"Let Me In" Lily

There are cat people and there are dog people. I'm a cat person. After several years without a cat, we adopted Lily from the Animal Refuge League in Westbrook. She now runs the house. In the early morning hours she jumps on me, bats my head and scatches at the mattress on my side of the bed. When I finally get up, she leads me to her food bowl. Even though there is dry food in the bowl, she demands a fresh serving. If I close the bedroom door, she beats on the door until I get up. It sounds like she has a battering ram out in the hall. After a while, I just send her outdoors. I don't like putting her outside when it's still dark with all the other nocturnal animals, but she now knows to climb on the front porch railing and bat the screen windows. She may be pesky, but she is entertaining. She's very much like Simon's Cat: http://www.simonscat.com/catmando.html