Persey is weird. She cries in the morning for me to feed her, even if there's still plenty of food in her dish, but she doesn't go for treats. She even turned her nose up at tuna water.

I feed her Iams because they gave us all kinds of free stuff when we adopted her so I'm rewarding them with brand loyalty.

DAMN YOU, FRANKENBUDDHA!!!

My cat yowls and scratches at things (and threatens to knock things off my night table) until I get up in the morning -- even if there's food in her bowl. What is that about?

He's bored.

and misery demands company ....

She only gets bored at 6 in the morning?

Hey, do we have a washingtonpost.com login?

One of our cats will yowl and/or tap us to wake us up if he's bored. He just wants petting and talking to and then he's cool. The other cat basically doesn't care to be entertained by us and would rather look at birds out the window if she's bored. However, if the foodbowl is empty then she has only one goal in life--making us fill it.

It's on top of the washer by the back door, and last night when J took the dogs for a walk, she sat there when he left, yowling at him. She was in the exact same spot when he got back and started complaining and bapping him with her paw as soon as he opened the door.

He just wants petting and talking to and then he's cool.

That's the weird thing, though -- she doesn't like to be petted. She basically just wants me to go out to the living room. Past that, she doesn't seem to care, just as long as I get out of bed and leave the room.

Our cat seems to like to eat best when we're in the kitchen. He'll sort of herd us in there and *then* eat. Weird.

He also likes to watch when Sara is in the bathtub. Also weird.

Cats = weird, I think.

Emily, do you regularly get up at 6? Cats are very much creatures of habit. So if yours is used to you getting up at 6, she may worry when you sleep in.