Every weekend the cat and I have a routine, I get up at stupid o clock to make my sons sandwiches and get him up for work, she gets up with me and the first thing I do is give her big loves and then feed her, I potter about doing what needs to be done and she wanders round after me talking away and sometimes getting under my feet, but mainly just wanting a pet every now and then.
When I go upstairs to waken my son, she comes with me, she will wander around the bed miowing at him as I am shaking him and telling him to get up, my son can hold a full conversation in his sleep and appear awake, on occasion when I have woken him and he has said yes he is getting up, I have gone downstairs and he has nodded back off, when I go down the cat comes with me and then spends her time wandering up and down the stairs, if my son nods back off the cat comes and makes a great fuss in the doorway, I always know that means he has gone back to sleep and off I go to reawaken him.
Yesterday I did the very rare and unprecedented act of sleeping in, having had no sleep for several days I finally succumbed about half an hour before the alarm went off and slept right through it. I jumped out of bed an hour and a half after my son had to be at work, he had left so I decided I would go see him on my way to my Mothers and find out how late he had been. It turned out that he wasn't later at all, apparently at 5.25 the Cat had jumped on the bed and started slapping his face with her paws and yowling at him, he woke up and checked the time, noticed there was no coffee at the side of him and realised I had slept in, he dozed back off and after five minutes the cat started batting his face again and yowling at him. He then got up and sorted himself out and set off to work.
I laughed when he told me what had happened, I told him, all we have to do now is teach her how to make his sandwiches and flask and I dont have to get up again with him 
They say that animals dont know, but I have never believed that having seen the things that they are capable of doing, and this is just one more piece of evidence that proves that they know a lot more than we give them credit for 
