Where does your cat sleep through the night?

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Mine sleeps at the foot of my bed on he's blanket.
My friend said she locks hers in the kitchen at night because she doesn't want her cat roaming around at night 😬 I've never heard of this I thought they all just roamed around the house, sleeping where they like. This is my first ever cat and he's almost 1. Have I been doing it wrong 🙈

my parents kept the cat in the kitchen at night, I think because at the point they got her they were used to shutting all the downstairs doors at night (fire safety?) and didn't change that.

Ours roam, one sleeps on our bed, the other moves between the kitchen and the living room.

Gosh I'd feel so cruel leaving our 2 shut in 1 room downstairs. Also if you were going to choose any room surely the kitchen would be the worst due to risk of fire. I suppose they might have cat flap to escape through but then the cat would probably be out at night.

My 2 sleep on the bed at night and then again during the day, lazy beasts. I think they would much rather we didn't share it with them but sometimes they have to compromise.

Mine go wherever they want except our room (I'd let them in but hate being woken up if they randomly get the zoomies or decide 4am is food time) Often find them on the sofas in the morning or on my computer chair.

Mine have always had access to every part of the home (currently not the kitchen because the kittens create havoc on the worktops!).

Most of them sleep high up on their cat trees either in the bedroom or elsewhere, or on the sofa.

Our roam and sleep where they want.We have tried closing out bed room doors but they scratch until we break and let them in.

She gets shut in the conservatory in order to keep her out of the nursery and preserve the new sofas.

We put beanbags on the kitchen table, and shut them in there overnight. They've got food bowls, water, litter trays, several comfy chairs as well as the table beanbags, and it's cosy because of our aga. There's no access to outside, the catflap is elsewhere. We've tried leaving them access to all the rooms in the house and it didn't work - being woken by yowling practice, opera singing, zoomies and tap dancing on our heads several times a night just didn't work. They're perfectly happy, perfectly cosy and are genuinely unsettled if we don't follow the routine (we have the occasional try just to see if age has mellowed them - it hasn't).

On my pillow, wrapped around my head.

Or he gets the whole pillow... it depends if he's feeling cuddly and will share MY pillow with me! Lol

Cats sleep at night ???

Is mine defective?

Ours is allowed to roam but sleeps all night in our bed and looks as shocked as I do every morning when the alarm goes off!

in one of his favourite sleep spots, he has about 4. 2 are in our bedroom, one is the foot of our bed.
Woe betide you if you shut the bedroom door and he has decided that he needs to sleep on the sleep spot in the bedroom.
The plaintive repeated meow will drive you nuts

Cats are nocturnal and have very good night vision, also at night it’s a lot safer for them to roam and hunt.

before she passed a couple of weeks ago she slept with her paws in the air and her head on my shoulder every single night. I really do miss her

My old cat used to wake us up at 4am every single morning so he was shut off downstairs. My current cat loves a snooze and sleeps lengthways between me and DH

One sleeps wrapped around my head, one sleeps on my feet, the last one sleeps on my legs. I work away a lot, and apparently they sleep in those spots even if I'm not there

The only time they get locked in the kitchen is if they start pissing around too much in the night, then I get up and walk downstairs - they all follow in excitement thinking I'm about to give them yet more food, and find themselves shut in the kitchen...

We have 3 - 2 sleep with me (the oldest and youngest) and the other sleeps downstairs (her choice - she can't really stand the other 2).

The 2 that sleep with me take up all of the bloody Superking bed (DH has his own room) but I like the snuggles.

Currently pg and if it sticks the cats are going to be in for a nasty shock at being kicked out the bedroom. This makes me sad :(

Our house layout means they can't be locked into 1 room - their litter tray and food and water are in different places. So they will just have to be shut out of the bedroom and will probably scratch the doors and carpet to pieces!

Leroy settled down to sleep in his box in our room at about 1am, having spent the previous hour entertaining a herd of elephants.

He has a box in our room, a box in the lounge, a box in the hall, a chaise longue style scratch board, a suitcase in DS's room, 3 sofas and 2 beds to choose from.

He frequently chooses to sleep on the floor right outside the bathroom door 🙄.

Sleep through the night?! What witchcraft is this? Mine make their presence known between 4am and 6am.

Ours are shut downstairs which also shuts them away from the cat flap, they are prolific hunters and bring in tons of little creatures otherwise. They sleep on the sofas - one each!

In the garage. There are windows, a cat flap, food and beds but no heating. They have thick coats and are allowed in the house the rest of the time. I don't want a litter tray in the house and I don't want them tearing around the house at 3am waking the DC up.

Old girl has hyperthyroidism (treated) so she is a roamer. She will do a few hours on my bed, the spare room bed, go outside a few times, use the litter tray, eat and drink and then back to my bed again.
She rarely wakes me up though except on the occasion she wants me to look at her catnip banana or toy mouse at 4 in the morning. usually by standing on my chest and miaowing with her mouth full.

Ours has a bed on the landing and his cat tree with a bowl on in the living room. We have to shut him out of our bedrooms as he is a little pest and loves to treat our divan bed as a scratch post, and also loves to jump on top of our wardrobes then jump down on top of us at 1.20am!

I wish he could behave and just sleep on the bed.

I have loads of cats, one will only sleep if curled into me back the others have free roam to sleep where they please although they have all adopted their set places. Cat tree, sofa, spare room and boxes under my bed are placed you will find them. Unless it's winter and then most will be found stretched out on the upstairs carpet in the hall where the hot water pipe runs just under the floor!

@Nampoo sorry to hear that 😢
I'd never been a cat person until my daughter fetched our boy home when he was 8 weeks old and asked if we could keep him (a lady stopped her in the street and asked if she wanted him, the woman was on her way to dump him 😞) it took me a while to get used to him but he's the best cat ever! I love him more than the puppy 🙈 🤫

mine tend to sleep either under my bed or at the top of the stairs. we leave all the indoor doors open though so they have free reign and can let themselves out whenever they want.