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!

Not necessarily. Mine never have.

Again, the perceived ridiculousness of the comment is not the point. OP asked for opinions, she got them, and then she started being rude to the one person who disagreed with her. Basic civility seems to have gone out the window. Maybe it was knocked out by OP's cat.

Ahem, back on topic … as a kitten, one of my cats used to wee on the bed. After the second time that was it, no access to the bedroom, ever! They were absolutely fine with it, they had the run of the rest of the house. I don’t think there’s any guarantee that your cat will sleep in a cat tree, I’ve lost count of the number of cat beds I have given away because they never got used. But he’ll be absolutely fine with a windowsill, cardboard box, pile of clean laundry, important paperwork ….

Re the catflap, mine have free range but I do sometimes get hunting trophies, there is absolutely nothing wrong with limiting their access at night. There are lots of things they’d like to do that I don’t permit (eating from the fridge, drinking milk and having unlimited Dreamies, for example). I don’t think they suffer for it.

At no point did I accuse you of neglecting your cat. If you really thought that you must have some concerns about your treatment of him. I assume that was the reason you posted your question in the first place: because you had doubts about your proposed course of action.

And I do support the Cat Protection charity and have helped to rescue cats in the past.

Don't be ridiculous
I didn't accuse OP of neglecting her cat.
I have a different viewpoint on cats and pets from you and OP.
I gave my view point and you and OP immediately took umbrage because it wasn't what she wanted to hear.

I may be biased but I genuinely think ginger cats are the best 😆

I had a male tortie and didn't realise he was rare until we went to have him spayed. He has a unisex name and they assumed they were going to take his womb out right up until the last minute 🤣

Mine aren’t allowed in my bedroom at night. I have visions of them using my head as a trampoline and/or them depositing something small and furry on my head in the middle of the night. When I first got them I kept them in for 5 months (ex feral) and they originally has
free range of the 2 spare rooms. But they ruined the carpet in one room with pee and the mattress on the bed in the other room with pee so after that they could go up the stairs but not into the bedrooms. I never had them clawing at the door or the carpet to get in.

Now they are allowed out they barely come into the house. They like the conservatory (I keep the windows all open in the summer and shut in the winter) but despite having 24/7 access via a cat flap into the main house they rarely venture in. I think they are possibly scared they will get trapped for 5 months again. I suspect the temperature in your kitchen would be just fine if mine are fine in the conservatory over winter by choice. If you are worried on a particularly cold night you could always put a warm water bottle under his bed.

The kitchen it's more the issue that there's nowhere to put a bed apart from on the kitchen worktops and I wouldn't like that at all, there's no space that isn't countertops.

Only thing I can think of is a wall mounted bed but seems a bit odd in the kitchen?

I can put a bed anywhere in the hall.

We have a 3 storey house so he has the run of all floors. I could put various wall beds up!

Well, she didn't accuse anyone of cruelty or neglect. Read her posts again

She may not have used those exact words but yeah, she pretty much did. There's a reason everyone has disagreed with her 😉

Mine sometimes gets shut in the living room
I'm a great cat owner but I need sleep, and if he wants to wake me he does this by chewing wires
He might want my company but if he can't do that quietly without trying to electrocute himself or choke himself on plastic at 4am then I shut him somewhere safe

Radiator bed, if you've got a convenient one in your kitchen?

Just a tip too - if you are thinking of buying a cat tree, look for secondhand first. FB Marketplace is full of owners selling unloved expensive cat trees!

I love my three cats, but I don't allow them in the bedrooms. They can go anywhere else in the house, and all have their favourite places to sleep. One of them still chooses to sleep outside my bedroom door in spite of many other warmer/comfier places being available, so your Orange cat should be fine, even without a special bed.

But if you have radiators, you can get beds that hang off them

You absolutely did imply she was neglecting her cat. You said she was spending money on him but depriving him of human company and that he was a "poor cat" and that you couldn't possibly do that to a pet.

I shut my cats out of my bedroom but I've spent the last hour and a half trapped under one on the sofa. Poor cat.

Radiator beds are fab. Like hammocks. Very comfy.

Is the floor not an option? Or on top of the fridge or washer? We've had cats sleep in all of those places. And DD sellotaped fake fur to a window sill and they used that for a while

Our current cats sleep wherever they like. None of us sleep deeply anyway so being woken isn't such an issue. Although if DD can catch one she'll cuddle it all night, which they seem happy with. Or if the bigger one has evil wind (dear lord, the occasional stenches from that animal would strip paint) we'll grab her and deliver her to DD for the rest of the night.

We have four of the blighters. The entire house bears the scars of their efforts to get from Side A of a door to Side B. Thankfully, they have yet to try and break into the fridge, but it is probably only a matter of time.

Why do people buy cat beds? Total waste of money. Right now we have one asleep in the middle of the coffee table, another in the magazine rack, one on top of a cardboard box containing lava (don't ask), and the fourth is curled up on top of one of my handbags I carelessly left abandoned on a chair in the bedroom. They often change places and also favour the dining chairs, the bread board in the kitchen, the lid of the laundry basket at the top of the stairs (and occasionally inside it), on top of DH's stereo turntable, the living room windowsill, on the clothes waiting to be ironed, and if you put anything remotely resembling paper on the floor they are on it in a flash. Newpapers, road atlases, jigsaws, the lot. Primark carrier bags are another fave.

One of them likes to sleep on my head sometimes. I rather like it - his purring sends me to sleep. He's the one currently favouring the solid wood of the coffee table instead.

My cats’ idea of the best life possible would be to eat 15 dinners in a row- sometimes boundaries are a good thing. I had to shut my old cat out of the bedroom because she started jumping on my bed, walking over my face then jumping off. All night. Letting pets do whatever they want isn’t good pet ownership!