To think 12.30am is an inappropriate time to be chasing a bauble round the living room?

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And she didnt even look sorry when i rumbled her! Bloody cat. The dog looked suitably guilty, and rightly so- i left him in charge!

I got DH up at 4am a few nights ago to see off the intruder downstairs - it was bloody stupid adorably funny cat chasing a discarded quality street wrapper around the living room! So far he hasn't attacked the tree but he does, occasionally, stop licking his arse long enough to give it the stink eye.

I knew it would be a pesky cat.

It always is a pesky cat. I think a switch flips inside their brains when the lights go out. All day snoozing on my bed, all night chasing shadows or furballs round the house or practising for the bleep test up and down the stairs!

We have those bed sidelights that you just touch to switch on. The cats have somehow figured this out, and if walking on your head, purring like a train or kneading bare skin(with just enough claw to get your attention) doesn't work the touch it with their nose then start racing round the room like they are high on catnip.

Usually at 4 am.

That is genius! Evil genius of course. I love that.

Has the dog been demoted?

I am fed up with WWF restling on the landing at 5am. The baubles are rearranged - not sure who to blame. Two cats and one spaniel are the prime suspects.

My cat is doing sad face and yowling at me. I've got subtitles on because I can't hear the tv over him. No idea what he wants

**wrestling

Oh apparently he is sad I am not in bed. Now he's sat on the pillow yowling and looking sad

My pesky cat does the same.

She has hidden a tiny bauble somewhere which I hear her playing with outside the bedroom in the middle of the night. Annoys the hell out of me but once I am comfortable, am I heck getting up for anything!

Can never find the pissing bauble the next day though, whilst she is then happily sleeping away on my bed under the quilt no lie... at the end of the bed. Which, by the way, is ALWAYS at the end of my feet and if I dare move them whilst she is there, they get attacked. Pfft.

Better than in the attic plugging a hole in the roof which I have just been doing!

This is why my two are locked in the kitchen overnight, if left to roam they decide 4am is THE perfect time to start running from room to room and start to chase each other up the stairs.

My cat spent 2 hours last week, spinning and rolling the metal wine stopper around the kitchen floor...right above my bedroom, because I wouldn't let her get into bed with me..again. She knew I would call her name to stop her noise...and then she could get in bed with me. Cow.

A couple of years ago my mum bought some baubles with bells in, knowing that my cats always take the baubles off in the night - it was a very noisy couple of weeks!

And anyone trying to resist the cat - I believe they are our feline overlords so resistance is futile

goodas I hope you went straight to bed when you realised what he wanted!

I'm missing at least 5 baubles from the lower reaches of the tree. I swear they are not under the sofa. Just hope the cats haven't actually eaten them and suppose at least I should be grateful they haven't had the tree over (yet).

catsmother I bet you will find them long after the decs have been put away - they seen to have magical hiding places!

My cats I are clearly from some higher, stuck up order. They barely deign to grace us with their presence and when they do it's just to eat and then leave without so much as a thank you. Very very occasionally one may decide he'll treat us and have a nap on the sofa and leave all his bloody fur there when he leaves
I think they think they're royalty paying a visit to the peasants.

No exactly what DH had in mind when he wanted cats!!

Actually one of them just threw up after a lot of spectacular honking and coughing ..... was it a fur ball ? ...... err no ....... was it a clump of grass ? ...... the remains of some small rodent ? ...... no, it was an inch long piece of tinsel. I don't even have any tinsel on the flipping tree - but DD had taken a piece into school to wear at the Xmas concert and so obviously the cat had had a bite out of that when no one was looking.

Cats must imagine Xmas is just one big long feline adventure playground put on especially for them.

Oh - and I also have this sparkly feathery owl thing I hang from the window quite high up and at least one of the monsters have had two feathers from its tail so it's looking a bit bedraggled now (I suppose it was asking for trouble to tempt them with a life size bird thing).

I am so pleased to see this thread this morning. Mine spent all night chasing a hair bobble sound the bedroom, and drumming on a box of tissues on the bed side table (which I then had to sleep with under the covers as I couldn't take it anymore).

I saw every hour on the clock. Then when I had to get up at 6, she had the cheek to come and sit on my knee when I was at my dressing table and have a fucking nap.

I could throttle her. But she's so cute.

My moggy just had a mad half hour. Started off chasing a Christmas decoration she had knocked off the tree and then moved on to a wrapped boiled sweet which she hit up in the air right into one of dd's shoes.

Our cat must be spectacularly lazy. The only thing he has played with in years is a tiny fluffy furby out of a happy meal, much to ds distress!

He gets shut in the kitchen at night otherwise he tears up the carpet trying to get in the bedrooms and makes a general nuisance of himself. We are woken enough in the night by kids, the cat doesn't need to add to it!

My Christmas tree is on a 45 degree lean, completely devoid of decorations down one side where our 2 kittens have been launching themselves off the living room window still at it at 3am.

Bloody cats

I forgot i had posted this. Cats really do rule us dont they?

Doggy has just about held onto his supervisory position but is on a last warning. If it happens again he'll have to supervise her in the back hall