Thread: Are all Coonies early risers?

Winston has always woken early but over the last 2/3 weeks the trend has been now for him to demand play sessions at 5.10 a.m.
My concern is that as we live in an apartment, that his very loud early morning demands can be heard!

I now have to get up at 5.10 am so my husband can get some more sleep before getting up for work at 7am leaving me shattered by 11 am.
Meanwhile by 7.30 Winston has stopped his demands and settled down.

Is this all part of the package? A russian friend of mine has a Persian Cat and said that her kitty will not stir until they get up in the morning.

I'm often woken quite early with Simba jumping around on the bed, his nick name is Ping Pong as he is just like a ping pong ball in the morning on the bed. If we don't get up he tries my kids' rooms or goes downstairs, but as soon as I get out the bathroom in the morning he is sitting there waiting for me. The dogs are quiet in the morning until we stir so tend to ignore his playfulness until we get up even though he tries to get them up by pouncing on them and then hiding

Louie is fine its Holly (dog) we have a problem with she goes off at 6am everyday which is ok when OH is on days but not when he's on backshift Louie rushes off down with the dogs for some food then they all go back to sleep leaving me to clear up after them

we don't have that problem. Gryfn is still sleeping in till at least 7... but I'm sure that will change as dh goes back to work....

Sarah was terrible when I got her and used to wake me up putting her paws around my face and licking me at about 5.00am. After some firm discussions and time she now only does it on weekdays and when the alarm has gone off. Mind you today the alarm didnt go off and she waited til about 7.00am and did it ( just in case I should have been up)

I dont know how they differentiate weekdays from weekends but she does!!!

Oh how I long for him just to sleep for an extra 90 minutes

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....

Yes I've noticed they learn quickly... gryfn already knows where the teasers are....

Interesting to see how much all our coonies have in common

I guess normally it would not bother me as I was used to my parents outdoor cat waking us up early to be fed, but once that was done she went on her merry way.
What I'm a bit concerned with, is that I live in an apartment, and am worrying that Winston's early morning antics will be heard by neighbours. He had me up at 4.50 am today so I joined him in the dining room and went on the PC. He then fell asleep on the cat tree and I sneaked back to bed around 6. As soon as I pulled the duvet over my head, his lordship arrived at the door telling me "what did I think I was doing". I'm sure thats what he said

Should I have set more boundries and not allowed him to sleep in the bedroom to begin with?
As I write this he is all curled up on th rug and I'm bleary eyed whilst typing this!

poor you.
We let the cats sleep on our bed, but Gryfn didn't stay on our bed last night. I get the feeling that Charlie Brown has informed him he's not allowed to...
Charlie Brown is a bit of a bully. I'll be glad when he's snipped! But Charlie Brown has tried waking us early and we've just put our hand on him, given him a scratch and told him it's too early and go back to sleep and he's actually listened.