Can your cat tell the time?

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Without fail, mine wakes up at 4:30am shouting to be fed. Highly annoying seeing as my alarm goes off 20 mins later!

To the damn minute

Almost. His clock is always at least half an hour ahead of ours!

Boycat has decided that whether I need to or not, waking up time is 7:00am. That isn't getting up time however, as however early I need to be moving 7:30am is the time I'm allowed out of bed.

Usually both are downstairs standing to attention staring at me at exactly 8:28pm - supper time is usually 8:30pm

I didn't think our beautiful and lovely (but as thick as too short planks) rescue dog could tell the time. Until the clocks went back in October. She now starts whining for food at 3:30 in the afternoon, but we feed her at 4:30. She wakes DD at 6:30 in the morning wanting to be fed. DD is really looking forward to BST.

All cats have a Jack Reacher clock in their head.

Yup. 4pm on the nose and they all appear out of nowhere.

How do they do it!

Yip, my cat can tell the time too. No idea how she does it. It is very annoying.

I had one cat who would go out in the morning and if it was raining I would say "if you're not back by quarter past eight (the time I left for work). You'll be outside all day". 8.15am on the dot he would be on the doorstep to come in.

Another cat Troy would come downstairs at just before News at Ten. During the bongs I would say "is it time for bed?" He would meow and then would race me up the stairs to the bathroom. Stand on the toilet seat with his paws on my shoulders whilst I cleaned my teeth then he would escort me to bed. He would lie on my pillow and I would hold his paw as we both went to sleep. He died well before his time and I miss his funny little ways.

Just bedtime here. He starts nagging me to go to bed at 11pm. Lucky for me he lets me stay there as long as I want and just gets up when I do in the morning, be that 7am or 11am.

My cat understands GMT. F* knows how. But he's same with clocks going forward or back - adjusts immediately.

To clarify above post; in understanding when to expect breakfast, lunch, dinner - not in respect of knowing what the time difference is in e.g Katmandu

Mine has her routine:
6am snoozes on the back of the large sofa
7am jumps on the bed and snoozes more
Various naps, eating, playing and sitting by me
11pm settles on my favourite seat on the small sofa

20 years ago, I spent my weeknights on a Welsh smallholding. We had a beautiful flock of geese. They went for a walk across the valley every evening at 7pm. I'd watch them toddle off from the kitchen. And they absolutely adjusted their timetable to GMT / BST. We used to wonder at it every time the clocks changed.

Wee Simba knows dinner time is 5pm, and generally starts coming and asking for it about 1/2 an hour before and gets really agitated if it is late for any reason. He also needs time to adjust at each clock change as his bodyclock is set an hour differently to the clock.

He sleeps with DD every night, he sits and waits for her around bedtime and starts to get really agitated if she goes to bed late.

My other boy has his morning routine, food, windowsill and then litter tray and a snooze. He jumps off the windowsill at 10.30 on the dot to go and pee!

Mine went through a phase of being dictatorial about bedtime - she would sit outside the bedroom door shouting for me at 10:30pm on the dot.

Other than that, time is for other people.

I have learned not to put the bedside light on if I get up in the night as that is Not Acceptable.

Our cat is fed 4 times a day, and he can absolutely tell what time it is. If you are 10 minutes late, there’s a lot of flouncing. He also knows I get up at 6am, 5 days a week and 8am at the weekend and adjusts.
He has a much better sense if time than either of my children.

Mine can, but they have difficulty adjusting when the clocks change

My parents cat used to trot off to meet us from school. She was much cleverer than my cats :)

Had one that would wait for me on the garden wall to come home from school at the same time every day and years later another one that would wait on the front steps by the pavement for me to come home from work every day, again at the same time. (sometimes I would walk or get the bus so sitting on the step meant she could she me either way). And they knew when it was the weekend! They had better bloody time keeping than I do.