10-12-2014, 08:21 AM
(10-12-2014, 02:59 AM)Catherine Wrote: You might get away with surprizing a cat with an early meal, before you go to bed. If you did that with a guinea pig or gave them extra veggies, they would eat them all and still be up and waiting for food at the regular morning breakfast time. I have at least tried to get my piggies to expect breakfast after they hear me get up. So if I wake up, I either have to lie there in the dark very still(no coffee in bed while I listen to the news) or I have to get up and feed them.
It was exactly that way with Misty. If I had woken up in the night, and come downstairs (especially in the early few years) -she would have followed me, got on her downstairs bed and expected me to make toast! Sometimes I did...and always gave her a little crunchy bit. She thought 'getting up at night means extra snacks'!
If ever I got up with indigestion, that was still no excuse! LOL
In the mornings, there was no lying in bed with her around. It was business as usual. Up....food....and outside to the orchard.
