annoying felines

Hi intheclouds, welcome to mylot and enjoy your stay here. I had a cat and a dog that do that. They wake me up at 7 to feed them lol. It was good for me because I never waked up later lol.
Have a nice day and welcome.

You are not alone. My cats are sisters and they seem to hate each other most of the time. Occasionally we catch them sleeping together which leads us to believe that deep down they love each other. They are indoor cats and one is more dominant than the other and we always find scratches on the less dominant one so we think they have a love/hate relationship. This morning one of them woke me up at 0530 to tell me she was hungry. Meanwhile the other was in the living room trying to kill my plants. I think your cats must be normal or mine too are abnormal!

I have a Josie alarm clock. She also tells me when I should go to bed. I love it. I enjoy catering to her wishes. She is usually right about bedtime, and she has learned that when she wakes me too early, I just grab her and hug her. She sings me to sleep with her purr also.

The other three generally ignore me except when it's food time.

You aren't alone with your cats waking you up. I used to have that problem too until I put out a self feeder with their dry cat food in it. Cats are quite different from dogs, and they won't eat themselves sick like a dog would do if you tried the same thing.

Cats are nocturnal by nature, as this is the time that their prey comes out; namely mice and other creatures. So, if they don't find something to hunt, they choose to wake us up for entertainment and attention.

I have a pair of brothers, and they are close in action as your pair. Willy is a chunky guy and laid back and sleeps a bunch, while his brother Khuay is slim and very active. They have gotten to the point where they don't wake me up at night, they sleep on opposite sides of my bed. Thankfully they sleep!!! They used to get up on my head board on my bed and leap onto my stomach at night. Talk about rude awakenings!!!! LOL!! I started keeping them up during the day, which really helped calm them down at night. Also, I have two other cats which are very calm and don't pester me at night.

Also, remember in the feline world, the female is the hunter and the male is "King" and is there for breeding. Hence the phrase "Lazy as a tom cat". He is just being a normal male cat--at least he isn't kicked back in the recliner drinking beer, eating chips and dogs and belching, while watching the "game" on television!!! LOL Too bad we can't adjust our cats to be alarm clocks and wake us up at the time we "want" to get up...

So, don't feel alone about the cats and how they act, they are; believe it or not; normal.

lol your cats are so cute. my cats would be annoying sometimes too. i've got three cats at home. one is a domestic shorthair girl who is the one in my avatar. one is a domestic longhair boy and the last a cross between a russian blue and a burmese. the longhair boy hates closed doors. he'd meow and meow whenever we close our bedroom door. if he is in, he'd meow to be let out. less than five minutes he'll meow to be let in again. he can do this all night long. so now we don't close our bedroom door at all. my girl will wake me up if she is bored. not in the middle of the night though. she'd see the sun come in and decide that it's time for me to wake up.

You must see this video cartoon. I just think it is so funny. We have three cats and one of them acts just exactly like this.
http://video.aol.com/vide...

Our dog also wakes us up but he usually does it by "talking" to us or even odder, "sneezing" to get us to pay attention to him when we would rather sleep.