Cats and sleep

[redbird]

Julian woke me this morning by meowing.

While I was lying there, eyes closed, half asleep and listening to the cat noises, my subconscious showed me Artemis, our much-missed previous kitty, walking out from under the bed.

If I'd wanted to get up that early--or at any particular time--I'd have set an alarm, but I'll take the tradeoff of seeing Artemis in memory (my memory doesn't tend to be very visual) while awake enough to remember it now.

Comments

[annafdd.livejournal.com]

My cat did the same this morning. It wasn't an unreasonable hour, 10:30, and she mostly failed at rousing me, so it was OK.

[lisajulie.livejournal.com]

At one point, after losing our 19-year-old cat, Beau, I woke up one morning to his meow. He had a very different meow from the other cat, Belle, so I was sure it was his. It made me sad and comforted at the same time.