In our house only certain persons are designated as persons who feed the cats... to avoid the cats lying and trying to get a second meal. I am not one of the "food people".

I do find it amusing that Whiskers only knocks things over in one of my nephew's rooms. My nephew has his own cat, which is a one person cat, and who doesn't like to have to share the house with two other cats, and she tries to claim my nephew's room as solely he own space, whereas the other two cats do not acknowledge her boundaries she has claimed as exclusively her territory. So, Whiskers when he goes into my nephew's room tends to knock things over as if saying in a passive aggressive way, "You aren't the boss of me." My nephew isn't too happy about it.

Yeah, it is Whiskers walking on me to get me up. His meow isn't all that loud. However his purr. That is loud enough that my nephew claims to hear it in the next room over.

My girls never wake me up. They stay in bed until I get up, & sometimes they don't want to get up then either. They are more interested in ''breakfast'' later in the day.

We also could never shut them out of the bedroom anyway, they'd shred the carpet, & the door, trying to get in.