too ;-)

Carola

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Dik F. Liu - 21 Jun 2004 18:50 GMT

>I made the mistake that I fed our first cat whenever I got up. Dry food was
>always available, but after I got up he got his beloved wet food.
>I started feeding him at seven o'clock, but he pushed the time back
>continuously: at the end - before he died a year later - he started waking
>me up at two in the morning.

With my first cats, I made the same mistake as you did. Now, I as you feed my
cat before going to sleep, and in late mornings. It does take much time to
persuade the cats to reset their time clock. Cats are very stubborn. By their
instincts, cats hunt and eat at night. It's a tall order having them to abandon
their instincts and to live by their our schedule.

Dik

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Scumball - 20 Jun 2004 19:05 GMT

> Hi there,
>
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> I am just wondering if there is anything I can do to stop him from
> crying constantly because its starting to effect my sleep

Correction : Affect my sleep.

Affect - verb (except in the case of "an affect" (noun) - a mood)
Effect - noun (except in the case of "to effect (verb) a repair")

A lot of people have problems with this - and I haven't a clue why !

.

> any ideas or info would be great!
>
> he's a healthy young cat (around 1 year) and always has food/water.
>
> thanks.
> matt

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rpl - 21 Jun 2004 07:42 GMT

> Affect - verb (except in the case of "an affect" (noun) - a mood)
> Effect - noun (except in the case of "to effect (verb) a repair")
>
> A lot of people have problems with this - and I haven't a clue why !

Never had problems with that one... now "practice" and "practise" is
something else :((

pat

PS: your(OP) cat is awake, bored and lonely. Leaving some kibble or
whatever out before you go to bed might help. It isn't a matter of
"hahah sucker woke you up" more like "how the heck can you sleep so
long?(at one shot)"

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