What do our pets do at night?

[KathiCville]

My furry baby always slept on the bed with me until recently; now she seems to find the floor/rug more comfortable as she's gotten older. Sam always starts out the night on the bed, however, and seems to have an uncanny knack for either stepping on or laying on the tv's remote control.

Even when she's on the floor, Sam's still close enough that I can hear her "chasing rabbits" in her sleep (paws moving rapidly; little grunts; fast breathing) and catch the occasional snore......Might sound goofy, but I'm happy just hearing her breathe when she's fast asleep---a very soothing, rhythmic sound in the night when everything else is quiet. [Did I mention that I adore her, LOL??!]

[sundial]

I looked at dialed calls and sure enough! Whiskers made the call.

LOL!! One time I was taking stuff to the dump and my australian shepherd went with me to *help*. The dump guy who helped me unload stuff mutters like the character on King of the Hill. I had joked about it to hubby that morning before going to the dump and wouldn't you know, while I was unloading trash, Jodi's toenail pressed voicemail button and it recorded dump man's conversation, LOL!

[SouthernBelle]

Miss Kitty doesn't like to sleep with me; she likes to sleep on me. This gets uncomfortable in short order even though she's small. I can distract her to sleep on a pillow. But she gets quite offended when I move and disturb her slumber.

[roadie gal]

Cameron, the smooth collie, sleeps peacefully in his corner all night.

Toby, the rough collie, rolls and paces and groans all night.

Houston (We Have A Problem), the male cat, goes under the covers on the bed, then goes out, then wants back, then goes out... repeat all night...

Riley, the female cat, sleeps on my bladder. The fuller my bladder, the happier the cat.

[DDH]

I believe mine two dogs just sleep, unless they need to go out, well the German Shepard anyway, the little one never usually bothers us.
The big guy will pace and then stand there and stare at you. I don't know why he won't whine or something, but he doesn't he just stares you down until you wake up. It's a freaky thing to wake to. LOL

Luckily he doesn't do it very often cause I try to make sure I let them out one last time before bed.

[Starfish]

I have the perfect cat. She's 16, and we've been together through it all.

She starts out the night curled up next to me, purring and cuddling. Then, after she sleeps there for awhile, some time in the night she moves over to her cat bed which is on a chair next to my bed. This is the perfect solution, because then if she wakes during the night for a bath, etc, she doesn't wake me up with all the movement.

I have a very soft, warm sweater in her bed as a liner, and if I wake up in the night, I will take both sleeves of the sweater and fold them over her so she is all tucked in and toasty. She loves this, and I'll wake up the next morning and she will still be all tucked in, sound asleep.

[jesvetmed]

Reading these are great for a smile over my morning coffee. Aren't pets the best!? For some of you, I'd highly recommend a squirt gun for a couple of nights -- that worked to stop my cat from pouncing on my various parts or trying to wake me to play through the night!

Now, I have an older lab (don't tell her she's older -- 10 is YOUNG), but she sleeps very soundly, and luckily only the soft rhythmic breathing -- no snoring. But she does chase rabbits (or birds) off and on. She wakes for nothing as long as DH is home... that is HIS job. When he isn't there she is "on duty" and barks at everything!

The cat usually just settles as close to my legs as possible (she's quite fond of any source of body heat!). She'll sleep till 6am, then it's time to get up -- weekend or not!

Jes

[RolliePollie]

My cats have stepped on the speaker phone button before, but they've never actually called anyone (that I know of!). They are also good at stepping on the remote and turning on the TV.

One of my cats sleeps on top of me in bed, but I know she leaves at some point during the night because I always wake up with some strange household item in bed with us. This cat is a nut. She steals stuff and carries it all over the house. I might wake up with the kitchen sponge on me, or maybe a belt, or even a card or photo that I had hanging on my bulletin board in the office. And of course, these things are always a little chewed on. She is really a very high maintenance cat. But she's very entertaining.

