I'm being dictated to by a furball.

[Justabadwife]

I'm new to 'the litter tray'
Thought I would share a picture of our new leader. He likes to wake us up at 5am every morning, by diving off the windowsill (above the bed) straight onto DH 😂.
Sorry about the photo quality he seems to be camera shy. 🤔

He's gorgeous! I'm glad you accept that he is your leader!

He's lovely. Black cats are the best. Of course you are being dictated to. He is your master!

Boycat has started to do this lately (the jumping from the windowsill onto me in bed) but luckily he tends to leave it until I start moving anyway. It's his way of ensuring he gets his good morning cuddle before I can escape

He's gorgeous! My cat likes to jump up onto the headboard and then jump down on me to wake me up

It's just best to accept early on in the relationship that yes these cute furbabies are in fact horrid dictators. Mine is outside yelling at me that it is my fault he made the bad decision to go out 3 minutes ago.

My girl climbs on the windowsill as soon as I settle down and stays there until my alarm goes off. Obviously, she then has to kill the clock and sit on my head.

He’s gorgeous! He looks just like mine who is also fond of the 5am wake up - he does it by leaping onto the bed, head bumping me and then sitting on my pillow swishing his tail in my face until I react. If I ignore him he then starts gently tapping my face with his paw with ever increasing pressure before I finally give in !

Him nice boy. Our Gatsby used to wake me up at 5 a.m. until he learned that this meant he got nothing :grin: Now he waits until the alarm goes off. He knows that's Gatsby time :grin:

This is our little guy in his favourite box. His brother and sister (Biggie, ginger tom, and Jayda, tuxedo, are not in the pic.)

See my making biscuits thread about my dictator waking me up!

Thank you fellow cat slaves. It's nice to know I'm not alone in my early morning wake ups 😂

Hello JustabadCat 👋🏼

Leroy waves a welcoming paw, but would like to point out that scratching the wardrobe door in a REALLY annoying manner at 4:10AM is much better.

You have my sympathy OP. 😴

So am I the only one who has four paws on their shoulder and a th 'WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA' sound in my ear if I dare stay in bed?

You have a new furry overlord. Welcome to the club!

sashh

Well, if our Biggie sees that I'm awake he will go and sit on me so there is that. The fact that he weighs about 15 pounds doesn't help matters.

In fairness he does have a system. If he knows you're asleep he will find a corner of the bed and sleep there. If he knows it's morning and he sees you're awake he will come and sit on you.

As I posted earlier, Gatsby knows that when the alarm goes off it's Gatsby time Before that he gets nothing. Jayda only really comes to see me at night, but she likes to climb all over me. Fortunately it's only for a few minutes.