How does your Cat wake you up?

[cassiesmom]

My Cassie wakes me up by placing her front paws on any available paper in the room and tearing it with her teeth. She knows that will awaken me and I will then be able to respond to whatever she wants (food, petting, play time, whatever). If I awaken first, she will find her way to me when she hears the sound of the cat food can snapping open, or sometimes not at all. She is in charge of our flat.

[catgurl]

My cat Pretty Princess is a princess!!! In the morning she will lick my eyelids and she will kiss me until i wake up. And if I dont wake up and turn over she will paw at me until i do wake up. And it hurts really bad cause she isnt declawed. So that goes to show CATS ARE WEIRD!!! But dispite her weirdness we love her very much!!!

[Husky15]

Well Bobo doesn't wake anyone up - he sleeps with them as long as he can lol! But for me sometimes CC meows and I wake up with a cat in my face, or he jumps on my bed and headbutts me. But sometimes he waits for me to wake up myself and then runs up and says his good mornings.

[Gin]

Striker has his Feline Paper Torture routine; he will take up a position beside the bed and tear mail order catalogs into tiny pieces until I get up and conduct him to the bedroom door. Once locked out, he will rattle the doorknob, rattle the door on its hinges, and cry pitifully until I get up.

Sassy just sits and stares. If I pull the covers over my head, he will daintily reach under the covers and claw me on the nose.

Missy doesn't wake me up at all. There are "people" to do that.

[gracieally]

My girls don't usually wake me up. On rare occasions when their dry food is low and they feel they can't survive another 30 minutes they will be so rude and wake me up. On these mornings Ally will just sit next to me on the bed and stare at me. If I ignore her and turn over and try to go back to sleep, she'll just jump to my face side and continue staring. After awhile she'll lose her patience and will smack me in the face with her paw. Of course, I have to get up then. Gracie is less subtle. She'll usually do something loud and obnoxious to get her meal. Yesterday she puked! That go me up FAST!