I am not a morning person. It is inhumane to expect people to be up before noon. That is how coffee became my friend. My beautiful children do not understand this concept though. For those who don't know, my children are my dog and cat.
My cat has decided she is starving. Around 5:30 in the morning, my cat starts knocking things off my nightstand. Since I normally just roll over, she jumps on the bed and butts her head against me and nips at me. I have a routine where I pull the covers over my head and turn away from her. She has learned to start pushing my tv (weighs less than 10lbs) along its stand. That usually gets me up. Of course, I'm furious at this point. I eventually lay back down. She usually ends the morning by knocking my alarm clock off the night stand. This is every morning.
It gets worse on the few mornings I get to sleep in. My dog gets into the act. He jumps on the bed and tries to lick me to death. I can dive under the covers to avoid him. The problem is he starts barking at everything. At this point, I give up and get up to start my day.
This is very cruel. I love these animals and take care of all their needs. I wish I could explain to them how much I crave sleep in the morning.
So I'm sure others have horrible pet or children morning stories. Please feel free to share.
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7 comments:
Isn't it amazing how stubborn and entitled our furry four legged friends can be. Of course my "90" year old Rudi thinks the rug in the family room is his litter box. Why should he use the gravelly box, when he can use a rug that is worth hundreds of dollars - not any more it's not.
This is the one time where children are better than pets. Eventually children get old enough so that you can bribe or threaten them.
"If you let Mommy sleep until 8 tomorrow, we'll go to the movies."
or
"If you wake me up before 8, we'll spend the entire cleaning and NOT go to the movies!"
We used to have our three cats on a feeding schedule. They would eat three times a day. At one point, these times were fairly regular, though they started to get thrown off. They would get hungry and insistent for food and pull the antics like you described. We finally gave up and now leave food down for them all of the time. Granted, Jack Neck has put on several pounds since then, but at least they don't drive us crazy anymore.
Ask Kay about the time Lucky was meowing outside the bedroom door and she chased him downstairs and locked him in a crate at the top of the basement stairs. Well, don't bother asking because I'm going to tell you the whole thing anyway. So she goes back to bed an a few minutes later there is this crashing sound as Lucky edged the crate over and tipped it down the steps. After the crashing had stopped, Mom heard this pitiful little "meow?" from the basement and had to go get him. Poor traumatized kitty.
Imagine a 2-year old who loves garbage trucks. Imagine sleeping with your windows open to enjoy a perfect temperature. Imagine the trucks coming loudly down the alley at 5:30 a.m. or so. Imagine said 2-year old waking up and yelling "trash truck!" and having to get up and take him to the window to see the truck that's already gone by then. Imagine the 2-year old then whiney the rest of the day because he missed the trash truck and because he woke up way too early.
I'm convinced good sleep is more necessary to life than water.:)
Luckily my rabbit has abandoned the 3 am trashing of his cage! He's good about letting me sleep in but he gives me such a sad look when I leave for work--so I feel guilty if I don't get up early to hang out with him a bit. The hardest days are the days he follows me to the door . . .
Bartle is used to his routine. When I leave in the morning he is ok. But if I work the later shift, he gets upset. As soon as he sees me getting ready for work, he starts to whine. It's pathetic he's telling me, I pulled a bait-and-switch. He thought I was staying home when I was planning on leaving.
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