Thread: Are all Coonies early risers?

Our four also tend to get up around 5am (depends a bit on sunrise). However they have gotten pretty good about letting us sleep. Some of them will visit us, but none really do too much to wake us up (beyond walking on bed or us briefly). The kittens early on will generally keep sleeping, but then they get to be the worst for a while, until they get a bit older. If we try to sleep past 7:30-8am now the 9mos old will walk around the bedroom crying, but I expect that will improve.

As for getting up at 5:10 to play...I have to say that are just reinforcing that behavior and you are going to be doomed. We have found that they are very quick to begin to expect to always do something they enjoy once you repeat it even just a couple of times. My wife started playing with the 9mos old with a teaser once when he went and looked up at where they are stored and cried out, and he now goes and sits and cries beneath them half a dozen times a day! It seemed so cute at first, but now....