This is getting old real quick. The cats started waking me at 4:30 in the morning. Sometimes I can ignore the alpha male, but it is difficult to do. If we leave the door open, he crawls onto the nightstand and knocks items off. If that doesn’t make me get up, he’ll pace back and forth around me and even bite. If we leave the door shut, the female will scratch at the door jam. This does two things, wrecks the door jam and wakes me.
I don’t really see the need for me to get out of bed at 4:30 in the morning. I would rather sleep till, oh even 5:30 would be nice. It all started happening when the 2007 Daylight Savings time change took effect. You wouldn’t think that would make such a difference. The time changes every year, why would a few extra weeks have such an impact.
It’s a conspiracy, I tell you. These two felines have banded together in an effort to get me out of bed when they want. I am sure of it. If my normal time to get up was 7am they would probably start testing me at 6. Cats are a lot smarter then we give them credit sometimes and animals in general do have an internal clock, scientists believe. How else would they know to plan their attack one hour before my alarm clock goes off? They are not hungry, since we give them 1/3 of their daily food at 10pm.
I believe it is a tactic to get attention. When we first brought our new baby home, I gave the cats extra attention so they wouldn’t feel the baby was getting it all. That seemed to work out well at the beginning. The last few months, I must admit, they have gotten less attention. With both of us working and taking the baby to day care, we only have a couple good hours to do what we need to do. I’ll have to test this theory, and see what the results are.
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