Funny stuff your pets do to wake you up.
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To be fair, I used to handle her a lot so I got used to her. At least while awake. She was a beautiful snake. When holding her she'd regularly stretch out towards your eyes and nose and flick her tongue against them, only to recoil and wriggle down your arm. It was like; "Yep, still too big to eat..."Happyninja42 said:
It's different when you fall asleep though. Your rational brain is like; "She'll hiss a bit if you nudge her ... so long as you don't wriggle your toes or fingers she won't strike." But when you're exhausted and fallen asleep unexpectedly, that part of your brain goes on hiatus. So when you feel something slither towards you and suddenly hiss in that low warning tone you kind of just freeze up and remember that a predator is sharing your bed with you.
So yeah, I can empathise.
Yeah I've enjoyed snakes in my past, I remember being at a summer camp, and going to their reptile house. They got out one of the snakes and let us handle it, and I remember it slid inside my shirt and curled around my chest, licking my armpit. It wasn't a constrictor, it was just enjoying a comfy warm spot. I had a friend in college that had a constrictor, and I would handle it just fine. But while I'm asleep? And prone to moving around a lot while sleeping? Possibly startling the snake and having it strike at me as I roll over on it? Naaah, I'll pass. I mean I had something like that happen in college with my friend's snake. I was crashing there that night, and was shaking out a blanket to lay on the floor, next to her cage. And the sudden movement of the fabric in the dark freaked her out, so she struck at it violently, hitting the edge of the tank she was in. Freaked me out, as it was the only time I saw her act violent. I mean I understood why she did it, but it still freaked me out. xDPaulH said:
My rabbit is a *****. If I sleep in too late, or its storming out, or she's hungry or its Wednesday she wakes me up by hoping onto my bed, going to my head and either pulling on my hair with her teeth(hungry) or just scratching me until I wake up. Occasionally she'll lick my hand until I move it, at which point she snuggles under the hand wants waits for head rubs.
Turns out a bunny will do just about anything for head rubs or a fresh banana.
Turns out a bunny will do just about anything for head rubs or a fresh banana.
Most of the animals I've had were pretty good but the last 2 were buggers as youngins.
My cat required a good ear massage/jaw scratch before I was allowed to sleep and if said massage was not long enough he would let me know by biting me on the forehead when I stopped and closed my eyes. He strikes like a snake too but thankfully he grew out of it and now I only get bit if I pat him too long. I love 'em but cats are evil.
My rottie required a mid sleep play fight as a puppy. I would awake to a face of hot breath at 1-2 am and her eyes would light up (It's fun time!!!) when I opened mine. I'd tire her out after 15 minutes and then she'd go back to sleep again. Never loved an animal as much as her, and only blood relatives equally. She was a beautiful soul.
My cat required a good ear massage/jaw scratch before I was allowed to sleep and if said massage was not long enough he would let me know by biting me on the forehead when I stopped and closed my eyes. He strikes like a snake too but thankfully he grew out of it and now I only get bit if I pat him too long. I love 'em but cats are evil.
My rottie required a mid sleep play fight as a puppy. I would awake to a face of hot breath at 1-2 am and her eyes would light up (It's fun time!!!) when I opened mine. I'd tire her out after 15 minutes and then she'd go back to sleep again. Never loved an animal as much as her, and only blood relatives equally. She was a beautiful soul.
My cat has been gone for almost a year now, but she used to push open my bedroom door, walk up to my bed and meow loudly until I woke up. When I finally got out of bed she'd just leave to go sleep somewhere. Not sure why she did that, however I suspect it was a shift change or something. Worst were the mornings when I had the door closed completely. She'd start pummeling at it like obsessed until I flew up to open it... Then she'd walk away.
Cats: because when looking for companionship, humanity turned to the animal most like itself, a collection of pompous sadistic assholes who given the chance will literally do nothing all day.Street Halo said:
Also if anyone has a terrier, you know that even if you can ignore their barking, your brain won't let you go back to sleep being they'll knock something over while jumping around the house like living pogo sticks
I actually have a reverse story to tell!
Back when I was a mongrel by family and I kept a cat (I don't want to say owned because that bastard owned us more than we owned him). Through a combination of determination and trail-and-error, he managed to figure out which button my dad's alarm clock was the 'snooze' and he'd literally spent ten minutes or more sitting on the nightstand in my parent's bedroom, hitting the snooze every time the alarm went off. My dad was late for many a workday because of that cheeky bugger.
In hindsight I'm not sure if I miss him or not. Villainous monster was almost more trouble than he was worth...
Back when I was a mongrel by family and I kept a cat (I don't want to say owned because that bastard owned us more than we owned him). Through a combination of determination and trail-and-error, he managed to figure out which button my dad's alarm clock was the 'snooze' and he'd literally spent ten minutes or more sitting on the nightstand in my parent's bedroom, hitting the snooze every time the alarm went off. My dad was late for many a workday because of that cheeky bugger.
