My cat is a manipulative sod! Is yours?!

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Like others here I'm sure, my cats have got their various ways of waking me up. (Nibbling nose, feet, biffing my face, etc.) This Summer holiday I've learned to trap myself under the duvet to avoid these vile 5am wakenings, which has worked well so far.

Until now.

Scabbers, the ginger beast, has learned that nothing rouses a sleeper quicker than hearing their glasses being lifted off the metal bedstead and chewed into oblivion. It works every time. I swear he knows what he's doing!!

How do your cats manipulate you?? (Yes, just an excuse for another kitty anecdote thread!)

Yes, he is currently eschewing all toys because he isn't allowed out on weekend evenings and he is having a sulk.

He is determined to be bored. I have tried cardboard pad with catnip sprinkled on it, laser pointer, plastic spider blu tacked to a wall, a shoelace and mr squeaky mouse, the lounge is a sea of packing boxes but no, All ignored while he flops dramatically to the floor.

The miaows are getting progressively more and more pathetic.

I lock him away at night. I'm not up for 4am paw in the mouth because we all know that paws been in his litter tray.

Paaaha! You too know the pain of a manipulative cat!
Incidentally, where do you get catnip from? I have a stuffed toy thing that's apparently laced with the stuff and it drives the cats wild. I'd love to make some of my own.

Ooh I don't know, it came with his cardboard scratch pad and I assumed that when it ran out I'd order it off eBay or something.

I hold open the bag and he scoops it out with his paw.

You can get a spray on cat nip too from pets at home, it's useful for scratch posts.

Fat old cat has been and got DH to open a door for her so she could go in his music room!

Kitten cat is very manipulative, comes in from the garden, finds one of us, issues a really big meow, stalks off, turns round, meows again as if to say 'come on, I always get treats when I come back in'

I quite often wake up and the pair of them are staring at me, willing me to wake up, little buggers never do that to DH!

We shut ours downstairs too

However when girl cat escapes upstairs to get to me I too have done the hide under the duvet trick, only she has worked out how dig under it such is her persistance and determination to snuggle with me

Ha, it's so sweet when they're so loving! I do like dogs, but I love the fact cats just give you little bursts of love and affection. Makes you feel special

My cat with a brain systematically knocks things off the bedside table at 5.0a.m. if I don't wake up - - then glares at me - if this fails to have any movement he progresses to the chest of drawers and knocks the contents of that on the floor too - - if this fails he attacks my feet at the end of the bed - under the duvet - - - I worry he is too intelligent sometimes . . .

Mine are so manipulative that I have had to stop reading my book so they can both curl up on me

The also know when I'm on mums net and bash my phone out of my hands so I've got 2 hands free to stroke them

Fat old cat cuddles up to me in bed and can stay there all night, sometimes kittencat joins in but a tussle follows about who gets right next to me and often a midnight scrap occurs (fat old cat usually wins, she's quite terrartorial about me)

sorry, *territorial

I'm so pleased so many people sleep with their cats. My friends think I'm a bit of a loon for doing so!

My cat just has to look at me in a certain way and I know it is because he wants me to feed him . I am sooo under the thumb. But I don't mind as he has been so ill I am just glad he is alive .

What has been wrong with him, spanky? Glad he's better!

my current fosters go into a cat pen over night so they dont rampage round the place all night and they have worked out that after breakfast is they screech at the top of thier voices i will relent very quickly and let them out for rampage time

Many, many years ago, Firstcat (a massively intelligent, old-fashioned Siamese) used to go outside, as they nearly all did in those days. He was also very particular and would never have dreamed of relieving himself inside the house.

Early hours of the morning therefore, with an increasingly full bladder, he would try to wake me up to let him out downstairs at the front door. And I was a real mean wakee (not much has changed.) I woke up early one morning to the sound of various things from my crowded bedside table being biffed onto the floor, one by one, with a pause between each - to see if I woke up. Biff, crash, pause......Biff, crash, pause....... Biff .....and so on.

That was because we had all been tasked to close the piano in the dining room after he discovered that walking up and down the piano keys at two in the morning always produced my father, swearing and holding a poker to repel burglars perhaps - but indubitably downstairs and able to open the door.

Those were just two of the incidents. People with catflaps don't know they're born these days! (And I grin every time I think of those litter trays upstairs here.)

at the cat playing the piano to get attention

I currently have one cat and a herd of 5 six week old little cuties!

They manipulate me by being too bloody adorable. To the point that we were going to keep 1 kitten and now looks like we are keeping 3 (the other two are going to a lovely ladie who has before now paied to bring a stray home from her holiday in Turkey, so I know they will be loved to bits!).

I can't hold a coherent convo, without breaking off with 'awwwws' and squeaking about their antics!

Knocking everything off my bedside table and then peering at it on the floor gets me out of bed.

Pretending to be stuck on the garage roof so I have to get the patio chair out, she jumps into it and I lower it down like some sort of cat lift.

Bringing me slow worms and grass snakes.

We have to do a middle of the night feed due to being licked awake by grey cat. She stares you down by sitting on the pillow and licking your eyelids. 3.05am every night.
Big black cat just says yeow yeow yeow yeow ad nauseum until you're resolve is so eroded he gets exactly what he requires.
Usually it's ' open the back door for me you bastards as my fat arse no longer fits through the cat flap "
Or " I am on the wrong side of the door....again"
Again this is relentless .

(the other two are going to a lovely ladie who has before now paied to bring a stray home from her holiday in Turkey, so I know they will be loved to bits!).

Er, OMG! This didn't happen to be a blue/grey cat, did it? Because I know someone who did the exact same thing. In fact, the tortie kittie on my profile used to be hers!

Not sure whether manipulative or just wilfully ignorant. Video of me attempting to get cat out of bed
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Well we all know who's in charge in that household.

One of mine has just jumped on me in bed. She. Was soaking wet
She had been outside & clearly need a quick rub down with a towel. Her towel is in the utility 3 floors down. She knew I would have to get up to get it so I used my fluffy bath towel on her. ( more washing ) now she is in the middle of my bed curled up & snoring.

cozie - no idea what you mean
Humans only need 1% sofa space
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I knew a deaf guy, like a lot of deaf people his bedside alarm was a light rather than a sound. His cat learned to switch the light on to wake him.