How have your cat masters got you or family members trained?

[DrMadelineMaxwell]

Dcat just kicked dh out of his seat by trying to worm her way under his arm and dig with her paws to get behind him. Crying pitifully.

He, naturally, gave in and moved seats and she is now curled up all toasty in the warm spot left when he moved.

She has him well trained.

She also has us trained to open a drawer when she wants to sleep in one, when she reaches up to one and cries.

Dcat has been with us 3 months. Started off with her sleeping in the hall, no way were we going to have a cat in our bed. Now we sleep with the door open and she sleeps between us.

The pitiful crying and scratching at the door to come in our room was more than either of us could bear.

Dh brings her food bowl upstairs when he comes to bed as well so she can have a snack. She won’t go downstairs on her own in the dark🤣

We sleep with a window open so cat can go out at night. If we close it, cat will jump on us at 5am to be let out. So we have an extra thick duvet as it's our bedroom window.

Cheddar sits on the stairs and yowls at the top of her lungs. Took me ages to work out that she wants me to take her up to bed..

Oh and all boxes and paper packaging must be left out to be played with/slept in. For days.

Phoebe gets DH's empty bowl of granola every morning so she can lick the yoghurt off. If, for some reason he doesn't have it she badgers him until he opens the tub and dollops out a spoonful on a plate...

DontKeepTheFaith She won't go downstairs on her own in the dark . She's SO spoiled.

My boy comes to bed with me, sleeps on a fleecy blanket at the bottom of my bed. When he thinks it's time for bed, he keeps crying until I turn off the lights downstairs and go up to bed, with him following. He wakes me every morning at 6, wanting to get under the duvet with me.

Both my cats insist on being walked to their food bowl whenever they come inside during the day. So on an average day I have to get up around 10 times to escort them.

Boycat insists on going to sleep on my lap every evening. If he thinks it's bedtime and I'm not sitting down yet, he will sit there and yell until I make myself available to be sat on. Should I need to get up again before he's fallen into a deep enough sleep, he will follow me and start yelling again.

DC (darling cat, or that darn cat, if you prefer) sleeps on the bed. I the middle of the bed. Between me and DH. DC always sleeps on the bed but either DH or I decamp to the spare bed three or four times a week because the bloody cat is hogging the duvet by sleeping on top of it.

DC is lucky he is so cute, really. He is currently curled up next to me on the couch and purring.

I turn on the outside lights for my eldest cat when he goes out for his bedtime wee wees. He is scared of the dark and very old but hates using a litter tray.

I wail at her until she puts food in my bowl. She really must not have that flat light up thing on her lap when I want to sit there, so I sit on it. I do not tolerate a closed door so I scratch and howl until she lets me into her sleeping place. There's a table in the window from which I spy on the neighbourhood. If she puts things on it, I just push them off.

Mine sits on the kitchen table every morning and stares at my husband. my husband has to cook him a bit of bacon for breakfast everyday. If not he just sits there and stares at us until we do.
He is old and we love him.

I am loving these xxx

DW cannot go downstairs on the morning until she has allowed Basil to play with her dressing gown cord. He sits up on the bed and yells at her until she complies.
Sybil joins us on the kitchen table every morning to ensure she gets her porridge ration...

I took DCat's food bowl and a pouch of smelly food upstairs last night so that I could oblige him with a meal at 3.15 this morning He is lucky he's not been made into a pair of slippers this week

My parents' cat sits on the landing after breakfast letting out the occasional sad wail, until someone (preferably my DF) comes upstairs and escorts her the 12 steps to my parents bed. A nest must be prepared in the duvet, and the cat must be concealed beneath a wool pullover.

The settling process may be repeated several times until the human assistant gets it right.

@MyGlassKeepsLeaking

DontKeepTheFaith She won't go downstairs on her own in the dark . She's SO spoiled.

My boy comes to bed with me, sleeps on a fleecy blanket at the bottom of my bed. When he thinks it's time for bed, he keeps crying until I turn off the lights downstairs and go up to bed, with him following. He wakes me every morning at 6, wanting to get under the duvet with me.

Oh I know, she’s a complete madam😍

She is a ragdoll and she is just so needy. We adore her but she just will not go downstairs on her own. It is slightly irritating at the weekend when we want a lie in!

If I go down with her, she is happy enough and will basically just ignore me🤣🤣

1 cat will sit on radiator in the hallway, until you get up to feed her in the kitchen. The other one will sit and stare at you until you get up and let her out. She refuses to use the cat flap as her staff have to pander to her every whim.

Ours gets carried to his bed every night. When he starts miouwing and rolling on the floor that’s the sign to carry him to his bed in the utility room and give him his snack. He usually heads off out about half an hour later.

Glad to see it’s not just mine that does the ‘crying on the stairs because it’s bedtime’ routine!

My male cat come in through the back door at tea time and jumps onto the wooden work surface next to the wall between the kitchen and the utility room and stands there waiting for someone to carry him round the wall, through the open door, and into the utility room where his food is.

@nettytree mine stares as well. He will jump up next to me and just sit and stare. But not an ordinary stare. A state like the devil where I think wow. What I do to wrong you that badly

DC1 has somehow managed to loosen the draft excluder brush bar on the back door & now bangs it against the back door to let me know she wants to go out! Makes quite a loud thud & taken me but surprise on a fair few occasions. Good job she's loved...

When DC has decided it’s her bedtime, she moves from her spot on the landing windowsill and yowls at the (ajar!) lounge door for cat mum to refresh her water, fill her food bowl and lift her onto her radiator hammock in the kitchen so that purring and sleeping can commence!

I serve breakfast and supper in bed (her bed, she has two) as our Dcat is a senior and often needs tempting with food, she eats a lot more this way. I serve it on a tea towel that looks like a tablecloth too (messy eater).

I trained our DC to sit on a stool for a treat, or so I thought...what had actually happened was that they had trained me to give them a treat every time they sat on the stool.....