In hindsight I'm not sure if I miss him or not. Villainous monster was almost more trouble than he was worth...
This has changed with her age, but my cat Isis (named after the supreme Egyptian Goddess) used to paw at the door by reaching under it and pulling it so that it would rattle, since obviously first thing in the morning or in the middle of the night this is quite annoying for everyone in the house.
When she got older, she would do the headbutt thing, purr and chirp, and then wait until she did it again.
Now that she's getting even older, it's usually just hairballs or sometimes she will lay on the edge of my pillow working her way more and more onto it until she completely dominates said pillow.
When she got older, she would do the headbutt thing, purr and chirp, and then wait until she did it again.
Now that she's getting even older, it's usually just hairballs or sometimes she will lay on the edge of my pillow working her way more and more onto it until she completely dominates said pillow.
I used to have a cat that spent most of its time outdoors, and when it wanted to come inside in the middle of the night, it would wake us up either by jumping on the screen outside one of our bedroom windows and scratching the screen to annoy us awake, or, and I shit you not, would actually jump up and hit the doorbell multiple times until someone got up and let him back inside. Miss that cat but sometimes it was annoying as hell haha.
When it was a kitten, my current cat liked to wake me up by biting my nose. Admittedly, he liked to sleep on/against my face, so he may have just been going for the closest bit he could fit his mouth around.
There was also the time he decided to try sleeping across my mouth and nose. So instead of being a fuzzy neck warmer or earmuff, he was trying to smother me.
When he got a bit older, he started imitating my alarm. A series of short meows at the same pitch and timing as my alarm clock.
Nowadays, he typically just lets me sleep.
There was also the time he decided to try sleeping across my mouth and nose. So instead of being a fuzzy neck warmer or earmuff, he was trying to smother me.
When he got a bit older, he started imitating my alarm. A series of short meows at the same pitch and timing as my alarm clock.
Nowadays, he typically just lets me sleep.
Hah! That's awesome. My cats freak out when the alarm goes off, and leave the room. My eldest cat Princess Luna (named by my god daughters when they got the kitty initially before I inherited it), likes to sleep on me. I tend to sleep on my side, so she will climb up and settle down on my hip, and just sleep there until I roll over. Usually it's right before I have to wake up anyway, so she doesn't stay on very long before the alarm goes off. I've yet to have either of them try and turn off the alarm, but they will hop up on that same night stand and knock stuff off to get my attention. Trying to find my glasses in the morning is always an adventure thanks to them.Silverbeard said:
My youngest kitty, likes to drag himself along the carpet. He LOVES getting his belly rubbed, and when you're rubbing it, he will stretch out luxuriously because it just feels SO GOOD, and hook his claws in the carpet...then drag himself a few inches along the floor. Keep rubbing, he'll keep doing this "stretch, hook, drag" routine, until he's moved several feet. He's found he can do this on the underside of our bed too, and basically pretends he's some rock climber or something, and hooks his claws in the box spring of our mattress, and drags himself around, making this horrendous popping noise as he pulls out his claws. Plus it tends to shake the bed a bit as he does it. Annoying little bugger. xD He's lucky he's super adorable, and has head fur that makes him look like David Bowie from Labyrinth.
Years back, I had this cat Azure. Wickedly smart, when I was in high school she figured out a great way to wake me up at five in the morning: by sitting on my head and meowing in my face. Didn't entirely work for her though, as when awoken, she didn't always feel the need to get off my head, and there's no way I'd ever feel the need or be in the mood to feed her that early.
I had one cat that used to climb above my pillow and then take all 4 paws on my hair and twist and turn about like crazy messing up my hair so when I got up my hair was all crazy on top of my head. Another cat I had would climb on my chest and get in my face and rub his head on my face and if that didn't wake me up, he bit my nose once and scared the crap out of me. One of my cats now runs across the bed stomping like a panicked elephant, the other one climbs on top my face and purrs and licks my face at head.
Yea one of my cats is obsessed with electronics. Always pushing buttons on everything turning things on and off, making the printer spit out paper, changing the channels on TV..Silverbeard said:
One of my cats opens doors and traps his brothers inside rooms. If the door is locked and he can't get in he starts trying to dig a hole under the door and if there is a gap, he will stick his paws under the door and grab throw rugs and pull them or anything else he can reach under the door. One of the cats I used to have used to throw himself against the door like he thought he was going to break it down. It scared the crap out of me because he was literally trying to bust the door down to get in if I closed it.TizzytheTormentor said:
When I had a pet, he was incapable of waking people up. Not because he didn't need to go out in the morning or anything, he just didn't put two and two together that we have to be up to take care of him. So he'd sit in the dining room until we got up. If nobody got to him in time, sometimes there'd be a mess.
I loved that dog but the ONE time barking in the house would have been nice. He just didn't bark though.
I loved that dog but the ONE time barking in the house would have been nice. He just didn't bark though.