Hi! Every morning, after my alarm goes off and sometimes before, my cat will start repeatedly meowing. I've tried feeding him and even bringing him to the bed and petting him, but as soon as it's over he runs away and starts the meowing again. I like to hit my snooze alarm a time or two, so this is driving me nuts. I live in a one room apartment, so there's no keeping him out of the room. Can anyone help? Real answers only please- no mean suggestions about killing him. Thanks!!
details: his food and water are in my room, he's always fed before bed and played with so he sleeps most of the night. I can't put him outdoors, he's an indoor cat strictly. I've tried the water gun technique, but at that stage of the morning, it's pretty impractical, because there's no suprising him with it. Just wanted you to know the situation! Thanks again!
2007-02-14 23:47:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Cats
my hubbys cat does this too........he knows what time I get up and somehow his internal clock tells him to wake me up.......unfortunately he doesnt know a monday from a saturday.........no advice here......just sympathy ........stupid cat
2007-02-18 14:45:23 · answer #1 · answered by dad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi there
Hope I can help a bit. It sounds as though you are already doing everything I would have suggested anyway but my one - possibly rather odd - thought is this: is it mostly after the alarm goes off? If so, could it be the sound of the alarm itself that's setting the meowing off? I know it sounds daft - but it might just be worth while trying an alarm with a different sound.
I can really empathize with your snooze button habit - I am just the same (to my husband's despair)! Plus we have a cat that has all night access to our bedroom and have perfected the art of getting out of bed to feed her in the small hours without properly waking up. Bit like managing to go along the corridor to the loo in the night without properly waking up, I guess; we're both pretty good at that, too!
If all else fails the only thing I can think of is going to bed a bit earlier, so you don't feel sleep deprived if you have to get up at the first, not second or third alarm.
Oh, one last thought - how thick are the curtains in your room? Maybe getting some thicker ones that exclude more light might help keep your cat sleepy for longer.
Good luck!
2007-02-15 00:05:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ii feel your pain..i have two cats that do the same thing..and i am sooo lazy..but i know others with cats that go through the same thing..maybe you can try setting the alarm for a different time, later then normal..so when it goes off you wont need to hit the snooze..your cat is in sync with your habits and knows about when you should be getting up..myself and other people i know have not really come up with anything to stop this from happening and i have have other rooms i can put them but still hear the faint meow or scratches at the door..lol...maybe if you have a bathroom with a door..put him in there in the morning..sounds a little harsh but it really is not if it means you can catch a few extra zzz's before starting your day... good luck..
2007-02-15 00:25:29 · answer #3 · answered by dasu751520 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL Ours often wake us up before the alarm. We have learned to live with it. It might be your alarm clock bothers him. Can you change the sound of the alarm?
Our cats would freak at the sound of the new alarm clock. It bothered us too. Finally we got another alarm clock with a chime alarm which is softer on the ears.
2007-02-15 00:20:48 · answer #4 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just wanted you to know you're not alone. I don't wake up to an alarm but my cat sits on my head every AM @ 5:30. I push her off & she comes back. She is getting a bit better not later tho.
2007-02-18 16:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by Memeiko 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm uncertain how previous your cat is, yet I had the comparable subject amazing around 3-5 months. We tried each thing, too. Locked her out, sprayed her with water, even basically putting up with it for a pair of days. there grew to become into no specific wager on what to do, whether it basically wore her out and he or she found out it grew to become into unacceptable. i comprehend waiting seems ridiculous, yet I waited approximately 2 weeks and it basically diminished. Locking her out did look the final technique, via fact she would be large for the 1st couple of days and then wake us up yet back. Then, we'd positioned her outdoors back. It grew to become into basically our way of announcing, in case you wake us up, you won't be in a position to sleep with us. She have been given it particularly in the present day. I hate to declare it, yet i think like the final answer is endurance. It seems such as you're doing the ultimate difficulty.
2016-10-02 04:22:09 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well your cat is just doing his job, waking you up. First, cats become aware of their human's routine so when he hears the alarm he knows by now you get up or should get up so he wants to help you that's all. Second, it probably hurts his sensitive ears and he wants you to shut it off. He is just acting like your backup alarm clock. Mine actually used to lay on my pillow and yell at me so I couldn't put my head back down.
2007-02-18 16:09:36 · answer #7 · answered by Rhode Island Red 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol
my cat does that its be because he thinks you just lie in there and they your like a play to so he will clime up on you and pree
2007-02-14 23:51:01 · answer #8 · answered by Paintballer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's just trying to wake you up so you can make his day !
2007-02-14 23:53:11 · answer #9 · answered by Lucy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Needs to go out and pee.
2007-02-15 00:01:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