Get out of bed now!

We have a small fish tank in the bedroom, with an eclipse top (it's a
plastic unit that has filter and lights built-in). It's not particularly
strong plastic, so we've trained the cats not to jump on it. The're
pretty good at staying off of it. Except Fez. In the mornings. When he
wants you to get out of bed. He just jumps on it and looks at you. I
yell "No!", but he doesn't move. I try again "Bad Fezie!", to no avail.
I get out of bed, and then he bolts out towards the kitchen. Breakfast
anyone?
Sigh.

--
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"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
...
We have a small fish tank in the bedroom, with an eclipse top (it's a
plastic unit that has filter and lights built-in). It's not particularly
strong plastic, so we've trained the cats not to jump on it. The're
pretty good at staying off of it. Except Fez. In the mornings. When he
wants you to get out of bed. He just jumps on it and looks at you. I
yell "No!", but he doesn't move. I try again "Bad Fezie!", to no avail.
I get out of bed, and then he bolts out towards the kitchen. Breakfast
anyone?
Sigh.

Freud mode on
Zoooo, Viktorrr, you zay you av zeeeze... felines... traint? I am of zee
opinion, Victorrr, zat zeez catz have U traint... Ya?

Freud mode off
--
Alan Erskine
We can get people to the Moon in five years,
not the fifteen GWB proposes.
Give NASA a real challenge

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:10:43 GMT, Victor Martinez
yodeled:

We have a small fish tank in the bedroom, with an eclipse top (it's a
plastic unit that has filter and lights built-in). It's not particularly
strong plastic, so we've trained the cats not to jump on it. The're
pretty good at staying off of it. Except Fez. In the mornings. When he
wants you to get out of bed. He just jumps on it and looks at you. I
yell "No!", but he doesn't move. I try again "Bad Fezie!", to no avail.
I get out of bed, and then he bolts out towards the kitchen. Breakfast
anyone?
Sigh.

Stinky is very good about this, but my late cat Mimi, was an absolute
fiend about getting me out of bed. Her tactic was to knock things
over, and push things off of whatever they were sitting on, onto the
floor. She was a teeny little thing, and some of the things she
knocked over were bigger than her. She would start small, with
hairbrushes and combs, and work up to the clock radio, the telephone,
and my computer keyboard. The small things, she would just push with
her paw; the larger things, she would get behind, and push with her
head.





Theresa
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal
claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
(Aldous Huxley)

"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
...
We have a small fish tank in the bedroom, with an eclipse top (it's a
plastic unit that has filter and lights built-in). It's not particularly
strong plastic, so we've trained the cats not to jump on it. The're
pretty good at staying off of it. Except Fez. In the mornings. When he
wants you to get out of bed. He just jumps on it and looks at you. I
yell "No!", but he doesn't move. I try again "Bad Fezie!", to no avail.
I get out of bed, and then he bolts out towards the kitchen. Breakfast
anyone?
Sigh.


Dakota's trick is to throw my glasses on the floor. Once
I used to leave the spectacle case open, but no more. Good
strong spec case, shut, every night, or I'll be replacing a
very expensive pair of glasses.


--
Jette Goldie

Apache and Dakota
http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kitties.html

Alan Erskine wrote:

"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
pretty good at staying off of it. Except Fez. In the mornings. When he
wants you to get out of bed. He just jumps on it and looks at you. I
yell "No!", but he doesn't move. I try again "Bad Fezie!", to no avail.
I get out of bed, and then he bolts out towards the kitchen. Breakfast
anyone? Sigh.

Freud mode on
Zoooo, Viktorrr, you zay you av zeeeze... felines... traint? I am of
zee opinion, Victorrr, zat zeez catz have U traint... Ya?
Freud mode off

LOL!! Exactly! Victor, you *must not* give him breakfast after he does
this - or he will never stop!! You're just rewarding the bad kitty!

Joyce

wrote:
LOL!! Exactly! Victor, you *must not* give him breakfast after he does
this - or he will never stop!! You're just rewarding the bad kitty!

They don't get breakfast right after we get out of bed, we've learned
that lesson. We make them wait until it's breakfast time. But that
doesn't deter Fez. He's determined to rule our house with an iron paw.

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Victor Martinez wrote:

They don't get breakfast right after we get out of bed, we've learned
that lesson. We make them wait until it's breakfast time. But that
doesn't deter Fez. He's determined to rule our house with an iron paw.

