who is unreasonable regarding the bastard cat? you decide!

[AtYourCervix]

The cat is a bastard. There is no cure. He just is.

He sleeps all day (when not demanding good - usually hourly). Then at night he likes to go out.

And in.

And out.

And in.

And out.

And in.

And out.

'Oh get a cat flap' I hear you cry, but the door is unsuitable and even if there was one the kitchen door is closed at night and Bastard Cat has an irrational hatred of closed doors.

So...

He's out and decides he needs to come in. So he shouts and wails loudly until someone gets up and opens a door or window.

Repeat every 2 hours.

And reverse.

I think that if the bathroom window is left open he can come and go and all I need to do is wake up enough to open the bedroom door. Then Bastard Cat can come in and snuggle my head.

H thinks that is just inviting him to shout at the bedroom door. And it should be closed.

But then I have to wake up enough to trek downstairs to let him in.

Please decide who is right.

Juniper we are just both geniuses (genii).

Cats are god. Our is just over 1 stone (perfect for breed!). He hates his cat flap - probably as a bit of a tight squeeze. Will use it when no one is looking, but if you're in the kitchen near the flap, he'll just look at you until you open the door for him. Lazy lump of lard. He'll also pull up all the carpet in the bedroom (outside the bathroom) so he can join DH in the bathroom to watch him have a shower in the morning. I love the cat (I think!). DH ADORES him. But no more cats moving in here after he's departed this world.

He's far too handsom and sweet to deny him anything. I adore him.

Photo?

Sadly new phone and he's out. FOr now......

He's far too handsom and sweet to deny him anything. I adore him.

I presume you mean Bastard Cat, not DH? In that case why don't you let BC sleep in your bed, and DH can sleep by the back door and do the cat butlering?

Here's my horror... well a bit of him!

I had a bastarding cat like that. He'd climb onto the side access gate, jump onto the porch roof, meow under my bedroom window, which I'd open to let him in.

We did have a cat access cut out on the shed door, so he had a bed in there too, if I wasn't home.

Cats are absolute gits.

My parents have an old fashioned cat flap that their cat has to lift with his nose. If they are home he uses it as a door knocker so they open the back door for him

The cat is being unreasonable

Our cats go out at night - and then look forlornly at us in the morning to come in. - We confuse them as DD1 and I work shifts so they never know if will have early breakfast (6 am if DD on early) or have to starve til 730. We built them a lovely cat kennel for shelter - which they flatly refuse to use. However even on the foulest, stormiest night Senor (boycat) is never even damp when he comes in - so clearly has another home. Fat Cat (his sister) is too stupid and is often a tad damp

I had a bastard elderly tom who would repeatedly punch the catflap at speed (imagine a boxer punching a ball during practice) until the noise woke me up. And when he wanted feeding at silly o'clock he'd walk back and forth over my head purring until I got up. I loved him to the moon and back tho'.

They are indeed our feline overlords.

we replaced our unsuitable back door when we got our cats. It kind of meant we had to get a new kitchen so it's worked out as being a £12,000 cat flap.

Despite having the run of the house and a catflap to the great outdoors, our Stupidcat would regularly yowl outside our bedroom window to be let in in the middle of the night. This was a window that was not openable and so Stupid cat had never ever gained access that way.

Nevertheless Stupidcat thought it was worth crying pitifully outside the non-funtioning window rather than go all the way (at least 3 metres) to her fully functioning cat flap and through all the wide open doors to the place she thought she should be.

Don't look for cat logic or brains Stupidcat was a bastard too.

Mrschickpea we also have a 1 stone lazy lump of a cat who loves to watch us shower - except we have two of them. One of them likes to scratch/meow outside the front door rather than go around the back to the catflap! But I love them both so they get away with it. And right on cue the scratching at the front door has just started!

p.s. Your cat is beautiful

cat has you seriously wrapped around his paw!

Whether you do catflap, bathroom window, or just shut him in or out all night, you have to teach him that you are not going to get up for him no matter what.

Food, doors as you want them, and then go to bed and ignore him, or, chuck water over him if he yowls.

He is doing it, because it works!

My mum tried cat flap training her cat as he would howl and yowl until she gave in. The cat disagreed with her train of thinking so spent a fortnight bringing in kill. She stopped trying to not do as he wanted when she was faced with a gutted hare corpse in the middle of her bedroom. The guts were trailed up the stairs. Ozzy Osbourne (AKA Prince of Darkness) started the killing spree with small mice and moles, although the blasted mole was still alive, and worked up in size. After the hare it would have been lambs and sheep as she lives by a sheep farm. Then I guess he would have moves do to cattle.

DH fitted a cat flap to our bedroom door, and also to the internal kitchen/hallway door. There was another one in the external kitchen door. And one into the shed. And another one to a different shed.

I think we kept the cat flap industry going for a while there.

Sadly the cat is now dead.

Titcats have a grand total of 4 (four!!) cat flaps (internal and external) to allow free access to their Kingdom.

The fuckers still throw themselves (a la Simon's cat) at the 1 door that hasn't been flapped to teach me a lesson. It seems I never learn.

Controlled miaowing?