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 🙈

Cat 1 sleeps on my daughter's bed. She has a special pillow next to her own pillow just for him.

Cat 2 sleeps on top of me, not beside me. He gets pissed off by me moving around and then goes to the chair.

Both of mine roam freely. Elderly cat usually sleeps in his basket. Younger cat joins me when I go to bed, leaves when I'm trying to fall asleep then sneaks back to sleep on my feet till morning.

Our two used to sleep on our bed all night, one at my feet and one between DH and I at shoulder level. Now that they're older, the small one is faddy;generally sleeps on the couch all night, but sometimes will sleep on our bed, or lately, on a folded blanket in the playroom. The other one sleeps all day and all night in a soft, low bed beside our bed because she can't jump any more. She gets out of it in the morning for food and a potter round the garden, then goes back in till her dinner. After dinner she goes back in till 10pm, when she accompanies DH to the bathroom to sit on his lap. Then she goes back to bed. She's like clockwork.

One will happily sleep on DH's feet all night.

The other one however will sleep under DS's duvet right up until the point I'm in a deep sleep, and then will march into my room and-

Scratch the carpet in a "I'm burying this large poo" type way
Climb on top of the wardrobe to try and get closer to the pictures he tries to knock off the wall
Climb onto the chest of drawers to knock the picture from the bottom
Climb into the sink.
Fall out of the sink
Annoy his sister so the growling reaches 30 decibels and she runs off
Attack DH
Climb up the curtains
Demand to be accompanied downstairs to have the full bowls of food and cat flap pointed out to him.

If Colin is in, I do lock him downstairs and he generally sleeps on his spot in the sofa. If he’s not in, he’s next door (In their bed 🙄)

[Flowers] Nampoo

My 3 are free to roam. Last night Dcat1 slept on (from the state of the hair) the inside lining of my boots, on the heated floor of the living room.

Dcat2 slept on my bed.

Dcat3 slept on DD1's bed, only DD1 came to sleep in with me at 2am (feeling unwell) and then Dcats 2 & 3 had a slight disagreement about the sleeping arrangements, and I said some bad words.

Our dcat has a bedtime routine. 🙄
10pm he meows for me to go to bed, he follows me into bed and I get a head boop.
He tries to trip DH up going down the stairs for his meat stick.
10.05pm he reappears upstairs, having had his meat stick. He insists on curling up behind my knees under the duvet.
He stays there until i am fully asleep, And goes to find DH, he lies with DH downstairs until DH decides to come to bed, usually midnight.
DH gets into bed and the cat gets into bed, And then out and then back in...

If the cat has got out of bed and wants to get back in but me and DH dare to be lying with 30cm of each other the cat headbuts us until we move.
It's a good job we love him 😂

One tries to sleep on my face but will compromise by sleeping on my shoulder. Other cat gets chased out of the bedroom but sleeps on the floor nearby.
Both have run of house and access to catflap so can come and go.

Mine sleeps in a bed on top of the kitchen cupboards. He likes being high. He is not allowed to wander the house at night as he is too loud.
I don’t know what he will do when he is too old for that huge jump up.

Ours is a rescue cat. She's not comfortable on a bed or the sofa (we think it may be that she's slept outside for so long that she prefers the floor) so we've bought her a cosy cat basket and she sleeps in that (in fact she's in it now). If she's not there she's under the radiator on the landing.

We keep the bedroom doors shut at night just because our cat has a habit of standing in the middle of the room miaowing to go out. If the door is shut she just seems to settle down until someone needs the loo in the night then she's miaowing again!

So she has the freedom of the house all day and the freedom of the house (minus the bedrooms) all night. Not a bad life considering she was found, flea bitten and pregnant, in a shed.

In his igloo
On the sofa
On the chaise
On the spare bed
On my head
On my pillow
Curled up next to me

Take your pick...

All our cats, throughout my whole life, have been shut in the kitchens downstairs. I thought that was what everyone did . They have always had access to the outside too via catflaps. All have been fit and healthy nocturnal animals, and sleep all day in the house on the beds.

