<p>This post was inspired by the recent discussions of our favorite animal on “My exciting life” thread…</p>
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<p>This is my cat’s M.O., although minus the baseball bat. Her ultimatum after patting my face and sitting on me is to jump on my head. I have sympathy for any small rodent or bird that a cat hunts, because that jump has a lot of force behind it. And it works. I get up and let her out, whether it’s 4:30 a.m. or 7 a.m. Sigh.</p>
<p>all they left out was the licking with cat-food breath!</p>
<p>AW! I needed that!</p>
<p>Thanks BunsenBurner - It’s always nice to have a good laugh in the morning.</p>
<p>Hey, thats my cat.</p>
<p>Someone hid a video camera in my house!</p>
<p>TOO FUNNY and sooooo true…thanks!! I have passed it along…</p>
<p>When I was in my 20’s I had a smart, hilarious cat who put together that when my alarm clock went off, that’s when I would finally get up. So he would sit on my beside table and stare intently at the alarm clock, and bat IT. And once in a while he’d bat it off the table and-- BRRRRRRRRRR!-- it would go off…</p>
<p>Funny stuff! We have dry food out all the time for our cats, so the only time they’ll even care is if they are out of food or water. My cats would prefer that I sleep all the time (and I’m happy to oblige), so they can have a warm place to curl up on or nearby… The demonic cat-from-hell sleeps on my stomach, and usually her chubby sister isn’t too far away. Occasionally, they’ll fight over me – not quite as ego-boosting has having two suitors duel it out, but I guess I’ll have to take it.</p>
<p>When we were first married, my H and I lived with Nick, the smartest, most diabolical cat i’ve ever known.
Nick figured out quickly that if he stood too close to us while trying to wake us on weekend mornings, he would most likely be tossed, very gently, off the bed.
So Nick perfected the art of hopping up on the dresser and knocking off something large to capture our attention. If we still didn’t get up, Nick would gently bat at some precious breakable, slowly moving it closer and closer to the edge of the dresser while staring over at us to see if we got his message.
He had us well trained in short order.</p>
<p>sarha, my cat does the same thing! She sits on the floor and howls. If we ignore her, she jumps onto the desk and starts pushing things onto the floor. She’s adept at pushing piles of important papers over the side and into the wastebasket. After each item goes over, she howls again.</p>
<p>We tried re-training her. If she annoyed us early in the morning, we picked her up and locked her in the basement. If she waited quietly until we got up, then we would let her go outside (which is what she really wanted). After 2 years, she still has not figured out that knocking stuff off the desk gets you locked in the basement, but waiting for us to get up gets you a free pass outside. </p>
<p>As my husband says, she has a brain the size of a walnut.</p>
<p>Momneedsadvice, I have to tell my H that there is another cat as clever as our Nick!
We tried locking him out of the bedroom but soon discovered that his partner in crime, our other kittie, Henry, was adept at opening/unlocking all types of doors. This surprised us because Henry was in all other respects a not-very-clever boy.
My H referred to Henry as our idiot savant cat.</p>
<p>One of our cats has learned to sit on the piano and flick the light switch on and off. Believe me at 3:00 in the morning it is quite a shock to wake up and see the lights flashing in the living room!</p>
<p>I don’t have cats, but I have to tell you, BB, I saw this thread heading on Search and your name under it, and boy, was it disconcerting at first glance!! ;)</p>
<p>CountingDown, ROFL!</p>
<p>Sounds like it’s time for “The Cat Whisperer”:p</p>
<p>One day I came home to find our cat watching soap operas, with his paw on the remote. Another time I found him happily stretched out in front of the fire in the middle of the night, and realized I had left the remote control to the fire where he could reach it. I can’t imagine he’s really that smart, considering he manages to be afraid of paper, and can’t get out of places he gets into on his own. But now we put the remotes away.</p>