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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

2200.0. "SWEET REVENGE" by AWARD1::HARMON () Fri Feb 03 1989 11:53

    How many of you have woken up in the morning with your fur face
    at the foot of your bed, leaned down to give a pat, snuggle or kiss
    good morning only to be greeted by one eye opening and a look as
    if to say "You WOKE me UP.....I WANT to SLEEP!"?  I've done that
    to Schnitzel and gotten that response.  However, this morning she
    got her revenge!
    
    It was still dark out, the alarm hadn't gone off and I have a grey
    furry face licking my hand, trying to get her head under my hand
    so I'd pat and scratch her, and purring away to beat the band! 
    I sort of woke up and told her she was cute, but it wasn't time
    to get up, so go back to sleep.  She persisted 'til I was wide awake.
    So I patted and scratched and snuggled, told her she was cute but
    it was time to get more sleep.  She seemed satisfied, curled up
    in by my head in her pretzel pose and purred us back to sleep.
    
    P.
    
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2200.1"'Morning Mom"MORGAN::MISSELHORNFri Feb 03 1989 12:3412
    We usually keep the bedroom doors closed at night since all 3
    kitties take over the bed and I'm too soft to move them (I end up
    sleeping all twisted or in a ball).  It drives Bruce crazy that
    I sacrifice a good night's sleep for the cats.
    
    Anyway, we have a radio alarm and as soon as it goes off, the
    crew is at the door scratching and whimpering to get in.  Once let
    in (usually by Bruce), Melody jumps on the bed, walks up to my
    face and sticks her nose right up to my nose and purrs.  Sometimes,
    if she is real hungry, she walks around the pillow and talks.
    Other times she sits on top of my stereo speaker and just stares
    at me.
2200.2Wake up! Noowww!SWAT::COCHRANEScattering like light.Fri Feb 03 1989 12:5514
    The crew stays in the basement during the night, since I have asthma
    and four of them on the bed all night would probably kill me.  My
    husband gets up first, and they are all waiting at the door for
    him when he lets them up.  Dream, Charm and Niniane immediately
    come upstairs for cuddles with Mom.  If I'm not quite awake, Dream
    jumps on the bed, walks over to me, looks me right in the face and
    says, "AIOW!!", once, very loudly.  My own personal alarm!  Dream
    gets first cuddles, then Charm, then Niniane.  Then they leave and
    Boogie jumps up on the bed and announces her presence by walking
    on my face. 
    
    What a bunch!!!
    
    Mary-Michael
2200.3Sneaking around...CURIE::SADLER_TEMPFri Feb 03 1989 13:4314
    We used to keep our bedroom shut to Kitty-Lou, so that she wouldn't
    come in in the morning to tell us it was time to get up.  In the
    summer she always got up with the birds, and thus woke us up to
    tell us the birds were up.  But in the winter the birds would get
    up late, Kitty-Lou would get up late, and we would be the first
    to get up.
    
    So when we awoke, we had to whisper, tiptoe, etc. if we wanted
    solitude.  The minute Kitty-Lou heard us, it was scratch, scratch,
    meow, meow, LET ME IN THERE!!  She would be really embarassed when
    we got as far as the living room when WE woke HER up.  Then she would
    squint, smile, and say to herself:  "I wasn't REALLY sleeping, and I
    was only PRETENDING not to hear you sneaking up on me! --silly humans..."
                                                      
2200.4Portia and Elmo should take lessons from OscarWITNES::HANNULARound Up the Usual SuspectsFri Feb 03 1989 15:3614
    Elmo is definitely a morning cat.  As soon as it's past midnight,
    Elmo lets us know that it is NOW morning.  Elmo's routine is a series
    of walks around the bed, of course always stopping to start in on
    his sucking.  At around 3:00 AM, he usually gets thrown outside.  
    Portia then starts in around 5:00 AM.  Her routine settles around a 
    jingle bell toy that she got from Santa - she always finds a way
    to bat that thing UP the stairs to our bedroom.  She's usually thrown
    outside by 5:15.  Oscar is the only cat with any class.  He waits
    until we are up, and when I'm getting dressed, he wil saunter in
    to the bedroom and start rolling around on the bed with the "Pat
    Me" look in his eyes.  Of course, I always end up giving him a morning
    cuddle session.
    
    	-Nancy
2200.5He's the only one who isn't thrown out!REDWOD::GRAFTONFri Feb 03 1989 17:207
    
    <  Oscar is the only cat with any class.  ....
    <  Of course, I always end up giving him a morning cuddle session.  
    
    Sounds like Oscar is the smart one of the bunch!
    
    Jill
2200.6Good thing my SO doesn't read this file ;')PMROAD::HANNULARound Up the Usual SuspectsMon Feb 06 1989 07:584
    Of course Oscar is the smart one of the bunch - he's the only one
    who took after his mother as opposed to his father.
    
    	-Nancy