I must be lucky. I work graveyard and get home between 5:30-9:30 depending if I work overtime or not. When I get home that's when I feed simba his breakfast. Now on the weekends I don't sleep very well and sometimes stay up to 3:00-4:00 am and go to bed and sleep until 12:00-1:00 and simba waits patiently until I get up for breakfast. Doesn't bother me until I get up. I can even wake up and stay in bed for a couple of hours watching a movie on my iPad and not a peep from him until I get up. Now if I'm in the kitchen all bets are off. He will scream anytime I'm in the kitchen to be fed.