Hmm... In my house, that would get the little b*st*rd kicked out of
the bedroom, with the door closed. But I guess that's harder to do in
a house of 7 cats than it is in mine. My 3 are remarkably adaptable
about being shut out of the bedroom. I often have to kick them out at
the 4-hour mark (which is when I wake up to pee, after about 4 hours
of sleep), because that's when they seem to want to play, have face-offs
with each other, tromp around my nightstand, or rattle the blinds
peering out the window, which is right next to my head. Out they go!
(Except maybe Roxy or Smudge, who is innocently sleeping on my bed -
that cat will get to stay. Licky, BTW, is *never* the "good" one. )

I know most people can't toss their cats out of the bedroom and close
the door, or the cats will howl outside the door and sleep won't be
any easier. I guess I just got lucky. And it really is dumb luck - it's
certainly not due to my brilliance at cat-training! They just go hang
out in some other spot in the house until I get up. I love my cats to
death, but I can't function if sleep-deprived.

Joyce

I once had a fish - emphasis on once. Had him here in a tank on my
dresser for six days before Elmo made his move. Bam! There goes fish and
tank on the floor. I scoop the fish back in the tank and run downstairs to
put in more water. Leave fish on top of dishwasher, thinking since I'm in
the next room Elmo won't bother him. Ha! Five minues later Bam! Once
again scoop up fish and save his butt again. This time I stuck fish and
tank on a shelf in my bedroom closet, which as bi-fold doors. This worked
for a few weeks, then 6:00 one morning there's the by-now familiar bam!
Elmo figured out how to open the door, little sneak. After that I gave up,
scooped the fish back up and gave him to my neighbors daugter where he could
not be hunted by the cat. Poor fish probably ended up with a few gray
scales after all that!

JoJo
http://home.comcast.net/~zookeepr/fosters.html

"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
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We have a small fish tank in the bedroom, with an eclipse top (it's a
plastic unit that has filter and lights built-in). It's not particularly
strong plastic, so we've trained the cats not to jump on it. The're
pretty good at staying off of it. Except Fez. In the mornings. When he
wants you to get out of bed. He just jumps on it and looks at you. I
yell "No!", but he doesn't move. I try again "Bad Fezie!", to no avail.
I get out of bed, and then he bolts out towards the kitchen. Breakfast
anyone?
Sigh.

--
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He's got you well-trained, Victor! Oreo and Robin do the honors in my
house; first Oreo purrs her little heart out and walks all over me and then
if that doesn't work, Robin vaults up onto the headboard of the bed right
above my head and that does work because he is not the most coordinated cat
and I have this fear of a hefty black furball landing on my head!
Christine
"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
...
We have a small fish tank in the bedroom, with an eclipse top (it's a
plastic unit that has filter and lights built-in). It's not particularly
strong plastic, so we've trained the cats not to jump on it. The're
pretty good at staying off of it. Except Fez. In the mornings. When he
wants you to get out of bed. He just jumps on it and looks at you. I
yell "No!", but he doesn't move. I try again "Bad Fezie!", to no avail.
I get out of bed, and then he bolts out towards the kitchen. Breakfast
anyone?
Sigh.

--
Victor Martinez
Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)
Send your spam he
Email me he

"Victor Martinez" wrote in message
...
We have a small fish tank in the bedroom, with an eclipse top (it's a
plastic unit that has filter and lights built-in). It's not particularly
strong plastic, so we've trained the cats not to jump on it. The're
pretty good at staying off of it. Except Fez. In the mornings. When he
wants you to get out of bed. He just jumps on it and looks at you. I
yell "No!", but he doesn't move. I try again "Bad Fezie!", to no avail.
I get out of bed, and then he bolts out towards the kitchen. Breakfast
anyone?
Sigh.

Yup, once they know what gets you out of bed, they will keep on doing it.
It was the same way with me when Vino was chewing the electrical cords. It
worked like a charm to get me out of bed in an instant, and Vino knew it!
But ever since I applied the tabasco sauce, he has not chewed once :-)
Britta - 1 Vino- 9587 and counting...
It so funny though, I've noticed that Vino can tell time extremely
accurately. Every morning at precisely 6 am, he starts his first attempt to
wake me up. This attempt is fortunately half-hearted and he usually settles
back down after 5 minutes. But then, at exactly 8:30, he starts up again.
Now that he can't chew the cords, he scrapes his claws on the headboard and
meows into my ear from a distance of 1 inch. That's ok though because 8:30
is when I want to be getting up anyway. I am just amazed at how he gets the
times the same every day, but only in the morning. You'd think he'd know by
now that dinner time is at 5 pm...but nooooooo, he has to start bugging me
for it at 3:30!
--
Britta
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album