This post makes me sound like a crazy cat lady, but whatever! :)
Everyone knows that I have the cutest cat in the world…Jabba the Hutt! Every morning at 5:11 am Jabba
wakes me up so he can eat. Every
morning. However, for some reason he
thinks that I will forget to wake up at that time and decides to try and let me
know it’s ‘almost time’ to feed him.
Starting at 4:30 am he does a few things to wake me up. He sits by my head and purrs really loud
(which always wakes me up), he touches his nose to my skin (which always wakes
me up), he sits on my chest or legs (which always wakes me up), or he jumps
over my head and moves the entire bed.
Each time I exclaim “Jabba, go nigh night!” which usually gets me a “Meow”
and a stomping to the end of the bed.
This is repeated 3-4 times within 45 minutes. At 5:11 am my alarm clock goes off and Jabba
goes nuts! He will not let me lay back
down in the bed after he hears the alarm.
You would think having a cat sit on you or jump over you
would not bother you too much, but nope!
Jabba is 26 lbs so he quite literally can stop you breathing or cut off
your circulation. When he jumps over
your head and shakes the entire bed, you
wake up. For the past two years I have
been dealing with Jabba doing this, but it has gotten progressively worse the
longer I have had him. I always wake up
and feed him, he never goes without a meal, so I am not exactly sure why he
feels the need to interrupt my sleep.
So instead of dealing with it forever, I decided to try and
train him not to do that. A few nights
ago I got so aggravated that I got out of bed and of course Jabba followed me,
once he was out of the room I shut the door so he couldn’t get back in. Does that sound mean? Well, sorry.
He was so confused and was just laying on the other side of the door and
scratching it. :/ At 5:11 am I got up
and fed him like I normally do, fed him, and got back in bed for another hour. I have never shut a door on him in the entire
two years that I have had him, so he was not happy. The next night he didn’t bother me at all
until I woke up at 5:11 to feed him. It
worked! I think he got the hint that I
didn’t want to woken up until the alarm went off. Hopefully it works from now on, but it might
take a few times for him to totally understand why I am doing it.
Hopefully I don’t sound mean, but I like to sleep and he
gets fed about 45 minutes later. #crazycatlady
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