Current cat is a nightmare hunter, so brings lots of dead (and alive) things in, which you wouldn't want upstairs or on a bed. Much easier to clean the smears and entrails from easy wipe kitchen floors.

I remember a couple of nights when I was young having forgotten to shut the cats out. Once I had a live pigeon in my room, feathers being methodically stripped and going everywhere, never quite got over that one, hate birds.... yukkk. And once I was woken by a mouse falling off the curtains on to my bed eeeekkkkkkk !!

In the kitchen and they have a big old duvet that we put out for them. They can go in and out through the cat flap if they want to go outside.

They have full run of the house during the day, but I put them in the kitchen at night because they tend to be more active at night and one cat in particular likes to go to every bedroom door scraping and miaowing and trying to wake us all up because he wants to play 🙄

Haha
These are funny.

Ours sleeps mostly on d's bed - spread out alongside him mostly. But also downstairs on couch/in dog baskrt/ on computer chair.

Our old cat liked to test all spots so alternated between beds, chairs, couches etc. But only in winter. In summer he would go out every night and roam!! The collapse into a comfortable spot to catch up on sleep during day!

Agree with OlderthanAverage about the dead stuff. Dh is often first to go downstairs in the morning and the shout of ‘Uuurgh..no!’ sends shivers up me. Also not a good idea to go in there barefoot either...

On my bed. She has her own blanket folded into a cosy nest on top of my duvet, down at the foot end. She’s very good about not disturbing me in the night.
She nips out to go hunting pre dawn, but very quietly - I often don’t wake until she comes back in, dumps her beaks, feet, heads and entrails on the kitchen floor tiles and heads upstairs at 8am to see if I’m coming down for breakfast!

One cat slept at the end of the bed until
The alarm goes off.
The other goes to bed with my ds until he goes to sleep, then she comes and sleeps on my head before going back into my sons bed before he wakes up. We both then believe she has slept in our bed all night. Clever cat!
Why do cats sleeps in your head? I often have a stiff neck but can't bring myself to move the cat!

Mine are shut in to kitchen/back room at night. It’s quite a big space, with toys, food/water & litter trays, & there’s a cat flap.

I used to lock the flap to in-only, but then the buggers discovered how to open it inwards with claws & ducked out that way, so I don’t bother now (even though it sometimes leads to presents in the morning)

I shut mine in the utility when I go to bed. Used to shut them in the kitchen before we had a utility.

I cannot bear them roaming around the house at night, pawing at my face while I'm trying to sleep. Also became a practical issue once DD was born because we coslept so obviously didn't want them on the bed with a baby or in her cot etc. Or them clawing at the carpet if we shut the door.

We've always done it. They have beds in there, food and water, a litter tray and scratch post. They're perfectly happy.

I’ve had cats all my life, as a child and as an adult. I’m in my early 40’s now. We have always treated cats as part of the family, they’ve had free run of the house. Our current cat sleeps with DH & I on our bed. Taking up 40% of the space (he is massive), whilst DH and I are pushed to the edges. Luckily it’s a super king bed

The only time one of our cats was ‘shut in the kitchen’ overnight was because he had dementia and used to roam the house, screaming at 3am. He was calmer in the kitchen overnight.

(& there’s a cat tree by the radiator, & a couple of beds which get used occasionally, & some small empty boxes which are the favoured sleeping places )

Like a PP, scratting at doors/carpets to get in at night is not at all welcome!

Normally spends most of the night kneading me and slobbering on my face. Last night she was licking my hair.

Our two go in the kitchen at night and sleep in their built-in cat beds that were put in when we had the kitchen done a couple of years ago. If they roam the house we hear them all the time (bells on collars) and they jump on us/the DC. They have food, water, litter tray and access to the outside so are absolutely fine. First person down in the morning lets them out, they then tear upstairs to get on a bed/warm person ASAP :)

ours go to bed when we do they both sleep at the foot of the bed

Ours gets shut in the kitchen/living space. At around 10pm she takes herself off to the top of the kitchen cupboard and goes to sleep! I don't think I could cope with her roaming and jumping on my head in the middle of the night!