To let my fucking cat take his chances??

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He’s a nice cat and I have no real beef with him generally but he’s learned that he can somehow scale the ivy outside my first floor window and shout at me from 5am.

He doesn’t want anything. He can access the whole downstairs where there are many beds and food in his bowl. If I let him in he doesn’t just want to curl up on my bed, he instead continues shouting and runs downstairs to demand slightly fresher food, whilst waking the younger children.

If I get him in and just hurl him straight out the front door Flintstones style, he just climbs straight back up.

Once he’s up, he’s on a very precarious tiny windowsill. I don’t know how he even does it without falling.

YABU - continue to let the fucker in

YANBU - ignore him, leave him to his own shitty decision-making, and hope he doesn’t fall and just gives up in time

Haha mine is too, once he knows he can now sit there, he usually has a wash there spits his claws out and walks off!

Cut down the ivy, stop his point of access

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Yes this might work. Next door cat maybe, he hates him.

He will never stop until you let him in.
From experience you need to trap the cat in a downstairs room over night with snug bed, dry food, water and kitty litter.
A laundry is good, or downstairs loo.
It will still need to be fed fresher food as soon as the sun rises and will prefer to drink flowing water from the bath tap but at least you will not have an alarm clock on the window sill..

He’s gone. I darent look out the window in case he’s
a) hiding under it saying ‘I knew you weren’t fucking asleep,’ or
b) spreadeagled dumbledore-style in the geraniums

Put prickle strips on the windowsill for a while to deter him

This wouldn’t work, he likes to spend his nights out murdering things. He’d be fuming if I kept him in.

Teach him to be an indoor cat. More responsible and much safer for him.

Nah that’s well tight he’s a wild animal! Might as well just put him to death now

ive seen a cat fall from a third floor window sill, land on its feet, create a racket to be let back in the close door and be absolutely fine.

I’d let him take his chances 😁

Our cat used to run in the back door, having demanded entry, straight through to the front door where he demanded exit, all because he couldn't be arsed to walk around the side of the house. And we did it, for the entire 18 years of the cat's life.

Mine sleep in their beds. Quietly.

(smug cat mum) 🤣

Do it once and he’ll expect the same service for ever and on demand… I’ve tried explaining this to my husband who failed to listen and is now my cats bitch

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God, my cat used to do the sad face tapping as well. He also had a silent bleat that he'd do - like 'I'm not going to waste an actual miaow on you, you useless piece of shit, I'm just going to open my mouth to look like I'm making a noise to heighten the pathos, whilst simultaneously gently tapping on the glass as though I'm considering your feelings by not being too loud.'

I miss him.

My cat generally stays in at night but in the summer if she's out when I go to bed she stays out. She can't climb up to my window but she does meow loudly and if I have my window open it wakes me. I try to ignore it but 9 times out of 10 I get up go down let her in and then feed her. If she comes upstairs after this she won't just lie down straight away she has to tell me about her night 😂

Oh and then sleeps all day when I'm exhausted 😆

What we do for our little furrballs !!

The thing about cats is they don’t seem to learn from negative reinforcement. You could ignore him for hours and he’ll still be back on that windowsill tomorrow, hopping on his little kitty crutches if the worst should happen.

Once about 5years ago I got up early and gave my cat some food because he asked for it. He has headbutted me in the kidneys at 6am every day since, while I steadfastly ignore him and refuse to feed him until it’s after 7.

Flint stone style made me really laugh! I could imagine it!

Thanks for the early morning laugh 😂

So bizarre how you do something just the once… then it’s written in stone forever more ! 😱😂

In the summer when I have the window open at night mine use the window as a cat flap.
It always really confused me how they got in/out and downstairs until I saw one of them one day, jump on my neighbours bin, from there to the tiny little lintel above her front door, then a massive jump across to my sloping porch roof, then up to the window. I assume they do the revers to get down.
Which is fine when the window is open, but when it's shut they just sit and scream.
I've had other neighbours knock to politely tell me my cats are stuck on the roof and do I need help getting them down!
You'd think the cats would just use the cat flap by the front door and walk up the stairs, but no. Everything has to be a massive drama.

Leave a cucumber on the ledge 😬

I spend each morning making no sudden movements, keeping my breath slow and regular etc to convince my cat I am still asleep, otherwise she trots over, ready for morning cuddles to commence even if its 5am.

So I'm afraid I have no useful advice, but solidarity anyway.

"Hurl him out the door Flintstone style"?  - oh my.

Maybe if you post this under "the litter tray" section you'll get more cat owner feedback.

We keep our bastard of our cat confined to the living room overnight, otherwise he prowls the house yowling all night.