Da Goddess

I know what you mean. Ours thanked me for bringing her in & feeding her this morning by barfing profusely by her food dish. The bitch got uncermoniously dumped back outside. The next time Mike says oh honey, let's get the kitty "mature cat" food instead of the "hairball" formula kind, I'm gonna smack him upside the head....hard.

We just got a fourth cat... a kitten really...

Yes, we're now officially one of "those" people.

I just recently got two kittens so I know exactly what you are talking about. They are good until about 5am, at which time they deside its time to get up and wrestle, on top of my sleeping body. Ugh.

One, named Loki (for very good reasons), likes to lay across my neck. Not a big deal when I'm laying on my stomach, but if i'm on my back I can barely breath! Ugh.

If this is only a fraction of what child rearing is like, I think I may become a monk. Oh wait, I am already, for all intensive purposes.

I have four of the little monsters, my only boy cat has long ago perfected the only way that works to get me out of bed and that is to stomp on my bladder. Anything else, I just roll over but that makes me need to pee so I get up. I have long since closed my door when I want to get some sleep.

Hey, does the hairball formula work? Little monsters are always coughing up those disgusting things.

I realize I'm standing in a garden of cat lovers and that's a bad place for a dog lover to be. Still, I'm thinking the most wonderful way in the world to wake up is realizing that someone has a wet nose an inch from your face and has been looking quizzically at you with sweet, soft brown eyes for the last five minutes. Reaching out, feeling that warm soft fur and then receiving that inevitable sluuuuurrrrppp right across the face is just the perfect way to be awaken.

I'm goin' 'way out on a dangerous limb here and suggesting if your cat's way of waking you up isn't what you'd hope for, swap the furry [expletive deleted] for a real friend.

I know, now I've done it. Please don't ban my IP, okay.

The last thing I hear every night is the purring of my cat Zoe and one of the first things I hear in the morning is the same sound.

I can't imagine ever living in a house without a cat. Oh yes, they're no where near as demonstrative as a dog, but to me their affection is all the sweeter for being so hard to come by.

Damn, those little butt lickers own my heart. *Sigh*.

The last thing I hear every night is the purring of my cat Zoe and one of the first things I hear in the morning is the same sound.

I can't imagine ever living in a house without a cat. Oh yes, they're no where near as demonstrative as a dog, but to me their affection is all the sweeter for being so hard to come by.

Damn, those little butt lickers own my heart. *Sigh*.

Oh, that was about a cat.

I just can't imagine a wake up call like that. Not that I don't like cats, I'm just deathly allergic to them. Oxygen tents were not made for camping out. I have had dogs though, and Ron is right about how THEY wake you up.

Haha - I have the prestigious position of having both, and if my sleep is being disturbed, I am not a lover of either! =)

Thankfully the dog sleeps in his kennel - but if we sleep too long, or the bf leaves real early (like this morning), he'll yip and howl (think Chewbacca!) because he thinks he's been forgotten. Gah! - if he woke me up with a slurp on the face, my day would never recover.

The cats will wake up anywhere between 3-5am and start wrestling loudly, usually next to the bed, and then proceed to chase each other, usually over the bed (it's alarming how much noise such small creatures can make!!) . . . at which point they get tossed out of the bedroom (if one of us can catch them).

I agree - I can definitely wait for child-rearing! *L*

*snort guffaw* am sorry dear, but i can picture it all in my mind, anf having been in your plcae, i just have to grin. semms most cat have this penchant for licking things, and pulling at tings. sily creatures, but terribly adorable.

been there, still get woken up every day at 6 by a faceful of vibrating fur. Sometimes I get a close up view of the "little brown eyeball" just for specials...

Having always had pets (cats, dogs, rabbits) I've never had a problem with my current five gatos coming in the bedroom at night.

My fianc\x{00E9} on the other hand....

Needless to say I'm learning early on compromise generally equates to "Yes dear."

*chuckle*

ha ha ha....been there done that :)

Oh, this sounds SOOOO familiar. I have a pair of the little beasts myself - they've entirely eliminated the need for an alarm clock. They go off generally about 5:30; sometimes a little later. And if there's a snooze button, I can't find it. The only thing that shuts them up is my husband getting up to feed them. Still...being purred to sleep has to be right up there with the top ways to be pampered at bedtime...

This was too funny! Been there done that many times over. I have a momma cat and her 4 kittens who are now 8 months old. They think our bed is their racetrack starrting around 5:45 am. AND if any of them want to be petted before then, they lie next to our ears and meow until we wake up. Keep up the great posts!