To categorically refuse to allow the cat in the bedrooms

[Evelight]

We just got a cat about 10 days ago. First time, finally giving in to near-constant demands for a pet. However I discussed this before, ON ONE CONDITION that the bedroom doors are ALWAYS closed and the cat is NEVER allowed in.

The first night she did meow outside our doors, not too loudly, not enough to wake you up if you're fast asleep. She has been good more or less since, though getting up to pee has become something of a nerve-wracking activity.

She is visibly happy to see us in the morning.

I am now under a constant pressure campaign to let her in the rooms.

My reasons: I don't want (so much) cat hair in our beds and clothes, your aunt got bronchitis which two specialists said was exacerbated from sleeping with a (very hairy Persian) cat, I had two bouts of bronchitis over the past two yrs, right now I am just done a bout of antibiotics for a blocked sinus/ear channel.

Their reason: she's sad and you're evil.

Our cats are allowed free roam during the day (including sleeping on made beds) but are shut downstairs in the kitchen/diner overnight - where their food, beds and cat flap are. They drive me bonkers with their 4am madness otherwise.

Mine has the run of the house. The cat flap is locked at night so he can't get out and he generally sleeps in the living room but it wouldn't bother me if he wanted to sleep in the bedroom (he does during the day anyway!).

I leave food down all night for him. He was only eating dried food until recently but is recovering from a broken jaw so I'm leaving wet food down for him. Not ideal but I can't starve the poor little sod!

The only people I've known in real life who let animals in the human beds had pretty low hygiene levels in general tbh.

So do a lot of people who don't let animals into the bed!

It's their home, so they should be allowed everywhere. They don't shed hair the way dogs do.

There's nothing nicer than waking up face to face with a nice pussy cat sitting on your chest

No cats on the beds is the rule and if I find my boy upstairs on ds3's bed , because he left the door open, he sees me and scarpers downstairs quick sharpish.

They can sleep in comfort downstairs and have the run of the Utility.

I love my cats but I refuse to sleep with them because they bite my toes and walk up and down on me digging their spiky little feet into my soft and squidgy body. How can something so small weigh so much?

When they were kittens I shut them into one room at night, as they got older (6 months +) they could go anywhere in the house and they had a flap for access to outside. They learned to deal with it.
About twice a year I find them curled up in the bed and they look all cute so I relent and leave them there...

I love my cat sleeping on my bed, I find it really comforting especially when I can't sleep. I even have a special glass of water just for him in my bedside table! He's good as gold and doesn't disturb me at all.

At 3am hiddenhome? I can think of quite a lot of nicer things, starting with not waking up for another four hours.

Sherlock is allowed into bedrooms during the day but at night he is left in the living room with the door shut. He is quite content and doesn't move from the sofa

It's their home, so they should be allowed everywhere.

Bollocks to that.

YABU. If you don't want her if your bedroom fine, why can't she go in your DCs?

If DH is away one of ours sleeps in our room. He starts on the bottom of the bed at my feet (I'm too short to use that bit anyway) then at some point decides I'm too fidgety and moves onto the window sill. The other two sleep on a fleece blanket that gets put on the sofa at night. None of them sleep in here when DH is home because they don't like his snoring (I know how they feel!). They don't go in the kids' bedrooms - they don't like the toddler as he's too prone to surprising screeching noises, 8-year-old likes his room cold and they don't like the cold and the two teenage bedrooms have no empty floor space for them to be curled up on due to them being untidy sods. They have 4 cat beds, but they don't use any of them.

The big two can open doors so locking them in/out is pointless as all that happens is you get disturbed by the door getting barged open. They can't open the kitchen door as it's a fire door so they are often locked out of the kitchen, which suits me, I hate them being in the kitchen unsupervised as I know they'll ignore the rules about not being allowed on the worktops.

Mine never sleeps in my bed

Dogs and cats are banned from the bedrooms, originally because i am a light sleeper and they all purr really loudly, but now they wont go in even if the doors are open ( one does come and cry at the bedroom door if she needs to go outside).

Cats lick their own bums clean. Nothing else to say!

insideout you have dogs that purr, I'm impressed

WileHallion how rude I have very high hygiene standards my dog sleeps under the covers with me and I wouldn't have it any other way. Hope those judgy pants don't shrink in the wash.
OP your house your rules but I'd never shut a cat in a kitchen it will climb all over the work surfaces.

I'd love to let our cats sleep in our beds but DS and I have asthma/eczema

Also ours are up all night, I'm and of those whose cats sleep nicely in bed with them!

No cat in bedroom here. I'm asthmatic so it is non-negotiable. The cat has never been in so he doesn't know what he is missing. I don't think he is deprived in any way.

Cats (and dogs) are natures hot-water bottles.

Also a hell of a lot cleaner than some men I know!

And I much prefer purring to snoring!

"Ffft, my slave previously commented I slept mainly on my throne in the sitting room, this'll teach her not to assume".
Maddiemoo aged 10 and a half.

My boys have always slept in bed with me. I'm not sure I have any choice in the matter.

It's your house so you can decide what's what. But if your children (and the cat) have other ideas it might be hard to implement.

The only people I've known in real life who let animals in the human beds had pretty low hygiene levels in general tbh.

ROFL. The only people I know IRL who don't are either people that have OCD, are weird about anything natural eg "eeek! Don't eat blackberries from the garden! You don't know where they've been!" etc, or are just soulless clean freaks.

Just sayin.

Never.
She is allowed in DDS room but all other doors apart from utility room are shut to her.
And she sheds hair like fuck.