Conspiracy
Posted: Mon 23 April, 2007 Filed under: Animals, Domestic 4 Comments »There are times when I absolutely hate our animals. This weekend has been one of those times.
During the day, we’ve been up at the house working – Hound was with us for half of Saturday before coming home, and all of Sunday. Yet still at 5am each morning she’s started barking and being a pain in the arse until I’ve had to get up to find out what her problem is. Each time, it’s nothing. In fact, the only thing I can think of is that because of the conservatory on the house, the dawn chorus sounds really loud when I go into the living room, and maybe she’s barking at that.
However, with Psycho Cat it’s just that he’s a pain in the arse. He’s decided that he now needs to go back outside at about 4am, and because this place doesn’t have a cat-flap (and oh, man is that high on the purchase list for the new place!) he just sits and yells until I wake up to let him out. At 4am. Without fail.
About the only positive side is that if I simply strangle either of them, the odds are I won’t go to jail for it…
Hi Lyle. You’re right. It’s the birds to blame. And it’s logically impossible to train a creature not to wake you, if you think about it. I’m only in my second summer of cat-owning, but am getting resolved to the 6am feeding, and then back to sleep for me if I can manage. At least it’s better – much better – than losing a whole night listening for mice eating their way in.
Does Herself never tend to them in the wee small hours?!
i would keep the cat out all nite, and for hound i would gently push herself out of bed once and a while to tend to hound
Herself usually sleeps through the cat’s antics – as stated many times before, I tend to wake up upon the sound of a fly coughing – but for Hound she just yells at Hound from bed.
Which has the happy side effect of making sure I’m awake…