When I got up around 8--late for me!--Alice and Crumpet were quite busy, but I am thinking that they were heading for sleep late rather than waking early, because since around 9 or 10am, and it is now just past noon, they have been cuddled up asleep. As CCT points out in a comment yesterday, pets can be bored, and it's our job as their keepers to provide what animal-keeper professionals call enrichment. This is true of all animals as can be witnessed in apes and cats and elephants and others of... Sign in to see full entry.