Do you have a furry alarm clock?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[Gold Metal Flake]

1. A dog only does that to me once.

After that they learn it's easier to bug mom.

[nolabear]

2. Mine's a cat. Bunny. We have to keep her out of the bedroom

or she tries to cram her whole head up my nose while whining, yes whining, "I'm HUUUUUUNGRY. This belly hasn't been rubbed all niiiiight. Moooooom? It's day; the sun's just late getting here. Mmmmmoooooooommmmm?"

[femmocrat]

3. Three of them!

I ignore them... hubby gets up with them at 5 a.m.

[Betty88]

9. I have 3 of them too

they work like a tag team starting at exactly 5:15 each morning

[pacalo]

4. My Boston Terrier plops across my chest & kisses me on the lips.

[csziggy]

5. Yes and locking the beast out of the room does not help

He's part Siamese and has that characteristic voice.

Hubby leaves for work at 7:30 AM and often the cat comes in when he leaves. If the door to the bedroom has not been left ajar - or if the one he wants to come through has not been - he will stand in the hall outside the door and yowl. It is impossible to ignore.

If a door has been left ajar, he will still announce his arrival just before he jumps on the bed and insists on scritches. I don't mind the scritches so much, but he likes to cuddle up close to my face and when he is happy he drools - a lot. And then he kneads the blanket. With his claws that can penetrate many layers of heavy blankets. He's a hard cat to cuddle.

[kimi]

6. Oh Yeah!!

But not in the morning. Every evening at 5 PM, sometimes 4:45, cats start lining up and take turns yowling at me to give them their nummies. One in particular, my Norwegian Forest Cat Kimi, will get right in my face and she has this very piercing "MRRAAAPPP-FFWWOOWW" that is impossible to ignore.

She does love her nummies. I mean, they all do, but Kimi is devoted to hers. It's like religion to a fundie for her.

[susanna]

7. My furry alarm clock story. :)

My late and much lamented squirrely girl (dog) was rescued at 5 weeks...WAY too young to be taken from her mother, but the fact was, she was given to me at a local convenience store...fast forward. The vet told us to feed her a brown rice/milk/lettuce paste and bowls of cream until she was weaned. So we did; usually about 9pm. So, moving on....

Every SINGLE DAY OF THAT DOG'S LIFE, I was expected at 9:30 pm to give her something milk or cream based (cheese was okay). If I didn't, you'd think the world had ended. So I did. For 12 years. I swear she wore a freaking watch.

We lost her almost three years ago (January). Miss her everyday. My big, gigantic furry alarm clock was the best.

[BrklynLiberal]

13. She sounds like she added a lot of love to your life......

[xchrom]

8. that's my Effie right there.

i'm a bad sleeper anyway -- but starting any where from three am on -- she will put her cold nose right in my ear.

i grumble for a while -- but then she'll actually get up and practically plop down right on top of me -- pretending to back to sleep.

oy

[Crystal Clarity]

10. I have the cat and dog BOTH pestering me

anywhere from 3am on depending on my SO's work schedule which alternates back and forth.

On the weeks he leaves the house at 3am, the dog and cat both get in bed w/me. Sometimes they'll go to sleep, but most of the time, they want me to get up right THEN so I can feed them.

I give in way more often then I should. Grrr!!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Alarm cats. Three of them.

Each has his/her own method of harassing me -- I can be tickled with whiskers, yowled at, stepped on, licked, or pawed. Or, things can start falling on the floor. Paper can crinkle and lamps can tip over. Sometimes several of these things happen at once. When the Gang of Fur is hungry in the morning I will not sleep for long.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. 6AM...Lucy lets me know it is time to take her for a walk.

If Lucy oversleeps, Cassie, the kitty is usually right there tapping my head with her paw to let me know it is time to get up..

[applegrove]

14. My little cat used to unleash her claws on my nose to wake me up to feed her. Now I let them graze.