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!)

My 2 boys sleep with me but only when dh isn't snoring or in bed.... One likes to walk up me then sit on my side and kneed me while purring VERY loud to wake me up and the other pads at whatever part of my head/arm is above covers so I will let him under. Then procedes to knees any patch of bare skin and cry when I stop stroking him. I love them both but my god they are little manipulative shits when they want something! Lol

Quite right too, chickydoo. (You should really, of course, have been out of bed and outside following her around with a brolly to stop her getting wet in the first place!)

Grinned at that one, sashh.

Wow, I've never even thought about alarm clocks for the deaf, clever kitty

For some reason, Seniorboy wanted supper this evening earlier than his scheduled time. I was, of course, holding out for closer to bedtime when the blighter went and sat on a library chair (that he has never before used) on top of a black dress that had been freshly laundered and was free, for once, of all cat hair. I'd temporarily laid it there.

The look on his face was a mix of smugness, malice and pure, pure glee.

He got his supper early. I know when I'm outclassed for once.

I have to hide my glasses in a tissue box at night as Pippin tries to eat them. Other wake up Mummy ploys include yowling outside the bedroom window, eating paint chips off the wall, attacking the bottom of the bed. All around term time getting up time, I.e 5.20am, he doesn't get it that in the holidays I want to sleep longer!