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- From: jkl@fsl.noaa.gov (Jennifer Longstaff)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: early wake up calls
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.172228.6995@fsl.noaa.gov>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:22:28 GMT
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- Marble seems to wake up with the sun (right now that equals about 5am), then
- she goes to her kitty condo which is right next to the head of my bed. She
- scratches the side of it as loudly as possible which usually wakes me up.
- I ignore the condo-scratching until she (knowing she's being bad) reaches
- a paw over to also scratch the mattress. Then I reach down and swat her
- little rear. Then the game is on!! She peers out at me, takes one swipe
- at the mattress, then runs back under the bed. Note that the other two
- cats are completely zoned out sleeping on the bed during all this, and they
- never wake up or move a muscle.
-
- Anyway, I eventually get up and pick up Marble (who has run over to her
- empty bowl expectantly) and put her downstairs and close the bedroom door.
-
- This story has a (temporarily) happy ending; this morning Marble woke up
- at 5, clawed the kitty condo, then jumped up in front of my face and curled
- up and snuggled down to go back to sleep until everyone else got up later.
- Maybe she's finally realized that all she will accomplish is to get put
- downstairs when she'd rather stay upstairs where the people and the other
- cats are.
-