Pet owner gets tricked into expediting breakfast after her hissterical dog and cats successfully convince her to wake up a full hour before her alarm: 'These little liars worked together'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jan 20, 2026 4:00 AM EST

What is the biggest trick your pet has ever pulled on you?

As much as we like to make fun of our fluffy furriends for only possessing one brain cell (and even that is a rare occurrence), sometimes we are reminded just how smart our pets can be. 

The thing is, they never reveal their true intelligence by following orders. No, they will only show how smart they are if it gets them any closer to what they want. It could be a treat, an extra 30 minutes to play outside, or a cuddle session when you really should already be heading to work; all that matters to them is to get their heart's desire without getting in trouble.

On these occasions, a pet can get extra sneaky and even form a plan to get what they want. 

Our cats, for example, always try to get their hands on an extra treat. Every few weeks, we have to move their treat stash to a different and secret location, because they keep figuring out how to open the drawer or cabinet we keep them in. After the third time that we got home to find all the treats half-opened and spread across the house, we realised we can never let them figure out where we keep them all. We have to keep these little fiesty felines on their toes, because they have no problem using all their combined brain cells and energy into cracking the daily puzzle of how to get to the treats.

The pets in the story below had a mission to get their owner to wake up earlier than usual so they could get their breakfast expedited. They devised a whole plan and actually worked together to convince their owner that her alarm clock went off an hour early, and got her to wake up without realising what they did. Who knew a Labrador and two kittens could be so smart?

By the time the owner figured out she had been tricked, her dog and two cats were already enjoying their early breakfast. Now, she is worried that these little tricksters will learn from this success and continue to use their newfound intelligence to get what they want. Unfortunately for her, there's not much she can do to stop them…

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  • young woman feeds her huge white dog with a dry food sitting on the floor with a package of pets food at home
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  • Early this morning I was personally, and I feel professionally victimized by the three souls I cherish most in the world.
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  • The story of my morning! I have parasomnia, it means I get up to all sorts of stupid stuff when I'm asleep, eating, going for walks, talking, and turning off alarms.
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  • Which means I set a lot of alarms every morning, all with different increasingly obnoxious sounds, until my final alarm at 5.
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  • My Labrador and my two kittens have devised specific behaviours that they do when my final alarm goes off, which is mostly great because there's still a risk I am partially asleep and won't fully wake up.
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  • For the last year they have consistently done these things every day at 5am, and have even been doing them on days when I have no alarm set!
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  • My Labrador has been doing it for years, but my kittens are nearly 2yo, so they've only started in the last year.
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  • Now, the lab, Cooper, is the sweetest, gentlest baby, so he rests his head on the edge of the bed, and pushes it down more and more the longer he waits, and gives these gentle sighs until I wake up and see his perfect face looking at me!
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  • Well, the kittens are not as gentle lol! My one girl, Matanuska, does laps around my head on the pillow purring loudly.
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  • Her sister Susitna starts 'digging' loudly on the pillows I'm not using. So, this morning, when I had vaguely heard an alarm I mostly didn't remember, Susitna started digging, then Cooper started resting his head and sighing, and soon enough, Matanuska was doing her laps.
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  • So because they never do this before 5am, my sleep addled brain took that to mean it's time to get up.
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  • I got up, fed the gremlins, had some breakfast, hopped into the shower, and as I was doing my hair, my 5am alarm went off...??
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  • In a very confusing few minutes I checked every clock in the house, and repeatedly checked my phone, before conceding that, yes, it was only 5am....
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  • Which means these little lying liar pants worked together to scam me into breakfast at least an hour early!!!
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  • I can't go back to sleep now, since I've eaten and showered, so now I have to sit here and wallow in my gullibility for an hour before I have to leave for work... the worst part is that now that they've gotten away with it. once, I just know they're going to try again frequently... My lab has pulled a lot of other scams over the years.
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  • His two favourites are, waiting two seconds after | come inside, so he can ring the doorbell to be let in, because if he uses the doorbell then he gets a treat.
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  • The other is pooping 10ft from the beach when we're leaving his favourite swim spot, then making a break for it the second I reach down to clean it up, and diving back into the water!
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  • I adore him, and I refuse to even try to dissuade these antics, because they're harmless and such a silly little thing.
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  • (Letting him head back to the beach, being off leash is imo safe, because the water is still and there are no other people/dogs there to worry about.
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  • If there were others, we would not be off leash!) I let him have his wins, and pretend I haven't caught on.
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  • LOL! I'm looking forward to seeing how the kittens will scam me in the future!
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  • TLDR: My pets scammed me into getting up a full hour before I was supposed to and I'm having some feelings about it!
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  • Will you share some of the scams your pets are running right now? One of the "unfortunate" realities of living with intelligent critters, is they find little scams to run on you, their family, their constant companion, the one who feeds, loves, and cares for them!!
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  • SilasBalto No scams here. Just my poor dog that my husband must have forgotten to feed again! Poor thing barely has the energy to roo at his bowl, excuse me g2g
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  • Affectionate_Star_43 My cats have mastered the art of acting like they have never eaten a day in their life. If my husband and I don't coordinate, they end up with second breakfast and supper like hobbits.
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  • Brilliant_Mission276 My oldest, raised her since she was 6 weeks, soon as I sit down on the recliner couch she will go around and around it til I give up my seat when there is an open availability right next to me. So I must move for her. My other 3 fur missiles don't do that lol
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