It is not supper unless the cat has to be put off the table at least 6 times

[The Genealogist]

Is this true in anyone else's household? Maybe my cat is just weird. She also wakes me up at 2:00 in the morning to go down the hall and tell her to eat something. I am not making this up. Eula prances all over me til I get up, she leads me to her food bowl (with food in it), I tell her to eat (and she does), then I go back to bed.

[RKP5637]

1. Mine does the same in the morning and it's not good enough to just go down with him, I have

to stay while he eats or he comes back up and drags me out of bed again to stay with him while he eats.

[The Genealogist]

2. At least I don't have to do that!

She just wants me to tell her to eat.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Sometimes, I have to stir the kibble with my fingers for one of the cats.

He'll sit and look at it, then me, then back again, until I reach down into the bowl and scrunch the stuff for a second.

When I am not around, he requires no assistance, tho.

I have no idea where they come up with this stuff. they can be very alien, right?

[ChazInAz]

11. Similar experience

My Maine Coon, Natasha Krospina I, Empress Of All The Cats will insist that I shake her gravity-filled feeder a bit to make sure that the bottom of the dish is not visible. If I don't do so, she informs me (In Russian) that her dish is empty.
Savannah Cat Hastur The Unspeakable doesn't care. He's always ready to eat.
Natasha weighs twenty pounds, Hastur eleven. I have no idea how that happens.

[Myrddin]

13. Similar again?

Two Maine Coons (both Russian - they can ignore, fluently, in two languages) insist that any 'mog nuts' in the gravity feeder are poisonous if they are in contact with the bottom of the bowl. The Prince of Darkness will Yap to let me know that I have failed him. A quick shake, and with new nuts covering said poisonous ones, both will gorge themselves like they haven't eaten for a week. But the poisonous one must 'never' be touched.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. funny you mention Maine Coons...

I was reading up on the them when I realized our 2 kitties may be part Coon.
20 pounds is pretty average for that breed, they do not hit full weight/maturity till 4 years.
Our guys, brothers, are only 18 months or so, but hitting 13 pounds already. they do not look at all fat, either.

[matt819]

3. Maybe not six

Dogs too. We’re a seriously undisciplined household.

[Maraya1969]

4. I have a dog door and every once in a while my Chihuahua Paco somehow forgets that he

can just walk back in; or something else, I don't know.

So he stands outside the door and whines. I then go to the door to the lanai and open it slightly. He hears a door open and he come back in through the dog door.

He has also waked me up in the middle of the night and when I follow him out of the bedroom he grabs one of his stuffed squirrels and tries to get me to throw it!

Maybe they just feel lonely and want attention?

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. I am in tears...our penny, black cat btw...will not stop until we are up - she wants to be fed

when she says so...if we don't act right away, she will make noise from anything...or paw at us while we sleep..scratch our pillow...and best of all - snap at the dresser draw pull..and best of all 2 - boing boing boing the door stop..

Eula prancing all over you..yup..very normal....

Nope, not weird in a home with a kittah….but we wouldn't have it any other way....

[trixie2]

6. I always had a cat and no she did not go on tables

or any furniture that was not dedicated as hers. She could sit on an old tv and watch golf from above, she loved swatting the balls. She could lay at the foot of certain beds and had her own chair to lounge in. Other than that she never went on anything. She would beg for ham if she smelled it. She was particular about her food and water dishes. They had to be at a certain level and needed to be washed each day.

[Karadeniz]

7. Can you put Eula's good bowl beside your bed?

[Aussie105]

8. Stray cat now Boss_Cat

came in one day and decided to stay.
Now: 5 am, FEED ME!
6 am, LET ME OUT!

But he is getting better. Used to claw and gently bite to wake me, now he just licks the back of my head at 5 am.
Progress, of sorts.
Getting used to sleep deprivation. 8-(

Bullies the two dogs 10X his weight, too.

[3Hotdogs]

10. I have to lock ours in the bathroom when I am cooking.

[MontanaMama]

12. 16 year old Louis

meows his skinny old kitteh ass off at 4:15 am every single day. I now sit up in bed and sternly tell him that “it’s not time yet” and he will stop but still sits next to my side of the bed staring at me. While he is staring, he invades the personal space of my dog who will start to whine who can only stand it for so long so between the two of them, I’m frigging up WAY earlier than I need to be.

Fun fact...the first morning of daylight savings, Louis came in my room to meow at 4:15am...right on time. Somehow springing forward had no effect on his meowing schedule.

[Merlot]

15. My cat did the same thing, a 7am wake up call after time change.

Two days after time change he was back on the 7am schedule. He let me sleep in one day.