My oldest cat, Diezel, has a not-so-funny peculiarity. Some nights, he takes the clock radio (the buttons) between his teeth, lift it about 10 cm , and drop it on the nightstand. This will be repeated untill we sit up like lit candles in the bed, staring in disbelief at the cat. When he got our full attention, he leaves the room, probably because he want to be alone laughing his tail off behind the sofa.
This has given the word "wake-up-call" a whole new dimension to me, as well as I now hate the sound of the clock radio bumping up and down more then I loath the signal. I am not sure it could be called a progress, but I also learnt there are more ways then one to use a clock radio.
This nights sleep was abrupted at three occasions when Diezel thought it was crucial for us to sit up and look stupid. Fourth time I woke up by the sound of loud purring, in my foggy mind I wondered where he got the amplifiers from. I looked (yes, in disbelief) at him, and I'll be damned if the cat wasn't smiling!
Right now, I don't know what to do, but what I do know, is I need my sleep...
And my clock radio...
(and yes, it is the criminal wake-up-caller on the photo, now ten years, but still going strong.)
varga
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I think your cat knows exactly what it's doing. I bet it has noticed the pattern that when you wake up you give attention to the alarm clock when it makes sound.
So it is making the clock make sound, so that you give attention to it, to wake you up!
Although far less clever than your cat, varga, nevertheless our cat has discovered that ordinary meows just won't get us up off our butts to feed her. She knows we will respond (even negatively!) to the sound of claws tearing at the expensive sofa and rug.
Or she got into the habit of following me into the loo and trying to jump up on my lap.
If you have a dog, feed him, house him, love him, he thinks you are a God. If you have a cat, house him, feed him, love him, he thinks HE is a God.
Cats do not have family - they have Staff.
I knew a cat who would wait on a 5 ft fence for next door's dog who could not quite reach the top of the fence, until said dog saw it and (of course) rushed up to and try to get onto the fence. The cat of course knew he couldn't. So the dog tires itself out, falls back to all-fours, panting. The cat sidesteps off the fence, onto the dog, jabs in all 20 claws and whoosh - is back on the fence. The dog of course is then back up the fence and the whole thing starts again. The cat KNOWS he's good for four or five goes at this before either he get bored, or the dog gets bright and clears off. I've SEEN this.
Another cat.....would sit happily on your knee and 'be asleep'. Then, at a random moment of her choosing, she would stick a single claw deep into your knee. She'd be really miffed that you tipped her onto the floor, threw her across the room, or drop-kicked her out of the window, but she would come back, forgive you, climb on your knee....and (well, you know the rest).
A dog bite is clean - a cat bite will go sceptic 99% of the time.
Dogs love you unconditionally - cats pretend to love you on condition that she is warm, has food, the freedom to destroy all the furniture, the freedom to sh*t in the kitchen when it's cold outside and the run of anywhere SHE sees fit.
Hmmmm... I begin to see some parallels here...(sorry, couldn't resist).
Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)