Adventures With Cats

[mousme]

:::06:00 this morning:::

Me: *sleeps*

George: "MUMMY! GOOD MORNING! I LOVE YOU LOTS!" *leaps onto my spleen*

Me: *oof!* "George, get off!" *turns over and goes back to sleep*

George: "MUMMY! IT'S MORNING! YOU SHOULD PAT ME!" *headbutts me*

Me: *grumble* "Go 'way."

George: "I LOVE YOU, MUMMY! WAKE UP!" *headbutts me in the face*

Me: "Go 'way."

George: "I LOVE YOU LOTS AND LOTS! LET ME SHOW YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU!" *sticks his wet nose in my ear*

Me: "For the love of..." *tosses cat onto the floor*

George: "MUMMY! YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO MEEEEEE!" *leaps up onto night table and rubs against lamp*

Me: *knocks cat onto floor*

George: *jumps back onto bed* "MUUUUUMMMMMYYYYYY! I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU GET UP! GET UP GET UP GET UP!" *headbutts me in the face*

Me: *knocks cat onto floor*

George: *jumps back onto bed* "MUMMY! YOU'RE NO FUN AT ALL! GET UUUUUUUP!" *licks indiscriminately at my face*

Me: "FINE! God, I'm up. I'm UP! Get off me!" *gets up*

George: "YAAAAAAAAAAAY!"

Me: *gets up*

George: *curls up on sofa upstairs and goes to sleep*

Me: ...

Comments

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

cat stew for supper?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I seriously considered it when he tried chewing on my ear.

[le-maistre-e.livejournal.com]

I love you. I love George. I have a George. I have TWO Georges and this is perfect.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

All my cats do this to varying degrees, but yeah, George is the worst. My sympathies. :)

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

I've outsmarted mine. As soon as she starts batting at me, I jump up and pet her for about five minutes, and she moves on to the "curling up and going to sleep" phase. Much better than 10 minutes of fighting followed by getting up anyway.

Mind you, before this she outsmarted me by realizing that if she wants ME to get up, she should bat at my WIFE - I'm capable of shoving her off the bed over and over for ages, but a single noise of complaint from my wife gets me moving instantly.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

See, I've tried the whole petting-for-five-minutes thing, but that just guarantees that 1) I'll be awake, and 2) George will be so revved up that he'll keep pestering me afterward. He doesn't curl up and go to sleep until I've come upstairs and started to make coffee. :P

Thanks for the thought, though.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, you have to walk out into the other room to do it so they think you're awake. Then when their guard is down you nip back into the bedroom and hide under the covers.

[borrowedwings.livejournal.com]

Wow, so it's not just me who fights this battle every morning. Good to know.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Nope. Every day, or almost. When I'm working day shift, I actually get up earlier than George.

[gwendally.livejournal.com]

It's nice that you think it's love. We figured our cat was jumping up to see if we were dead yet. If not, we ought to be getting up to feed him. If so, he'd just eat us. We never interpreted it as love.

We solved this battle by shutting the cat out of our room at night. All the kids complained, too, so we all ended up sleeping in our bedrooms with the doors shut because of this cat. That's safer in case of fire and more sound-proof in case of sex, so we figured it was a fine thing.

Perhaps we were abusive to our cat for not letting him sleep with us, but we just couldn't handle the facial attacks every morning.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

My George loves me. He doesn't even want food half the time. He just wants pats. Okay, maybe it's not love in the human sense, but it's the kind of love cats give, which is very nice indeed. :)

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Carter does a similar trick - scratching and whining to get me up so that I will let him out of his crate in the morning, so that he can go downstairs and curl up on the couch, instead.

[tcaptain.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. Smokey gives me that around 5am. Makes me want to see if he can fly.

[foi-nefaste.livejournal.com]

They do land on their feet when tossed across the room or out the door.

... erm, hypothetically speaking, of course...

[tcaptain.livejournal.com]

LOL

[griffen.livejournal.com]

We must never, ever let Mimi meet George. The two of them together would create a singularity of Cat Morning Freakiness and we would all DIE, I tell you, DIE!

Ahem.

Sounds EXACTLY like Mimi at about 4:30 a.m. every morning.

[miseri.livejournal.com]

Not a cat owner here, but I wonder ... have you ever tried grabbing hold of him when he does that, and going back to sleep with him cuddled in your arms like a teddy bear?

...'cos that's what I would do....

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Yes. That works with Pan-Pan, but not with George. George just squirms and kicks and purrs and licks harder.