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Ok, Maybe some would say I'm just the crazy cat lady, but I have a cat who can tell time!
Boo Boo, is an 8-yr old male we've had since a 3-month old kitten. Just recently, I observed, he can actually tell time! I was awake before the clock went off, and saw Boo watching the digital clock changing. Then, the alarm went off. My dh is a snooze-alarm user, hits the button twice. Well, Boo just watched the digits change, the snooze alarm went off twice, he did nothing. Then, the third cycle, just before the last digit changed, he reached over and put his paw on daddy's face. Note, he did NOT react to the third snooze alarm, he knew it was going to go off and "pawed" daddy right before it went off. Also, he knows dad hits snooze at alarm one and two, he knows to wait for alarm 3, then starts playing "pretty kitty".
I've observed this on 3 separate occasions just recently. He sleeps on the bed between our pillows, and we've had the same clock for years. I don't know if he's counting the number of turns, or some other way "tells time" but its uncanny how he "knows"
Is this unusual? Are cats more intelligent than given credit for? Hmmmm.......
Pretty cool story! I think animals in general are smarter than we give them credit for. Scientists are having to revise their opinions on animals all the time. Boo Boo obviously hung around waiting for everyone to get up, paying enough attention to his surroundings that he eventually made the connection between the time on the clock and your husband's actions. Smart kitty!
I have no doubt that cats (and I suspect dogs also) have an internal mechanism to gage the passage of time, and as others have said, they are very routine oriented. So your very cute story doesn't surprise me. All the cats that have owned me over the years have been able to tell time, and haven't needed a clock to do it.
Once Dad was an hour late feeding Schubert dinner.
Schubert got back at Dad by waking him up an hour early the very next morning for breakfast. Rather difficult ignoring a 20 lb cat sitting on your chest batting at your face.
It has always amazed me, how animals know what time of the day certain things should happen.
When my beloved Spoiled Rottenwiler was alive, he would gently poke his big ole nose in my ear or the side of my face, promptly at 5:00 AM, whether it was my day off work or not.
Some time after I laid him to rest, the alpha house cat took over. However, the cat has always been of the notion that I should get up at 4:30 AM. Some day I am going to throw his titanium pin hipped self out the door
My current two dogs' clock watching is in the evening, when it is time for Mr. Norma to be home from work. They ask to go out, and will lay at the top of the driveway for him to pull in.
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