What shall I do about this then?

[Sparklingbrook]

We have had Sparkling Cat 4 years. She is a big cuddly grey lump and the whole family love her to bits.

Her bed is on a chair in our bedroom, she comes up with us at bedtime, and up until recently would get up with us the next morning with not a peep in between.

The last month or so she has started to wake in the night, jump onto our bed and demand fusses by headbutting us and padding on our chests. DH is fed up of it. But he does give her a fuss. Then when she's had enough she goes back to her bed on the chair.

I say he is rewarding her behaviour with a fuss but he says he has to do it to get her to go back to her own bed. Plus she's very insistent.

Last night it happened 3 separate times and DH isn't happy.

She has the run of the house bar the DSs' rooms at night. What would you do?

Seniorboy actually creates a fuss if I'm late going to bed properly - he enjoys it that much. (And that's not because he's very old: he's been doing it since he came to live with me at 13.)

I think we are making progress. We haven't been woken up for two nights now.
She has been getting a fuss every time she comes in in the day, but she is staying on her bed on the chair at night now.

Perhaps it was just a phase? I wish she could tell me.

Looking better then, Sparkling. Fingers crossed for you.

Thanks cozie it really rattles me when she acts strangely. Like she's trying to tell me something and I am all 'What?'.

Yay for progress . Maybe she just wanted more attention?

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