My other cat is obsessed with my right arm. If I sit on the couch, she's laying on my right arm. If I'm on the computer, she's laying on my right arm (yes, she's here now...I've become very proficient at typing with one hand). Sometimes she'll sleep on it at night. Other times she sleeps in front of the fire curled up in a perfect cirle. The right arm thing is weird...she has no interest in my left arm at all. And if she's on my arm, I better not disturb her or she'll bite me.

[7rider]

If my two bunz could get to the phone...they'd probably be on the phone to Pizza Hut...."Hello? I'd like to order a large Veggie Lovers', thin crust. Extra veggies. Hold the cheese!"

But...my guys are in their room at night...put to bed with a large salad, fresh hay, and water. They munch all night, knock the salad tray around, snooze under their tents. And around 6 a.m., they set up camp at the door gate, waiting for me to come down with their morning piece of banana and salad.

[invsblwmn]

One of my cats sleeps on top of me in bed, but I know she leaves at some point during the night because I always wake up with some strange household item in bed with us. This cat is a nut. She steals stuff and carries it all over the house. I might wake up with the kitchen sponge on me, or maybe a belt, or even a card or photo that I had hanging on my bulletin board in the office.

OMG, you made me remember the "gifts" Cooper and Emma used to bring to me in the middle of the night. I had an older home in the woods. One night I woke to the creepiest very loud shreiking, and it was close. Flipped on the bedside light and a MOLE streaked off of my leg to the floor and then behind the dresser. Poor thing. It took me, both cats and both dogs and hour to get that mole into a shoe box (amazingly in puncture free condition) and back outside. There were more than a few mouse chasing incidents in the middle of the night as well. Those are gifts I would rather not receive. A belt would be nice, though.

[Brandi]

Bo sleeps between my and dh's pillows. Curled in a ball but has to have head upside down. He sleeps there most of the night. Then Aki will sleep stretched out at the bottom of the bed. Don't move your feet she might bite you! Willow sleeps in the office on her favorite chair.
Aki in the middle of the night though thinks it is play time and will bring her feather toy with the bell on it up the stairs. Ding ding ding up the stairs. Then she let's go and watchs it fall down the stairs. Sigh! In the morning Aki will sit next to my head and yawn constantly and loudly to get me to wake up!

[Brandi]

I don't have dogs. I love them but traveling for a living makes it hard to have them. Cats are a lot easier to take care of if you are a traveler. But I have a camping dog story from just last week.
We were camping with a bunch of friends. Our one friend brought thier Chihuahua Timmy. He is not a normal looking chihuahua. He doesn't having buldging eye's. and he kinda has longer hair themn normal.He's a sweety. he like to hang out in my driveway with my cat aki (who is bigger then him).
So we are all sitting around the fire enjoying ourselves, when my girlfriend who was walking to her trailor yells out she see's a critter in the dark! Timmy starts barking and runs over. Then my friend yells "It's a skunk"! "AHH timmy's been sprayed!" She grabs him to get him away from the skunk. Whew what a smell! Poor Timmy is shaking and confused! They took him over to the camp water spigot and gave him a cold bath. Poor little guy was done for the rest of the night. We passed him around in a blanket around the fire till he got warm. But he didn't want to move at all the rest of the night. We figured he just barely got hit. Reason being they washed him with just dish soap and it seemed to help the smell. Tomatoe juice does not work by the way.

[7rider]

Grrrrrrr....

Well, I came downstairs this morning, and I found out what MY 2 rabbits were doing last night. They were fighting!! Clumps of Tasha's fur were EVERYwhere, and Tasha was cowering in the litterbox in the cage and wouldn't come out - even for banana. Noah - who weighs twice what Tasha weighs and who has an adrenal disease that causes sky-high hormone levels - just got a Lupron shot on Wednesday, but it hasn't "kicked in" yet. It takes about 7 days for the hormone levels to come back down...and I guess I timed the vet's visit a little too late. He was grunting and buzzing - like a crazed hormonal un-neutered rabbit - and running circles around my feet. I took Tasha out and brought her to the stairs and tried to get her to calm down. She was soooo stressed and was grinding her teeth like crazy.
Poor baby!! I had to separate them today - Tasha's locked in the cage...I hope she eats and drinks. I hate having to separate them.