yes well that does strike me as an absorbing and interesting endeavour. good for you, Lakeshore. 
There was a time in my life when I would fall asleep on the sofa. wake up, feed the cat on the way to bed. So one time I notice I am leaving bloody footprints behind me and that's when I realised my puss had taken to sticking her claw into my toe to wake me up. I must have been really fast asleep that time.
So that was that. No more clawses tolerated at all she wasn't dying of starvation was she! But then after my leg was operated on it was sore and she discovered she could wake me up by walking with heavy paws on it.
So now I have insisted the whole concept of waking me up by inflicting pain has to go. and I do believe she is prepared to be tolerant of my oddly non-feline ways.
which goes to show what a nice cat she is and in her maturity still learning how to be more primate-friendly. meanwhile I have had a 'grasshopper you have become my graduate' moment with my bridge teacher, Pat. It was so funny, we were all in shock, happened last week. No doubt she'll be back to shredding me to pieces again this week, I hope so.
I am invincible. I chanted the Om mantra 3 times this morning.
