Yea but the cat is running back and forth and climbing up your headboard at 2 AM
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And I'm still sleeping through it.
This is rage bait for sure. My dogs will happily snore cuddled in bed all day. My cat is demanding food at all hours even though he gets fed at exactly 8am and 5pm every day. We call the noise he makes machine gun meows because they are fast, loud, and relentless. The spray bottle lives on my bedside so I can get some sleep.
I don't know if your schedule supports this, but you might have better luck feeding him smaller meals more frequently! My vet said that the "ideal" schedule would be like 10 small meals a day since that would mimic how they eat in the wild but that's pretty unrealistic for basically everyone unless you get an automatic feeder. And then they will just cuddle with the feeder instead of you lol.
Kitty 🥰 Also did you take this photo during his meow attack?
With my cats, whenever they do something bad I just say "no!" And I go and pick them up and put them somewhere else. Eventually they learn and when you say no they just stop whatever they're doing and go do something else. Works better than training with fear, imo.
I also have dry food available for my cats at all times and I only portion wet food. That's stopped them from asking for food during the night. Probably not a good tip for households that also have dogs, however.
So nowadays I rarely get woken up. When I do it's either because I haven't played enough with them or because of some accident like tipping over something or whatever.
I have basically the same training technique. I have one cat that doesn't eat all their wet food immediate. When the others have tried to jump in, that no makes them freeze, then lift and remove without pets or other recognition, eventually they stop trying.
Cats aren't untrainable but they aren't dogs so it requires different techniques and expectations.
For keeping the dry food away from dogs, I keep their free feeders in the cat trees but that means getting the ones that have a large enough middle platform.
I also feed them at night because they can't make me going to sleep. They will make mad dashes to the area where they get wet food if they think I'm going to bed.
Your dog doesn't poop?
Get an auto feeder for your cat.
Now do 3am!
Was about to say: the cat wouldn't be resting by the side of the human, its butt would be right on the face! 🤣
My cat starts screaming for breakfast at 6am.
As of yesterday, it's 5am now
Shouldn't it be 7 am? Given it was 6 am before and we popped an hour ahead, the same time of day would be 7 am. Or has DST addled my mind?
My adorable elderly cat Buttons starts asking for food between 3-5:30am depending entirely on the roll of some arcane dice only she can see.
I could theoretically ignore her sad little meows while she purrs very loudly, going she won't throw up soon after (if not fed) due to her lifetime of sinus issues and constant goopy buildup or just grumble while carrying her down to her food.
So far she's won every single such decision.
I'd appreciate it if you could refrain from spying on me please and thank you
Sent from under my void snoring on my chest
:3 <3
She keeps my heart unbearably warm 💓
Dogs or, as I call them, anti seasonal-depression beings (they force you to go out and take the D)
The vitamin D?
The vitamin D, right? 🙁
Dookie. You take it with you in a little plastic bag.
rofl
My dog is making me do it, aaaahhh
My dog let's me sleep in lol, all the cats I know wake their owners up.
Me and Beri rn
No way, our dogs happily sleep in especially if the weather sucks.
Dogs ask for attention. Cats give attention.
I had a cat who woke me up at 4am for breakfast. He adopted me and my wife, so he arrived with that peculiarity. This was before we got an automatic food dispenser. I miss that little guy every time I'm awake before 5am.
My dog goes out at like 10. This meme isn't even remotely true lol.
My cat literally never needs me to take it outside. Checkmate
At 06:00, my cat is taking a massive shite in his box to make room for 07:00 breakfast. The smell of the little bastard's handiwork makes the wallpaper peel. I love him but would love him more if he'd learn to use the toilet.
You might find the stink less terrible if you can convince him to eat different food. I foster, so I meet a lot of cats, and have found that avoiding fishy foods and high carb foods (kibble) really helps make their poops less stinky.
I also have a different type of litter in the box in my bedroom because I've noticed that my cats don't mind peeing in that litter, but will only poop in it if it's the only box available.
What's odd is he eats the same food as my other cat, but his contributions to the household are far more foul.
Just like humans, some of them are more sensitive to certain ingredients than others. One of mine can eat a wide variety of foods with no noticable issues, while the other gets soft, stinky poops any time I offer just a little variety.
My dog likes to sleep in. She will poke her head out of the covers at 7:30am, watch me get up and then go back to snoring.
Joke is on you… in San Diego, at 6 am, it is never snowing.
Jokes on you cat people, Iike snow.
*5am god damn I'm tired