To also lock cat out of the room?

[JulianBoon]

DD used to have cat in her room. He is an orange cat and she has a desk with built in shelves with lots of trinkets on and he always tries to jump up and knock everything off.

So he's taken to sleeping in my room, but he wakes me up all the time. Jumping up and down off his bed (thick blankets onto of the wardrobe) and coming to make biscuits on my face at 4am.

He can't sleep in the living room (dog)

I was thinking of getting him a big tall cat tree for the upstairs hall, so just outside my bedroom, something with an enclosed bed to keep him warm over winter.

I feel mean locking him out of all the bedrooms at night but he is really naughty and loves to knock things over! Funnily he doesn't do it in the daytime!

Unfortunately he's a cat and night time is their playtime!!!! Can you stick the ornaments down with eome blu tack? My mad lot were charging round the house at 5 am so feel your pain. Orange cats are lovely btw 😻

We've always shut our cat in the kitchen when we go to bed!

I couldn't have a cat in our bedrooms - unless you are really on the ball with flea prevention. Would it not be better to have your dog crate trained at night if he can't be trusted with the cat?

My cat scratched my carpets trying to get into the bedroom when I tried this.

Our cats have always been shut in the kitchen overnight. Lovely warm hammocks over the radiators, cat trees, cat flap, access to food.

We have one of these (tucked behind a huge plant) for our non-ginger cat

https://amzn.eu/d/fjR1kIF

& he loves it & loves being able to sleep up high. It also means he's well out of reach of the dogs. I'd highly highly recommend. He spends most of the day there but sleeps with my son (his person) at night.

Our cats are shut in kitchen/dining room overnight. Always have been. They have food, litter tray, cat beds, cat tree etc there.

Our cats are all locked downstairs overnight - as long as he has food, water and his litter tray he'll be fine.

Our kitchen is very cold! I wouldn't want a cat bed in the kitchen either.

The dog and cat get along fine and the dogs are crated but they tend to bark if the cat if freeloading because he winds them up!

Off topic but when did the humble ginger cat get rebranded Orange? You see it all the time on Instagram and I find it mildly odd!

Why?
My daughter sends me 'orange cat' videos all the time, it's supposedly a thing that ginger cats are silly and dopey.
It's a nice bonding thing we have to find silly videos about them and whereas in real conversation I would refer to him as ginger I guess I'm in the habit now of typing orange.

It's really not a big thing in the grand scale of life is it?

We have two tabbies a ginger and black floof ball and two terriers.
They all have free reign to kitchen, utility hallway and landing.
i can’t cope with them in the early hours doing zoomies and launching off windowsills.
all bedroom doors closed to ensure a full nights sleep.
often they may snuggle with the dogs. Thankfully all fine in our household.
jist have plenty of different type of beds and places to sleep
for them.

We tried this with our cat, so he climbed up the front of the house and hammered on the bedroom window while wailing at the top of his voice.

We had to let him in for the sake of the neighbours.

Our cats are downstairs at night as one in particular thinks 4.30am is breakfast time. But I can close the door to the hall/staircase and they have almost all of downstairs plus access to the garden. The dogs sleep with me but I'm surprised you can't leave them together - do you need to crate your dog overnight? I only did that when house training.
If I just shut the bedroom door I'd have the male meowing loud enough to wake the dead.

Orange cat?

Ours goes in the kitchen overnight. If it's cold in the winter we leave a heated airer on for her.

My cats have nearly always been locked in the kitchen overnight.

It's the only room that they can't dig up the flooring in too!

They have access to everything they need, raised sleepers, radiator that's on low all night in the colder weather (I have central heating and plug in ones for us for emergency use so they will never be cold if the central heating goes down providing we still have electricity), food water, litter tray.

I keep the window shut as I don't want them out in the garden mousing overnight as I don't want gifts in the morning!

Will he be happy using a cat tree overnight? Encourage him to use it with catnip and leave the door open for the first few nights do he can accommodate the change. Otherwise you may find he's still waking you with various songs of his people rather than biscuits.

You could also try a laundry basket in the hall that he's absolutely not allowed to be in.

I put mine in a dog crate at bed time. Have done since they were kittens (barn feral kittens). It’s just where they expect to go to bed now. Might be harder to persuade an older cat though. Couldn’t have them in the bedrooms as they leap round all night.

ginger cat. Generally not known for being bright.

I have always locked my cats out of the bedroom.

There's a section on Reddit called "One Orange Brain Cell", where the idea is that all ginger cats have one brain cell which they share between them, and people post pictures of their ginger cats doing dopey stuff. It think it originated there and has spread round the internet.

Poor cat. Sounds as though he enjoys company at night.
When I had my beautiful calico cat she always slept on my bed but had free reign of the rest of the house- doors left open. I wouldn't have dreamed of shutting her out of my room at night. She was very attached to me.
I also didn't know people now called Ginger cats "Orange"! Why??? Is this an Americanism?

Poor cat? 🤣
Because he's being bought a £80 cat tree to sleep in, in a warm house, right outside his owners bedroom?

People are ridiculous and so overly dramatic, for what? There are actually thousands of 'poor cats' in Britain that actually deserve sympathy whilst living on the streets, being locked out of houses all night in rainstorms and snow.

This little monster is spoilt!

Some people like being woken up by a cat pawing at their face, many do not.