Stood over female staff’s head and got reallyreallyclose and meowed in her ear. Plus purred. She ignored me so I sat on the side of her head and let my floofy floofy tail rest across her face.
She’s not too keen on having my bottom side so close to her face (or my tail in her mouth) so she got up pretty quickly and BREAKFAST was served!
Love me, love my wake up strategies.
Felt the need to switch it up today. Turned my laser focus on male staff member this morning.
Conducted all basic elements of wake up tactic: MeowmeowmeowMEOWMEOWMEOW then floofy tail in his face. Finally, paw on forehead.
Later heard female staff say, “Romeo didn’t wake us up this morning!”
Male replied, “Oh YES he did! Grrr.”
Meow. Grin.
Tags: male staff member, Wake up TacticsYou may not know this but Pugsley is THE LOUDEST groomer EVER. He snorts and sneezes and gulps and slurps and generally makes so much noise that the whole house knows when he’s taking a bath. This morning, he decided to groom in the staff’s big bed. At 6 a.m.
Woah, Nellie, did HE get in trouble! He he. They couldn’t even blame me for waking them up today because it was so clearly the Pugman.
Of course, all he has to do is look cute and all is forgiven. Sigh.
Grooming action shot.
Stand in between sleeping female and male staff members. Meow at female staff member. Then, rotate. Meow at male staff member. Rotate. Meow at female staff member. Rotate. Meow at male staff member. Repeat process until one of those lazy fools gets up to get BREAKFAST.
Come on, people! It's Monday. LET'S GET MOVING.
MEYOOOOOOW! Run and jump on bed, right onto female staff member’s stomach. Launch off female staff’s stomach back onto floor but make sure you really dig in with hind paws. Run and chase something invisible (to everyone else) out in the hallway while Pugsley watches calmly from a distance.
Man, have some dignity.
The trick is to keep one eye slightly open so you know what's going on. Technically this is much less work. However, you do have to wait until they notice you haven’t gotten them up and sometimes if you’re really hungry this is hard to do.
I don’t think I have the willpower to sustain this one. But it worked today.
Tags: sleeping cat, Wake up TacticsPugs and I decided that since we get so many fabulous comments from readers about their genius wake up tactics, that we would dedicate Fridays to Guest Wake Up Strategists. Send your best wake up tactics to: romeo at romeothecat.com, along with a photo, and we will feature you on an upcoming Friday.
Today’s guest is Gabby, The Destruction Cat.
The Gabbinator
“My most successful method to date (and one I use quite frequently) is to jump on the headboard above my human mom’s head. I then remove the flowers from the decorative wall hangings on either side of the bed and drop them one at a time on her head. If that does not work, I simply just pounce on her and then get the heck out of the room – works everytime!!”
-Gabby, The Destruction Cat
Gabby: We love the art of dropping the decorative flowers one at a time. That is brilliant and I am sure makes it much more fun for you too! Thanks for submitting. xoxo, R&P
Who, moi?
Climb up on top of dresser (a bookcase or shelf will work just as well) and knock all items to the floor with paw or tail. Quickly jump down and pretend you were grooming.
P.S. I have carpets but I bet wood floors would make this uber-effective.
Tags: animal rescue, grooming, Wake up Tactics, wood floors
Here I am with the fruits of my labor.
The Big Pull tactic is quite brilliant as it not only yields choice words from staff but also provides fun toy to play with until the staff prepares BREAKFAST.
Tags: animal rescue, cat rescue, pony tail holder, Wake up Tactics
